[DK GreenRoots] How Regulation Came to Be - Monongah
Hopefully this excellent series is resuming with its first post after a little over two years. Each diary describes a tragedy that then led to an important regulation - required reading for anyone who is advocating for better regulations to protect healthy, safety, and the environment.
Each of these diaries signs off with:
"And that, dear Kossacks, is where regulation comes from -- not from bored bureaucrats sitting in an office in Washington trying to think up ways to make life miserable and expensive for some innocent and unsuspecting businessman, but from real human suffering and tragedy brought about, all too often, by people who shirk what should be obvious responsibilities, who neglect basic diligence, who sacrifice safety for profit. They bring suffering on those who trust them and their products, and society adopts measures to make sure it never happens again. We have to force them, through regulation, to behave as they should have been behaving all along. That's how regulation came to be."
I also posted earlier today, although it's not an enviro diary:
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