Factoid/2010/02/04
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Our Coasts and the Supreme Court's Ruling on Unlimited Corporate Spending on Elections
- "So, while I might support a candidate who opposes offshore drilling, Exxon is now free to drop a few million, or tens of millions, to unseat that same candidate. The plastics or fertilizer industries can now more easily target elected officials who support legislation to limit coastal runoff of waste and pollution and the real-estate industry (once it revives from its last burst bubble) can go after those who would protect salt marshes and other coastal habitats that act as marine wildlife nurseries, pollution filters, carbon sinks and storm barriers if that industry prefer they be bulldozed and built on for water view mansions and high-end resorts." - excerpt from this Blue Frontier web page.
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