According to a report released on Oct. 11, over half of the country’s industrial and municipal facilities dumped more pollutants in waterways than allowed by the Clean Water Act.
U.S. PIRG, an environmental watchdog group, used 2005 data to find that 3,600 facilities or 57 percent exceeded their Clean Water Act permits at least once. The average violation was more than thee times the limit of what can be dumped into a waterway.
On the 35th anniversary of the Clean Water Act, which was passed on Oct.18, 1972, the report is a searing reflection on the U.S. ruling class treatment of infrastructure necessary to our health and well being.
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