Steel mill polluted town as Romney firm profited

[Crabtownboy]

Is this one of the reasons Romney wants to do away with environmental regulations?

In 1998, Carter and her neighbors sued Georgetown Steel, then owned by the company Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney co-founded, Bain Capital. They sought millions in cleanup costs and accused the mill's owners of leaving their historic Southern neighborhood looking like it had been hit by a "chemical bomb."

State officials determined the mill was largely to blame for the pollution. As the lawsuit dragged on for years, the steel mill filed for bankruptcy and the plant ultimately settled with the residents.

In the end, Bain walked away with more than $30 million in profits. Carter got $800.

"That wasn't even enough to paint the house," said Carter, who is a Romney supporter this election.

As a presidential candidate, Romney has pledged to roll back environmental regulations as a way to spur growth. Under President Barack Obama, he recently quipped, "a regulator would have shut down the Wright Brothers for their 'dust pollution.'"

http://www.businessweek.com/ap/2012-08-11/steel-mill-polluted-town-as-romney-firm-profited

 

[targus]

"That wasn't even enough to paint the house," said Carter, who is a Romney supporter this election."

Why should this article cause anyone to vote for Obama over Romney...

When even Carter is a Romney supporter? :laugh:

I quess that Carter thinks that what Obama is doing to the country is worse that what this steel plant did to his town. :laugh:

 

[padredurand]

Is this one of the reasons Romney wants to do away with environmental regulations?

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Choose your poison. If the plant closes women die because they won't have insurance. If it stays open it will continue to destroy the environment while making rich people richer. Either way you'd get to gripe about Romney, CTB. If he drank lemonade you'd go find some obscure article that claimed Romney hated orange growers. I get it. I can't wait for the daily "Ryan Hates Old People" threads. :sleep:

 

[LadyEagle]

Fact: The EPA is choking us and choking business.

Obama declared a war on coal and fossil fuels before he was elected. Through his EPA goons, he has carried through on that promise and more. They are choking small business and small farmers. The whole lot needs thrown out, the EPA done away with.