It is reported that a plant in a small town is in voilation of the enviromenal laws. If you enforce the laws the plant will be shut down. The plant is the major sourse of employment for the town. It's closer would kill the town. Should the fact play a role in regulatory enforcement?
2007-02-26 12:02:12 · 4 answers · asked by doughboy0022000 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
EPA does have programs that include grants to help in these situations. Unless the threat to life was immediate, the facility would have time to bring their operation up to standards. The standards however are getting so strict that some companies are facing problems where the cost of compliance is greater than the worth of the facility and a business decision must be made. Do a web search for "Liberty Denim" in SC to see a current case of this.
2007-02-26 19:41:53 · answer #1 · answered by Peter Boiter Woods 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yeah you should because pollution is much larger than the plight of a little town which could be alleviated by some job intervention. Plants will operate dirty until someone makes them work clean and threats of shutting down is just extortion and that means enforce the Clean Air and Clean Water Act. People with a financial interest in maintaining pollution spend money to create the myth that pollution is not so bad after all (of course the people who make the money don't live there). Its not a political issue either, at least not partisan so there is no Bush villain here. The two most active Senators in keeping the Clean Air and Clean Water Act from being enforced are Rockefeller and Byrd of WV. They are supposed to be liberals and ecologists think the Dem Party is their party but these two guys and some other Dems in the industrial sections keep obtaining waivers (for about twenty years now) to keep those laws from being enforced. Shut the plant down, re educate the workers, do something other than smother the people who live downwind...who have kids and rights too.
2007-02-26 12:11:13 · answer #2 · answered by Tom W 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unless the violation poses immediate danger (in which it must be shut down because it would harm the community environment), warnings are issued to the company. The company does have time to fix it
2007-02-26 12:09:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Too bad, they are in violation and its employees will figure something out. It's happened in small towns all across this country.
2007-02-26 12:06:02 · answer #4 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋