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Obviously every state should build their own parallel monitoring program with its own duplicated bureaucracy and time spent developing regulations. Because obvi
by btown 10y ago
Obviously every state should build their own parallel monitoring program with its own duplicated bureaucracy and time spent developing regulations. Because obviously people in New York and people in Alabama have different levels of plastic tolerance. Heck, I hear people in Alaska like plastic in their fish! Why are we taking away their rights?
- twobyfour 10y agoFurthermore, what happens when the wind blows pollution from one state across state lines into another? Does Louisiana get a say in what Iowa dumps into the Mississippi? And gee, it's not like anything dumped into the ocean in one place ever comes out in another, does it?
- true_religion 10y agoForeign products arrive in a country at specific locations---most likely large seaports. Impounding and stamping these products as having X standard or Y standard isn't very different if the standards body is the singular federal government, or applying 5-10 different standards levied by states. Also, even if there is a federal standard, the states themselves are always free to set greater limitations---for example federal emissions controls on cars, versus California emission controls.
- adventured 10y agoWell, in fact each state would and does need a parallel monitoring program, which inevitably would come with some duplicated bureaucracy. You can mostly skip the duplicated regulation process however. How are you planning to interface with people in each state, in regards to community and business, as it pertains to policy changes and dozens of other scenarios (some of which may be limited to just a few states based on industry and environment)? There's no scenario under which you don't need to have parallel monitoring for every state.