The ruling is expected to have a profound impact on the EPA’s ability to protect the public from pollution, and the Tucson dispute highlights the high stakes in such scenarios – clean drinking water and the health of hundreds of thousands of people hangs in the balance.
Several air force bases are largely responsible for trichloroethylene (TCE) – volatile organic compounds – and PFAS contaminating drinking water sources in Tucson. A 10-sq-mile (26 sq km) area around the facilities and Tucson international airport were in the 1980s designated as a Superfund site, an action reserved for the nation’s most polluted areas.
Oh, cool. Not only is it a way to avoid corporate accountability, it’s a way for our government to slip accountability too. Thanks, SCOTUS! I’m certain this is exactly what the founders had in mind, a totally unaccountable government that gets to pick winners and make them totally unaccountable too.