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Environment & Energy

JDPriestly

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1. Big business moved the pollution to China and Korea.

Reply to octoberlib (Original post)

Thu Dec 13, 2012, 03:06 AM

Dec 2012

There is a good side and a bad side to that.

I would like to think that the EPA really cleaned things up, but I'm not sure that the cleaner air is just due to the EPA.

We simply exported a lot of the dirtiest industries -- and the good jobs along with them.

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What Moves Conservatives On The Environment? Show Them Pictures Of What Happens Without The EPA [View all] octoberlib Dec 2012 OP

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