[jazusamo]

A good start would be to fire every EPA bureaucrat connected to this, don't fill their positions and use the money saved for clean up.

[jacknhoo]

Excellent reason to privatize the EPA. Can you imagine, the communist heading it up now, would be fired immediately.

[Sacajaweau]

It’ll never be clean again....heavy metals don’t clean up.

[Old Sarge]

And all that water’s going to be sucked up by (wait for it) CALIFORNIA!

[Oldeconomybuyer]

SHUT DOWN THE EPA.

States are perfectly capable of managing environmental issues. Interstate disputes can be resolve at the federal level.

[omega4412]

What struck me about the Tuesday AM NPR story about this was the way the EPA statements minimized the potential environmental effects of the spill. Compare to (1) statements about the coal ash spills in the Southeast, (2) what the EPA will say when some private mining company releases massive amounts of muck into some river.

[dfwgator]

Bet this is the guy the EPA sent over there.

[I want the USA back]

Sovereign immunity. Sorry, but we do not have a sovereign. We have a constitutional republic. That principle is invalid.

[Leaning Right]

A good start would be to fire every EPA bureaucrat connected to this

Yep. But it's way more likely no one will be fired. However, for PR purposes annual bonuses might be delayed. Not eliminated, just delayed.

[jazusamo]

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[GreyFriar]

firing those responsible should be done, but they’ll probably get job performance bonsuses.

[Lazamataz]

The EPA has done more environmental damage, with this one move, than any number of industries they harass.

The good news is it is in California. With the exception of Fresno, where Jim lives... eff that entire state.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Are there no state laws against polluting rivers with heavy metals? Fine the polluters individually under state regulations and arrest them if they won’t pay. Go after the apparatchiks and jam the gears of the whole organization.

[RckyRaCoCo]

“...diplomatic immunity”(Lethal Weapon 2)

[blackdog]

"“Sovereign immunity. The government doesn’t fine itself,” said Thomas L. Sansonetti, former assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s division of environment and natural resource. "

Yes, but states and communities can sue the EPA, which exhibited gross misconduct and incompetence. Next comes the cover-up part where people should go to jail.

[EXCH54FE]

It is time to Abolish the IRS, the EPA set term limits for our congress critters. (without any retirement $$$)

[SampleMan]

Actually, Federal courts fine states and municipalities all the time.

[Big Red Clay]

I was listening to Mark Levin last night on my old school, handy dandy headphone radio while I mowed my lawn. I heard the every half hour ABC news report three times. The spill was the lead story each time and they were all excited about how bad it was. They did not, however, mention even once that the EPA was responsible. It was like it just sorta happened. I assume they think that the LIV will likely mentally blame it on the horrible mine owners or something.

The fix is in.

[onedoug]

No personal responsibility either.

[dfwgator]

Trump needs to get in front of this. No other politicians are talking about it.

[Let's Roll]

Bump