This is the kind of thing that made me decide to never have children of my own, almost 50-years ago. You just cannot keep adding new people to the planet, plus offering them higher standards of living and not have stuff like this going on. The pendulum is certainly swinging back now after a few decades of trying to make air, water, food and working condition safer, now the gov't is just saying, "Aw, screw-it... all those rules were just too much trouble. Just do whatever you want." I have no kids or grands to worry about but it breaks my heart to see things like this happening... for the animals.

WTF

The entire fracked oil system is riddled with criminally negligent pollution and health endangerment, which affects communities. Nothing good can be said for the way it continues without oversight in regard to being hazardous material, and yet is handled as if by-products are safe. Not so!

My wife was an investigative reporter on the environmental beat in the 90s, and don't get her started on the dismantling of the EPA and the ruination of much of the progress made on environmental matters over many decades. Corporate 'Murica has always opposed environmental responsibility as too expensive and burdensome.

And hell, we haven't even factored climate change into the discussion yet.