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posted by chromas on Friday March 08 2019, @07:20PM   Printer-friendly
from the water?-like-out-the-toilet? dept.

Since water is a key ingredient in beer, it being mostly water, polluted water threatens beer quality.

Thursday a group of 59 craft breweries sent a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers opposing the agencies' "Dirty Water Rule" proposal to slash clean water protections for waterways around the country.

These brewers, who are partners in NRDC's Brewers for Clean Water campaign, are standing up for safeguards that protect the sources of clean water on which their businesses depend.


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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @08:25PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @08:25PM (#811711)

    Whatever happened to "leave this place a little better than it was left for you", or was that the local campground sign I remember seeing?

    So Trump is actually forcing people to pollute now? Even if you wanted to not leave your trash at the campground, now it is illegal not to? More formally:

    Clean Water Act != Clean Water
    !Clean Water Act != !Clean Water

    And don't people get these laws are named to do the opposite of what they accomplish yet?

    I know people at companies that make money off doing various environment sampling and tests. From what I hear, the common perception of the effectiveness of these regulations is highly overstated. Further, there are at least 3 layers of these regulations with conflicting standards and rules (federal, state, municipal) that waste everyones time. There is more time spend on paperwork and dealing with various EPAs about stuff like how many nitrile gloves can be used per month than in actually testing the samples.

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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by tangomargarine on Friday March 08 2019, @09:12PM (3 children)

    by tangomargarine (667) on Friday March 08 2019, @09:12PM (#811739)

    Shockingly, if you stop punishing companies for polluting, they'll start polluting again. Because just dumping it is a hell of a lot cheaper than disposing of whatever properly.

    Regulation exists because at some point it was proved that without the regulation, jerks wouldn't act reasonably in the first place. So maybe that's not always the case, but in this instance it definitely is.

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    "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @09:15PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 08 2019, @09:15PM (#811742)

      Because just dumping it is a hell of a lot cheaper than disposing of whatever properly.

      So is giving the minimum wage dudes taking samples some beer or whatever to do it "right". Do you see them doing that?

      • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Monday March 11 2019, @03:17PM

        by tangomargarine (667) on Monday March 11 2019, @03:17PM (#812700)

        If all you need to do is buy them a couple beers to come to a certain conclusion, I'm not going to trust what they say either way.

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        "Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday March 09 2019, @09:11PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday March 09 2019, @09:11PM (#812135) Journal

      Shockingly, if you stop punishing companies for polluting, they'll start polluting again.

      This "stop punishing" thing is not happening yet.

      Regulation exists because at some point it was proved that without the regulation, jerks wouldn't act reasonably in the first place.

      But regulation also exists because some politicians wanted to pretend to do something.