Somehow I don't think those 16 senators have thought this deregulation thing through; certainly they don't intend any of the consequences coming to their backyard... "Smog" is the light pollution that Los Angeles has. In Pittsburgh, during a good winter inversion, it would be nighttime all day, sometimes for several days. Cars had to use their headlights and the streetlights were on. In 1948, a smog in Donora, just down the river, killed 20 people right away and dozens of others more slowly. If the 16 senators had their way, the official government response would be: What do you expect living next to a zinc plant? Saving their lives would be a "job-killing measure." The dead hand of federal regulation had yet to forestall the more exciting industrial accidents. We were at our perch on the hilltop minutes after the big passenger steamer Island Queen blew up in 1947, killing 21, and taking the rest of the day to burn to its water line. Read more: http://www.vcstar.com/news/2011/nov/25/mcfeatters-return-with-us-now-to-those... - vcstar.com
