Current environmental regulatory structures are mostly about “permitting” certain harms to occur!
Corporate harms such as clear-cutting, mining, factory farming, fracking and the use of toxic chemicals. They act more to legalize harmful activity and other business entities than to protect our natural and human communities.
Even though water is tested regularly in Lane County, under current law, if the water testing meets the current regulatory “standards”, which permit toxic chemicals and pollution, they will deem the water “clean”, while you and your families ingest “legal amounts” of toxic chemicals.