Boehner’s response to West Virginia’s chemical spill: “We have enough regulations”
Source: Salon
"What the administration ought to be doing is their jobs," the House Speaker commented Tuesday
LINDSAY ABRAMS
The leak of a toxic chemical from a West Virginia coal processing plant into the state’s water system unleashed an onslaught of commentary calling for increased government regulation and industry oversight. As Randy Huffman, secretary of the state’s Department of Environmental Protection, predicted in the spill’s aftermath: “I think a lot of folks will be calling for legislation and rightly so.”
“Somebody ought to be held accountable here,” agreed House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. In his opinion, however, that somebody is the Obama administration.
“We have enough regulations on the books,” Boehner commented at a press conference Tuesday. “What the administration ought to be doing is their jobs. Why was this plant not inspected since 1991?”
(The answer, Climate Progress notes, is that a loophole in West Virginia’s regulations makes it so that inspections weren’t required by law.)
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2014/01/14/boehners_response_to_west_virginias_chemical_spill_we_have_enough_regulations/
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Using taxpayer money? I see, privatize the profit, socialize the risk. Yeah, I read that book, too.
Asshole. 