Who Is A Pollution Superstar?

The NC Association of Realtors is consistently at the top of the list of groups that spend the most money in lobbying and campaign contributions to influence our elected officials: http://www.democracy-nc.org/LobbyistSpending07.shtml

And all too often they are trying to undo important environmental protections for our water and land. They spent almost a million dollars in 2007 on lobbying expenses alone, twice what any other group spent. They have fought common sense measures like the transfer tax that would balance our budgets and improve conservation efforts.

At least on the coast if there is a government effort to do something to protect the environment or stop pollution of water, the realtors will be the ones screaming against it. They have my #1 vote.

PCSP is also bad....destroying wetlands, thus increasing water pollution as well as using so much water that the water table in the Castle Hayne aquifer is lowered. They create jobs in this county, but they are an example of a foreign company that makes millions while destroying our enviroment. They are not environmentally friendly and local stores repreat that the plant is a dangerous place to work.

Believe it or not, Wells Fargo contributes a lot to pollution. They finance major construction projects, and, like the realtors mentioned previously, spend an awful large amount of money helping to shove many of the projects through with as little oversight as possible. If a builder is going to have a hard time meeting pollution and other standards that would raise their costs, they might well go somewhere else and finance through a different company than Wells Fargo (or not build at all,) so they actively do what they can to encourage building with as little government oversight as possible.

The News and Observer columnist thinks people who want clean air and water are crazy, thinks we should keep building wasteful dirty coal plants, and thinks conservation of energy isn't important. Even wants eastern NC counties to accept massive new landfills: http://www.newsobserver.com/567/story/560517.html

He seems to have a particular hatred for conservation efforts and environmental protection. Maybe his parents never took him camping?

126,000 lbs of TOXIC pollution to the tiny Pigeon River ALONE (not including air emmissions) in 2006. Need I say more?

For building more coal plants (Cliffside) and trying to rip of consumers with so called energy efficiency programs (save-a-watt).

Last night, as I waited with the TV sound off for a commercial to end, it got through that I was looking at an ad by a big chemical company for a product which rids one's lawn of bugs! Is there a contest to achieve the most boring lawn on the block?

That's right, it kills all the bugs in your lawn--as if we don't owe our environment in large part to insects. If everyone dilligently uses this product, we could finish off Mother Earth in record time! But wait. We're already inundating our neighborhoods with all manner of similar products, and we wonder what has happened to our frogs, honeybees, etc.

So do I nominate the chemical companies who dream up these nightmares and talk us into depending on them? No, too self riteous. I hereby nominate for Pollution Superstar--ALL OF US who use this stuff.

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