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March 23, 2011 11:04 pm PDT
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Why regulations are important
The confusion surrounding this latest Gulf spill points up a fatal flaw of America's oil pollution reporting system, which operates via a virtual honor code. Under present reporting protocols, polluters are tasked with the responsibility of turning themselves in when they're responsible for an accident -- knowing all the while that a federal inspector will probably never be dispatched to investigate. — from an article by Time's Bryan Walsh on the lessons of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, almost one year later....Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/KC5FL8-67Kw/why-regulations-are.html
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