Project 2025, the lengthy document spearheaded by the Heritage Foundation to lay out plans for the “conservative president” they expect to be elected this year, would gut the Environmental Protection Agency, sending most of those responsibilities to state and local governments who could then ignore the impacts of their industries on the public and the planet, starting with a Day One Executive Order and political appointees (pp. 422-3).
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Joanne Corey 
On Cape Cod, the EPA just denied Holtec from their plan to dump the nuclear waste from decommissioned Pilgrim into the bay. Holtec’s claim is that the waste is “safe” (um, no). The EPA disagrees. If Project 2025 comes to pass, here comes the waste, and there goes the marine life. Not to mention the affect it would have on humans. Most of the beaches out that way have been closed most of the summer, due to contamination.
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Exactly the problem. Some states can and do let companies get away with all manner of pollution and need the federal government to step in to protect people and the environment. It’s never okay to cause harm to your own residents, but many of these contaminants affect people and the biosphere over a much larger area, compounding the problem of not having national regulation/enforcement.
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I took a class in Environmental Law one year, and some of the cases we were studied were about people using poisons on their own property that then contaminate beyond. It’s so important.
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How interesting that you took a course in environmental law! I appreciate all the lawyers who helped us in our fight against fracking. Contaminants spreading beyond a property were definitely at play in that endeavor.
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