Ditto, relevantly these days, for the F.D.A. is a large bureaucracy, even though conceived with excellent intentions. Without that, the direction will not change. It takes constant focus, pressure, and competency. Changing huge bureaucracies, public or private, is like turning an aircraft carrier: you can't hang a U even if the order to do so is given. Reagan made that an issue, but neither he nor subsequent Presidents of both parties did much of anything about it. Not all those who voted for Trump were racists, misogynists, and homophobes, let alone "deplorbles." For lots of people, his rhetoric about the Washington "swamp" resonated, an issue that transcended Administrations. All the while the California Attorney General stonewalled discovery in that Federal caseįinally an obscure Federal judge agreed to handle the case, and it "confidentially settled" with the fracking continuing non-stop The case was so "politically hot to handle" that multiple US District Court Judges in 3 different California cities recused (disqualified) themselves and refused to hear the case. The plaintiffs lawyers bringing that case on behalf of an orchard owner whose well had been contaminated by fracking chemicals was the same law firm leading the Porter Ranch caseīrown refused to defend himself with private counsel and a certain California Attorney General aggressively defended Brown and the state There has been a whole lot of skullduggery involving California's oil and gas regulator "DOGGR" and the California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) at the top employee/political appointee level on that fracking issueĭuring same time frame as the Porter Ranch gas field controversy during the Second Jerry Brown Administration, Brown was personally sued under Civil RICO for all sorts of shenanigans at the top of DOGGR and DTSC relating to that rampant fracking without permits or proper scientific analysis of fracking chemicals in underground water used to water agricultural products and provide potable water It's been going on just about as long as fracking in Texas Its worth noting that extensive fracking goes on in California's San Joaquin Valley. Our government is worthless when it comes to fighting pollution. Zug Island is still in operation and still privately owned by industrial America! "Zug Island is a highly guarded, smoke- and steam-belching, fire-spewing wasteland" No one cleaned up the identified sites in the end. It relied on funding collected from the polluters, most of which had already gone bankrupt or otherwise ran off with the money. The Green superfund waste site project failed. I could see finished buildings further into the property before I got kicked off and massive piles of, not sand or gravel, but stuff that looked like natural material, possibly fertilizer or basic chemicals. Barges carrying iron ore, coal, coke, cement materials, lime and other shipments had it unloaded in massive piles on the ground there for loading on trains and trucks. Zug Island, an artificial island carved off the coast of the Detroit River for heavy industrial use. With Michigan coming out of the automobile production industrial age, we had more than our fair share in both the top ten and the top twenty.Īs a weirdo, I decided to visit one. When I was growing up, Greens identified "superfund waste sites" targeted for environmental cleanup.
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