Name:   MartiniMan - Subject:   And just so I am clear Date:   1/13/2014 2:50:34 PM

I am all for sensible environmental rules and regulations that promote cleanups and sensible levels of protection of the environment.  Many states have done a great job passing voluntary cleanup programs that are both efficient, cost effective and protective.  I can do in a few years in a voluntary cleanup what Superfund can't accomplish in decades.  And many of our clients are very sensitive to actual risk and the adverse impact it can have on the public and hence their businesses.  What they object to is the wasting of millions of dollars in valuable resources, a cost they pass on ultimately to you and I, caused by bad laws, bad rules and regulations and out of control state and Federal agencies.  Frankly, anyone in their right mind should feel the same way but unfortunately the environmental arena has become one of the last vestiges of left wing radicalism.