Some years ago Sen Pat Toomey spoke at Penn’s Peak. You might remember me; I was the one sitting in the audience with my back to the podium.
Toomey talked of the fun he had rafting on the Lehigh, a major tourist draw in Carbon County. My Dad and I also rafted on the Lehigh in the 50s. We put in at the Jim Thorpe Market. As we went past the Railroad Station, an outflow pipe was dumping raw sewage into the river. It was not pleasant.
Now we have an EPA chief whose main goal is to try and eliminate the EPA. Nixon did a lot of bad things, but ever since his administration, the EPA has worked, not always successfully, to protect us against air and water pollution and examine the environmental impacts of projects and developments. It is hard to imagine the type of environmental degradation that will result when the EPA is defanged.
Toomey, so-called Republican moderate and Lehigh River rafter, voted to confirm Scott Pruitt.
I can remember when the Lehigh River flowed black as coal, because it was coal residue in the river. There really wasn't any fish worthwhile catching. A sad situation that has finally been reversed over time. Now the republicans in congress just voted to allow coal mining companies to dump their waste in rivers and streams. republicans like to talk the talk but don't walk the walk.
ReplyDeleteI know. I can hardly stand it.
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