They should really get back to the science of pollution and how to save lives -- not the politics of pseudo-populist Louisiana politicians blocking regulations to protect the funding they receive from cancer-causing killer companies.
I think the fair thing to do is for all these companies' CEOs and other executive officers live in a dorm built by their plants. Not their families just them. And when ever a member of congress who is pro cancer goes home they also have to live there. Their days would be spent standing outside doing deep breathing exercises in the hot sun with no water breaks. After all conservatives feel anyone should be able to work in the hot sun without water so why shouldn't they?
Baton Rouge is so close to that you can smell it. The muni water is so bad you can taste it. But the money is so sweet you can buy milled soap and drink bottled water.
probably need to review what Clay has arrested/charged people with in the past. he doesn't seem to have an entirely lucid reality-based grasp on how the law works.
though i guess maybe he just saw a black person and immediately assumed guilt on all manner of charges. i know i know. a reeeeeeal stretch coming from a southern cop. 😂
Note to Jason Hutt, well-known douche-nozzle: if Denka had started cleaning up their shit when they were first told to, they could probably be in compliance by now, and there would be zero job losses...
I used to have to drive west for 20 miles on the River Road between LaPlace, LA and Grammercy, LA, just to take the bridge across the Mississippi River at Grammercy and then drive back 10 miles east towards Edgard, LA, where there was a branch library I supported. I had to do this whenever the ferry to Edgard was out of service, which was often. Somewhere along the River Road between LaPlace and the bridge is a small community right on the River with some kind of enormous chemical plant in it - I don't remember the name of the plant. My point is that as you approached this little town, the entire road, all the trees, all the houses, all the roofs and all the yards were covered with orange dust, and you could tell it had been there for years. There is a school there, and the playground was covered with this dust. You couldn't miss it. I don't know who lives in that little town, but I suspect they are not very healthy.
Then there was the day when I got to work at the main library in LaPlace and discovered that the water in the toilets was a kind of brownish-yellow. I reported this to the Director, who called the Parish water department, who said "Oh, yeah, something's wrong with our water treatment plant, we were going to notify everyone not to drink the water but we just haven't had time to do it yet." We had to disable all the water fountains in all four library branches and warn the employees not to use the tap water in the staff lounges. The water stayed brownish-yellow for several days. If I could have afforded it, I would have sent some of that water off for testing myself, just out of curiosity to find out what the hell was in it.
Maybe a couple of billion dollar lawsuits would improve compliance. Denka knows their plant is spreading dangerous emissions across that area and putting people at risk. The EPA would s not just sitting in back rooms coming up with ideas to bankrupt companies with false science. So where is their data showing the air around their plant is not loaded with cancer causing chemicals, or that cancer rates in that region are not among the highest in the US. The EPA has data backing up their conclusions but it sounds like all Denka has is "it's not" but no data. Other than possibly trying yo convince people that those chemicals in the air are naturally occurring.
This was something Duke Power tried to do about elevated arsenic and heavy metal pollution in ground water near their coal ash dumps in North Carolina. And where the Republican governor in 2013 refused to apply for a federal grant that all you needed to do was apply, used to drill test water wells in those regions to see if it was background contamination or seepage if water wells in the area suddenly showed contamination over the next few years. Because with no historic testing it's harder to prove a new source is the cause. To which the governor said if he thought we needed those wells we could pay for them ourselves, though the state was still facing budget problems caused partially by cuts in the income tax rate for corporations that were polluting the ground water. Thus no wells were drilled.
There's a water-skiing wing of my family, whose entire Spring to Fall identity is wetsuits and beer koozies.
Yosemite Sam wants his act back
Good thing for Higgins that his Thesaurus suggested "arrogant" when he wrote "uppity."
They should really get back to the science of pollution and how to save lives -- not the politics of pseudo-populist Louisiana politicians blocking regulations to protect the funding they receive from cancer-causing killer companies.
Whada ya mean I can't build my outhouse uphill from your water well?
I think the fair thing to do is for all these companies' CEOs and other executive officers live in a dorm built by their plants. Not their families just them. And when ever a member of congress who is pro cancer goes home they also have to live there. Their days would be spent standing outside doing deep breathing exercises in the hot sun with no water breaks. After all conservatives feel anyone should be able to work in the hot sun without water so why shouldn't they?
Baton Rouge is so close to that you can smell it. The muni water is so bad you can taste it. But the money is so sweet you can buy milled soap and drink bottled water.
probably need to review what Clay has arrested/charged people with in the past. he doesn't seem to have an entirely lucid reality-based grasp on how the law works.
though i guess maybe he just saw a black person and immediately assumed guilt on all manner of charges. i know i know. a reeeeeeal stretch coming from a southern cop. 😂
Ta, Dok.
What Higgins needs is a night in the box.
At least he didn’t Regan “uppity.”
Note to Jason Hutt, well-known douche-nozzle: if Denka had started cleaning up their shit when they were first told to, they could probably be in compliance by now, and there would be zero job losses...
"Rep. Clay Higgins (R-Louisiana), the nastiest thing to come out of Louisiana since the state’s petrochemical industry,"
The diminutive Speaker Mike Johnson has entered the chat.
What a horrible human being Clay Higgins is!
I used to have to drive west for 20 miles on the River Road between LaPlace, LA and Grammercy, LA, just to take the bridge across the Mississippi River at Grammercy and then drive back 10 miles east towards Edgard, LA, where there was a branch library I supported. I had to do this whenever the ferry to Edgard was out of service, which was often. Somewhere along the River Road between LaPlace and the bridge is a small community right on the River with some kind of enormous chemical plant in it - I don't remember the name of the plant. My point is that as you approached this little town, the entire road, all the trees, all the houses, all the roofs and all the yards were covered with orange dust, and you could tell it had been there for years. There is a school there, and the playground was covered with this dust. You couldn't miss it. I don't know who lives in that little town, but I suspect they are not very healthy.
Then there was the day when I got to work at the main library in LaPlace and discovered that the water in the toilets was a kind of brownish-yellow. I reported this to the Director, who called the Parish water department, who said "Oh, yeah, something's wrong with our water treatment plant, we were going to notify everyone not to drink the water but we just haven't had time to do it yet." We had to disable all the water fountains in all four library branches and warn the employees not to use the tap water in the staff lounges. The water stayed brownish-yellow for several days. If I could have afforded it, I would have sent some of that water off for testing myself, just out of curiosity to find out what the hell was in it.
Maybe a couple of billion dollar lawsuits would improve compliance. Denka knows their plant is spreading dangerous emissions across that area and putting people at risk. The EPA would s not just sitting in back rooms coming up with ideas to bankrupt companies with false science. So where is their data showing the air around their plant is not loaded with cancer causing chemicals, or that cancer rates in that region are not among the highest in the US. The EPA has data backing up their conclusions but it sounds like all Denka has is "it's not" but no data. Other than possibly trying yo convince people that those chemicals in the air are naturally occurring.
This was something Duke Power tried to do about elevated arsenic and heavy metal pollution in ground water near their coal ash dumps in North Carolina. And where the Republican governor in 2013 refused to apply for a federal grant that all you needed to do was apply, used to drill test water wells in those regions to see if it was background contamination or seepage if water wells in the area suddenly showed contamination over the next few years. Because with no historic testing it's harder to prove a new source is the cause. To which the governor said if he thought we needed those wells we could pay for them ourselves, though the state was still facing budget problems caused partially by cuts in the income tax rate for corporations that were polluting the ground water. Thus no wells were drilled.