Tuesday, April 19, 2011

Florida Republicans gut evironmental laws

As the heading says...apparently 100s of empty houses and unleased strip malls just isnt enough waste for some politicians.


One proposal, HB 613/SB 796, would allow South Florida governments discharging sewage into the Atlantic to continue doing so until 2023, extending a Dec. 31, 2018 deadline by five years. The bill has already passed the House and is in its final committee stop in the Senate.
Another, HB 13/SB 1698, repeals a measure passed last year by former state Sen. Lee Constantine, R-Altamonte Springs, that required inspections of septic tanks in an effort to protect the state's endangered springs and lakes. This has also passed the House and has one more committee stop in the Senate.

Seriously ??! Someone argued in favor and sponsored dumping waste into the ocean?

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At a certain stage the realization strikes through that one must either live outside of society's bonds or die of absolute boredom. There is no future or freedom in the circumscribed life and the only other life is complete rejection of the rules. There is no longer room for the soldier of fortune or the gentleman adventurer who can live both within and outside of society. Today it is all or nothing. To save my own sanity I chose the nothing.

-James Bolivar DiGriz