Should private industry be left alone to extract energy from our land and seas in the cheapest, dirtiest, riskiest, most life-threatening ways in order to save a few bucks here and there to maximize profits for investors?
The Philadelphia Inquirer just published an amazing series on the deliberate dismantling of the Environmental Protection Agency by the Bush Administration.
In good faith, they probably thought they would prove the economic superiority of deregulation by giving free rein to energy producers. Instead, we have a string of disasters and environmental catastrophes in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Texas, and the whole Gulf Coast.
Click here for very compelling reading - especially since we've had a string of accidents and contaminated water sources in Pennsylvania:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/special/36110664.html
