Blame all around
Now that state and local officials have agreed to let the feds investigate what happened in Danvers, I anticipate that this will be my last post on the subject. But be sure to read Beth Daley's story in today's Boston Globe, which makes it clear that chemicals being stored at the blast site hadn't been inspected for years because no one was doing his job, at the federal, state or local level. Good grief.
Tom Dalton of the Salem News has more.
posted by Dan Kennedy @ 9:06 AM
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As a former employee of DEP, I can say that Congress and the Legislature has never ever provided enough funding for EPA and DEP to inspect every chemical facility in a timely manner. And they also have to inspect facilities with air quality permits, hazardous waste sites, and so on, as well as do other work. The implicit statement is that there will never be enough funding to address every environmental hazard. The same goes for funding to catch every criminal, stop every terrorist, ticket every speeder, etc. We also don't know what happened in the Danvers situation yet.
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