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I can only assume you live near an estuary. Do you really believe that water pollution is only a problem to be handled by people who are downstream and not a s

• rayiner 6y ago
  I live on the Chesapeake Bay, the country’s largest estuary. (I’m staring out my window at the water right now.) Of course I believe that water pollution is a shared responsibility—much of the silt in the Bay comes from agricultural operations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. But the EPA continues to push along NY/NJ/PA into meeting their 2025 TMDL targets for run-off into the Bay. Phosphorus and nitrogen from agricultural activities is the archetypal example of something that must be regulated at the federal level, and Wheeler doesn’t deny it. (There is an ongoing spat about whether the TMDLs are directly enforceable against the states, but the EPA’s current position was formulated during the Obama administration.) But what doesn’t come floating down the river is perchlorate. Accepting that the EPA must regulate certain types of water pollution doesn’t mean that all water pollution must be regulated at the federal level.
• naasking 6y ago
  > Do you really believe that water pollution is only a problem to be handled by people who are downstream and not a shared responsibility? That's not what he said. He said perchlorate pollution in water does not necessitate national regulation given the data. That says nothing about other chemicals which may disperse more widely or whose use is so common as to contaminate many water systems.