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Lawmakers dismantle water quality standards (0.00 / 0)

Ry Rivard reports on a very troubling action in the State Senate yesterday, http://www.dailymail.com/News/statehouse/201102071428
Senators gutted a compromise bill that would have helped reduce pollution in the Greenbrier River.

Meanwhile nearby Lewisburg is about to be voted one of the Coolest Small Towns in America (vote here), but State Senators are voting to allow pollution to keep flowing into the river.

ARGHHH!!!

In a good conversation everyone speaks.  In a great conversation some even listen.

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by: Wabi-Sabi @ Tue Feb 08, 2011 at 23:55:39 PM UTC

seen on Twitter (4.00 / 3)

The tweet of Ry Rivard's story came right in the middle of tweets recording a speech by head of EPA:

RT @SierraClubLive: @lisapjackson @epagov: Clean Air Act amounts to 40 times the benefits than cost of regulation. EPA knows how to get roi. #gjgj2011

RT @SierraClubLive: @lisapjackson @epagov: Environmental protection has created more than 1.7 million jobs. #gjgj2011

RT @abetterwv: Lawmakers Dismantle Water Quality Standards | http://is.gd/gCx52i via @charleywest, by @ryrivard #wvleg

RT @SierraClubLive: @lisapjackson @epagov: It is critical that we have a modern environmental infrastructure to protect clean water and clean air #gjgj2011

When will our legislators learn: you can't drink natural gas and you can't eat coal.

Clean water is at least as important a natural resource, but one that needs vigilant protection. It is so easy for one person company to spoil another person's well.

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by: Clem Guttata @ Wed Feb 09, 2011 at 11:53:35 AM UTC

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I don't understand this comment from Helmick. (4.00 / 1)

I assume the legislators from that area will push the state to pay for it," he said.

The Greenbrier runs through his district.  It's been so long since he's been there he's forgotten.

The article says the algae is mainly from treatment plants.  There has always been a lot of string algae where the creek from the Greenbrier golf course comes in.  I didn't start seeing it north of there until Snowshoe put their course in.

Does anyone remember the tannery leak in Marlington?  Wasn't Joe Manchin part owner?

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by: MadAnne @ Wed Feb 09, 2011 at 02:25:49 AM UTC