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