Rollback of EPA oversight in Midwest favors polluters

SAUGET, Ill. -- Mamie Cosey and those living near this tiny, industrial village on the banks of the Mississippi River spent years wondering what poisons spewed from the three billowing stacks of a waste incinerator plant they all smell from their front porches.

Just two days before President Barack Obama left office, his Environmental Protection Agency ordered the stacks continuously monitored for arsenic, lead, mercury and other harmful metals that the 78-year-old Cosey blames for the health problems of her three great-grandchildren....

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Ken Notes: How do we remove EPA from the political yo-yo that benefits none of us. Liberal leadership creates standards that limit new business creation regardless of their pollution output while conservative leadership removes all restrictions allowing those who truly should be regulated to operate unrestricted.