{"id":30909,"date":"2012-10-28T21:01:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-29T03:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/more-government-interference-over-clean-water.html"},"modified":"2012-11-01T09:18:29","modified_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:18:29","slug":"more-government-interference-over-clean-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/more-government-interference-over-clean-water.html","title":{"rendered":"More government interference over &quot;clean water&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, is this typical EPA overreach or what?. Clearly the <i>market<\/i> could decide if the water was clean enough for consumption. \u00a0I mean, if \u00a0enough people died in the community, then it would get a reputation and informed consumers would stop buying houses there, <i>problem solved!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>As it stands, now that the EPA has made a big, literal, &quot;federal case&quot; over it, those North Carolina folks will be expecting someone to <i>do something about it!<\/i> And with my tax dollars! <i>How crazy and un-American is that?<\/i><\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'>\n<p style='margin-bottom:5px;'><strong>Embedded Link<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href='http:\/\/openchannel.nbcnews.com\/_news\/2012\/10\/28\/14728166-nc-neighbors-aghast-to-learn-drinking-water-contaminated-for-years?lite'>N.C. neighbors aghast to learn drinking water contaminated for years<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tWAKE FOREST, N.C. &#8212; A Wake Forest community is in an uproar after learning the state of North Carolina knew a resident\u2019s water had been contaminated with toxic chemicals and failed to alert other re&#8230;\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p style='clear:both;'> <strong>Google+:<\/strong> <a href='https:\/\/plus.google.com\/101083456815352083930\/posts\/8nqBpxNnfgg' target='_new'>View post on Google+<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I mean, is this typical EPA overreach or what?. Clearly the market could decide if the water was clean enough for consumption. \u00a0I mean, if \u00a0enough people died in the community, then it would get a reputation and informed consumers would stop buying houses there, problem solved! As it stands, now that the EPA has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/10\/28\/more-government-interference-over-clean-water.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;More government interference over &quot;clean water&quot;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,63,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-environment","category-politics-law"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7981,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/07\/09\/alarm_showers_a.html","url_meta":{"origin":30909,"position":0},"title":"Alarm!  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