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You figure out a way to block agricultural runoff at it's source without bankrupting the ag industry or quadrupling food prices let us know. Your next trick wil
by forgetfreeman 3y ago
You figure out a way to block agricultural runoff at it's source without bankrupting the ag industry or quadrupling food prices let us know. Your next trick will be to figure out a way to pass meaningful legislation in the current climate of extreme political polarization, but one miracle at a time.
- ttyprintk 3y agoWe can be more optimistic than that. The clean water act aspired to make all waterways fishable and swimmable by 1983, with carveouts for non-point-source pollution like lawns and fields. Meat producing plants take advantage of that carveout in a particular way. But to achieve the swimmable and fishable goal, the EPA needs to be able to affect any upstream point source. The groups lobbying against this are well financed but they are fighting against existing law.
- forgetfreeman 3y agoAnd winning. Fun Fact: the eastern third of North Carolina is blanketed in a thin film of aerosolized pig shit.