http://www.tcwn.org/blog/2008/12/230/ News and updates from the Tennessee Clean Water Network Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:10:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 http://www.tcwn.org/blog/2008/12/230/#comment-361 chemguy1 Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:15:21 +0000 http://www.tcwn.org/blog/?p=230#comment-361 Given the abominable way in which the EPA has bowed to the will of President Bush in allowing more and more lax regulations on such an incredibly toxic waste product as fly ash; given that organizations such as the TVA will always take every advantage of such loose regulations and hide behind the weak and ethically unsupportable excuse of "complying with all current regulations", whether morally acceptable or not; and given that the bottom line in both government and business is money, and nothing else, I can only hope that even now, armies of lawyers are lining up to sue for tremendous sums both the EPA and the TVA for allowing this tragic, but all too predictable situation to develop. Only when the economic penalties of such irresponsible behavior are severe and certain will corporate America and its government puppets fulfill what should be their moral obligations. I say "should be" because to those without any ethics except what increases their wealth, there are no morals, no responsibility to the public, and no respect of the natural world. There is only profit, and only by the threat of removing that profit can change be forced upon them. Given the abominable way in which the EPA has bowed to the will of President Bush in allowing more and more lax regulations on such an incredibly toxic waste product as fly ash; given that organizations such as the TVA will always take every advantage of such loose regulations and hide behind the weak and ethically unsupportable excuse of “complying with all current regulations”, whether morally acceptable or not; and given that the bottom line in both government and business is money, and nothing else, I can only hope that even now, armies of lawyers are lining up to sue for tremendous sums both the EPA and the TVA for allowing this tragic, but all too predictable situation to develop. Only when the economic penalties of such irresponsible behavior are severe and certain will corporate America and its government puppets fulfill what should be their moral obligations. I say “should be” because to those without any ethics except what increases their wealth, there are no morals, no responsibility to the public, and no respect of the natural world. There is only profit, and only by the threat of removing that profit can change be forced upon them.

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