There go those blasted "enviro-whackos" again !!
I mean: What the hey ?? It's only a little industrial run-off, isn't it ?
Don't worry ! Be happy !
The CATO Institute, and the Competitive Enterprise Institute will come with some suitable sound bytes before you know it !"
I will.
The plant I work in has serious TCE contamination underground from when it was used in the 1960-70 period--when its dangers were not well understood. The TCE was dumped on the ground and doing this was perfectly legal at the time and not understood to be a danger.
I call this "retroactive regulation", i.e., holding the guy in 1958 responsible for 2002 environmental regs.
A sane society would remediate and stop trying to put people in prison who had no part of causing the problem.
If you think this is the way to proceed, take a look at what has been wrought upon innocents by the "superfund" laws.
--Boris