pouring it into Lake Michigan
This is an excellent piece of enterprise journalism. Now let's add up the total permitted pollution discharge into Lake Michigan from all four states.
The Clean Water Act set out to "virtually eliminate" discharges to
U.S. waterways by 1985. But a Post-Tribune analysis shows Indiana's
major facilities discharged more than 378 million pounds of pollutants
into Lake Michigan and its tributaries in just one year.
Dumping of nearly all pollutants discharged by Indiana's 33 major polluters has fallen dramatically since 1979. The Clean Water Act has made a difference.
Yes, let's see the Chicago Tribune, the Detroit Free Press, etc., step up to the plate and provide these statistics for their respective states.
Posted by: sven | December 24, 2007 at 07:42 PM