‘‘Rob’s letter lifted the curtain on a whole new theater,’’ says Harry Deitzler, a plaintiff’s lawyer in West Virginia who works with Bilott. ‘‘Before that letter, corporations could rely upon the public misperception that if a chemical was dangerous, it was regulated.’’ Under the 1976 Toxic Sub­stances Control Act, the E.P.A. can test chemicals only when it has been provided evidence of harm. This arrangement, which largely allows chemical companies to regulate themselves, is the reason that the E.P.A. has restricted only five chemicals, out of tens of thousands on the market, in the last 40 years.

But regulation has to be to blame! Too much government somehow forced the chemical corporations to dump poison in the water, because there's no way a private company with its dick firmly in the grasp of the invisible hand would ever do anything illegal! Libertopia Uber Alles!

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Every time someone claims that the Chinese have no environmental enforcement or no anti-trust enforcement, or no human rights, you only have to read the news here for 6 months to realize its a miracle we can see the egg on their faces for all the egg on ours.