Because of the financial interest behind WTI, politics has suppressed science. There is no representative government. Public policies are designed to benefit the rich and powerful at the expense of everyone else. Our country is dominated by this wealthy minority and the politicians mirror their views. Regulations and rules mean nothing.
Special interest means everything.
Politicians are guided by campaign contribution, not morals, promises or laws. The insane siting of this facility, so close to homes and an elementary school, poses an undue risk to an impoverished minority community. Those questions have been answered, and everything we testified to at that congressional hearing has now been proven to be true and is documented. A federal court ruled that WTI is too dangerous to operate for even one year, and Ohio Attorney General Lee Fisher has made a legal conclusion that WTI was built and is operating the incinerator without a permit in felony violation of the law. There have been a number of documented violations that should have resulted in definitive action by the EPA to halt WTI's operations.