Re:CDC considers lowering threshold level for lead exposure
by stuckagain on Friday December 30, 2016 @02:25PM
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Contamination in Oakland is primarily from its history of elevated freeways. Responsibility for that contamination is diffused. How are you going to pin it on any one party in particular?
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Re:CDC considers lowering threshold level for lead exposure
by anigbrowl on Friday December 30, 2016 @09:49PM
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No need to pin it on one party. Rather than worrying about liability, better to worry about who's bearing the cost of the externality, and what the future costs of mitigating or not would be, with expenses to be paid from a general fund. Going forward it's better to price externalities in at the early stages.