Energy Bill Makes MTBE Waiver Retroactive ( we should have guess this

AP NEWS

November 15, 2003
Energy Bill Makes MTBE Waiver Retroactive
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 6:26 p.m. ET

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A provision inserted into a massive energy bill would shield makers of the gasoline additive MTBE from more than a dozen lawsuits filed in recent months over drinking water contamination, according to details of the legislation released Saturday.

The Republican-crafted bill would make product liability protection for MTBE retroactive to Sept. 5, before virtually all of the recent lawsuits involving the additive were filed, including one by the state of New Hampshire.

The additive has been found to foul drinking water supplies in at least 28 states when gasoline containing MTBE leaks or is spilled into surface or groundwater. Lawsuits have been filed in at least a dozen states from California to New England asking that the MTBE makers help pay for water cleanup, according to lawyers involved in them.


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BUT the good news is there may be a couple Red States the GOP are fucking over on this....

Constitutional proscriptions agains Bills of Attainder? I would think that it could.

just about everything these fuckers do SHOULD be unconstitutional on these grounds. they are the masters of disguising the real beneficiaries. and i love this forum. 99 out of 100 americans have no idea what a bill of attainder is, and here it takes how many seconds for someone to bring it up?

As part of that deal, producers of the additive MTBE, which has been blamed for groundwater pollution in many parts of the country, would gain immunity from product liability lawsuits and the substance would be banned nationwide as of 2015. The MTBE provision was a priority of Representative Tom DeLay, the House majority leader, and other lawmakers from Louisiana and Texas, where MTBE is produced.

Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, has threatened to filibuster the energy measure over the MTBE provision, which he called the "worst break for polluters" he had seen in two decades in Congress. But it was unclear whether enough Democrats would object to the measure to prevent it moving forward.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/15/politics/15ENER.html

what the fates have in-store for the bugman. And it can't come 2 soon 2 suit me. Rat basard, roach brained dickhead. Ya gotta know the years of Xposure 2 toxic chemicals is rotting his brain

Did we forget to mention it poisons and kills people?

The Democrats weren't allowed to contribute toward nor have access to.

What else is buried in those pages? Why wasn't the Bill a normal part of the "Democratic" process? What other surprises may we expect?

So I suppose this means "the polluter pays" transfers to "the taxpayer pays," just as it does for petroleum in general.

Taxpayer = screwed

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