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To: Eric who wrote (74546)	1/31/2017 8:47:40 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86355

Re environmental regulation, there is something called a point of diminishing return. Cleaning up in the 1970's accomplished a lot. More recently, little if any improvements have amounted to anything worth the costs. You can't clean up the environment more than nature makes it. As I've pointed out, herbivores and termites and other things put out vast quantities of methane with no ill effect. Volcanoes emit sulfur dioxide, so do bacteria that feed on plankton. Whether we know what it is, we smell it whenever we go to the ocean. Terpenes are emitted by conifers. Trying to make human emissions zero while nature produces vast quantities of 'pollutants' is futile.