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"WASHINGTON -- House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) said Tuesday that no new regulations are needed after a chemical spill in West Virginia last week left more than 300,000 people without safe tap water. He suggested the incident was not the result of less environmental and energy regulation but of the Obama administration's failure to enforce existing rules.
"The issue is this: We have enough regulations on the books. And what the administration ought to be doing is actually doing their jobs," Boehner said at a press conference. "Why wasn't this plant inspected since 1991?""
DUH John, there is no agency or regulations in existance charged with inspecting chemical storage facilities!
Now I have a question. WHY was a toxic chemical storage facility located a stones throw up stream from the largest water treatment plant in the whole state? The city of Charleston just happens to be the state capital and they get all their water from that plant.