Palin made the difference in the Senate...

While the EPA may or may not be unconstitutional, federal regulation of pollutants that may cross state lines is necessary. The problem we had before those existed was companies who would build on state lines to pass their pollution into the next state. The next state had no power to regulate the pollution from the other state and not all states were willing to support the rights of their neighbors.

There are many cases where whole villages were made ill by the pollutants that crossed state lines this way.
Yeah, progressives like Rana look at the bigger picture and when the states don't act the Feds always have to step in and this, as Damo has pointed out is the case more often than not. It is a sad state of affairs that states and businesses and people don't regulate themselves! It would be so much easier and less expensive if they did for us all! I would love for the states to be able to have the control to control things!
 
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