Monday 8 May 2017

Roundup of bad environmental bills permeating the General Assembly

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Taft Wireback fills in the details:

Changes afoot in the Republican-controlled legislature would limit local governments’ power to create buffer zones beside streams, shield agribusinesses from high damage awards in certain types of lawsuits and fully endorse a new landfill technology that some consider iffy.

Other proposals still under consideration as the session moves into its second half include restrictions on wind-farm development, efforts to roll back state support for solar power and the repeal of a regional ban on plastic grocery bags aimed at protecting sea turtles.

To say I've grown tired of having to post these things every single year since 2011 is a gross understatement. And for every pollution-loving jackass Republican who retires from the Legislature, it seems like two new ones step forward to take his place. And the two sides of this coin couldn't be more different:


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