The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency is merely a disguise for Ohio polluters and it's time for the state legislature to step in and give it a new purpose: protecting the environment rather than protecting the polluters.
The shake-out of AEP's recent loss of a lawsuit over the company's air-pollution practices, filed in 1999, revealed that OEPA never got involved because it was supposedly too busy with other matters. Eight other states brought - and recently won - the suit against the nation's Number One polluting state, namely ours.
The astonishing facts were reported a few days ago by the Cincinnati Post. However, the article is no longer available at the Post web site, so I have archived it here.
Business as usual in Ohio, and so far there has been no major reaction, no demands to clean up the OEPA, no grandstanding politicians jumping all over this incredible breakdown in government fulfilling its purpose for being.
Apparently, AEP and other polluters are major shareholders in Ohio government. Until state legislators get off the "take" there will be no challenge by OEPA to our Number One rank for toxic air emissions.
Sunday, October 14, 2007
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