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The recent canning of Mary Gade, regional administrator of U.S. EPA Region 5, for merely following the letter of the law regarding DOW Chemical's dioxin pollution is so sick - a settlement had been adjucated years before, Dow has dragged its feet while earning profits, and Gade was just getting the actions and remedies enforced...
all just one example of coddling industry that is the MO of this dying breed of careless and incompetent administration. The idea of regulation is a two-fisted sword - either a valuable part of a civil economic operation or one that uses the possibilities opened up by further confounding the public to exploit agendas of corporate and dynastic greed