Skip Lacaze<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://sfba.social/@drahardja" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>drahardja</span></a></span> Before Before the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NationalEnvironmentalPolicyAct</span></a> of 1970 (<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/NEPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NEPA</span></a>) and the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ResourceConservationAndRecoveryAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ResourceConservationAndRecoveryAct</span></a> of 1976 (<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/RCRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RCRA</span></a>), US oversight of wastes was in the hands of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ArmyCorpsOfEngineers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ArmyCorpsOfEngineers</span></a> & the US Public Health Service (<a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USPHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPHS</span></a>). The PHS was so weak that the waste industry didn’t bother to corrupt it, unlike some of their successors. They were concerned about unsafe <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Garbage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Garbage</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Sewage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Sewage</span></a> disposal practices and their impacts on waters and health. They did a study. 1/4</p>