Re: Environmentalism & the US Constitution

[RuthWeiner@AOL.COM]

Let's not throw the proverbial baby out with the bathwater.  "Environmentalism" is not a synonym for "junk science" (or for "anti-nuke").  The constitutionality of NEPA, the Clean Air Act, RCRA,  the hazardous waste amendments to RCRA,  the Endangered Species Act, the Wilderness Act, and the National Parks Act(among other laws) has been tested and established.  Moreover, they are good laws, in my opinion; what is usually objectionable is some application of some of these laws or some regulations passed under the aegis of these laws, not the law itself.



The fundamental aim of the environmental movement is protection and preservation of public natural resources, including air and water.  Of course industries in the private sector often object to pollution control (though they do so much less now than 30 years ago when some of these laws were enacted); pollution control costs money.  But they didn't do it on their own, as they might have, so the government had to.  That's one of the purposes of government.



Ruth



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