• SolacefromSilence@fedia.io
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    10 months ago

    It’s interesting that their water treatment district in literally fighting to do the least they can. It’s not that way everywhere.

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      10 months ago

      Maybe I’m missing something, but why are they? If it’s public money where’s the profit (the reason everyone else lobbied for it) in doing minimum-possible-effort?

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        10 months ago

        They didn’t want to stump up the cash for the fines & other costs.

        But there was nothing progressive about the fines the city was racking up: San Francisco’s Supreme Court win negates proposed EPA penalties in the hundreds of millions of dollars and mandatory sewer system upgrades that would cost billions and billions.