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Category: Business and Industry
Date Submitted: 10/09/2016 07:01 PM
Matthew Warmus
ICS 392: Dr. Mathys
Environmental Impact Report (#1)
Source #1: Downstream From a Slippery EPA (By Ryan Flynn)
This article in particular speaks to the negligence of the EPA and how their lack of communication amongst their subgroups promotes unjust and negligent practices. In this particular article the EPA ignored a hazardous leakage of lead into the Animas river which is a vital source of fresh water for residents and farmers alike. The level of lead pollution in the water supply “screamed past maximum contaminant levels for drinking water” and the EPA’s use of “minimization and misdirection” made it so the surrounding residents that their water was indeed safe for consumption. This was very obviously not the case and the EPA may very well have endangered the lives of the residents in the area due to the now known extremely high lead content in the water supply which they had failed to properly report. The EPA could have coordinated amongst themselves in an effective and professional manner to have been able to do their job properly and ensure the health and safety of the residents and environment alike. They did not do this whatsoever and the consequences for the residents new the Animas river and the surrounding environment will be severe in the future.
Source #2: The Feds Go Turbo (Wall Street Journal)
This article by the WSJ examines the new energy efficiency rules applied to consumer products such as washing machines, water heaters, and refrigerators and how these regulations are drastically increasing the costs for producers and consumers alike. These new regulations produced by the Department Of Energy (DOE) have “imposed more than $8 billion in annual costs”. These costs and regulations do not accomplish what they were initially supposed to. The federally required cost benefit analyses shows that the “social benefits” on reducing Carbon emissions is virtually non-existent, therefore the opportunity cost of forcing such...