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Maule Driver wrote:
Air and water quality was going downhill thru the 60s and early 70s. I
remember the smell walking to school in Pgh and the water quality of the
3 rivers thru the 60s and 70s. I played on the strip mined landscape.
Things were the same from Cleveland to NJ.

And things in Pittsburgh are still pretty much the same. The smog is
pretty much gone because so are the steel mills. The rivers are still
dirty and active strip mines are still very prevalent.

The reality is that corporate greed is a very good thing when it's
tempered with responsibility. The net effect of environmental laws is
that cost rise for the business, workers lose their jobs, cost of goods
increases (people can afford less), and when coupled with mismanagement,
all of this often results in corporate bankruptcy. Unfortunately, many
environmental laws are based on junk science or data that has not be
proven as fact. There are many laws which are based on fear and,
unfortunately, those laws have the same negative effect on business and
personal wealth as any laws or regulations based on valid proven data.


JKG