Indiana to continue to allow BP to pollute Lake Michigan with mercury.

[Moostache]

4. I grew up on those shores.

I am so filled with rage over this bullshit that I can hardly see straight.
The lakeshore is a treasure and the southern shores of Lake Michigan had (past tense) the best fresh water beaches in North America in my opinion. The waters would warm into the low 70's in August and the shores along stretches where I grew up had white sand beaches and also featured Coho Salmon and Lake Perch fishing.

The pollution allowed into the lake from both the refineries in Indiana and Cook nuclear plant threatening the lake's very viable existence in Michigan and the Zebra Mussel infestation that resulted in clearer water at a terrible price to the lake's overall ecology.

I hate corporate greed almost as much as I hate the people who profit from it and blithely turn a blind eye to the collateral damage they cause. The federal government should have jurisdiction in all cases where inequitable impact affects the natural resources of the country - such as Indiana allowing pollution to the entire lake while holding the smallest shoreline.