Do absolutely nothing? A novel strategy for dealing with toxic contamination

At toxic cleanup sites across the country, environmental agencies have allowed groundwater contamination to go untreated and slowly diminish over time — a strategy that saves money for polluters but could cost taxpayers dearly and jeopardize drinking water supplies.

The strategy is called monitored natural attenuation, or MNA. With little public awareness or debate, it has come into increasing use nationally since the 1990s as a way to cope with the enormous cost of some groundwater cleanups....

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Ken Notes: This debate will rage on for the next 100 years at least. It is too bad that we could not resolve thee issues by working together. Now we rely on the yin yang of politics and big government and regardless of who is in charge we all lose.