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jconlan@aol.com (JConlan) writes:

>>This state is screwed. Once a known violator of either Fed.
>>State or Local Regulations has been disclosed,There is virtually no one
>in
>>this stat that can do anything to them to enforce any regulations.  Why?
>>Because the state has become snarled in it's own little political cyclone
>>that the enforcement agencies are simply to affraid to attempt
>enforcement.

In addition, the political climate has changed drastically. Even before
the national Republican takeover, California was losing industries
because of the complex regulatory climate. Complex and often conflicting
state environmental regulations were not the only problem, cost of living,
labor costs, state taxes and other anti corporate conditions existed.
The state and some organizations (one, namely Joint Venture: Silicon
Valley Network) have been trying to improve the climate for corporations
with their large tax bases to stay and others to come into the state.
The environmental regulatory climate was very much anti business and,
if business was to be brought back to California, had to be loosened.

The Republican landslide with their budget cutting and, lack of love
for the EPA has caused many of the existing polluting companies to
take a "wait and see" attitude rather than clean up their act. 

This has caused a huge loss of business for my clients, the commercial
environmental companies. A  number of the smaller ones with new
technologies have literally gone out of business.

Oh well, the pendulum swings both ways.

Buddy


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