re: #493 thedopefishlives

No, no they don’t. Anyone who says, “We were getting along just fine before the EPA,” is full of crap. It may be ignorance, but it’s still crap.

I’m careful about dumping on corporations and hazardous waste at times. Partially due to knowledge about some chemicals being lacking for a long time (PCPs being one.) And also due to the fact that some corporations inherited contaminated land by purchase that they had not contaminated themselves. And they got sued at a later point due to being the ones with the “deep pockets”.*

Though there is also a great deal of abuse out there as well. A lot of guilt, but I’m not in the “all corporations are evil by default ” club.

* - Corporation my father worked for bought site in the 50’s that had old transformers on it (PCPs). Site was sold in the early 70’s with the transformers still there; e.g. corporation did not disturb them, or add to them, and had no scientific knowledge at the time that they were dangerous. Corporation was sued for clean-up costs in the 80s (with my father called on to submit a deposition.)