How goes the wastebusting?
It goes well, thank you for asking!
I will admit that the past few years have been frustrating. On a federal level, the absolute chucklefucks in Washington have been dragging their feet to get anything resolved for years, all in the name of “government deregulation”. As I recall, from 1981 to 1983 was a particularly dark time—Reagan had just come into office, the EPA was a joke, and Watt and Gorsuch seemed determined to undo pretty much all of the work that we accomplished in the ’70s. I can only thank our lucky stars that the two of them both shot themselves in the foot back in ’83, and that we got Ruckelshaus back.
On a local level, though, I feel lucky to be a part of a large community of environmentalists in the greater Cleveland area. Now, when I say that, it doesn’t mean that our little corner of the world is perfect by any means (believe me, it’s not), or that we don’t have more battles to fight (we most assuredly do). But we just celebrated the 20th anniversary of Earth Day about two weeks ago, and the turnout was absolutely incredible. The people who care here really care, and I just count myself lucky enough to be working alongside them in pursuit of the same wonderful causes.