They’re as good an example as any of why tackling climate change will be so difficult.

So, a government that has failed now says it will be getting tough with the states who have also failed.

The problem in a nutshell is that there are too many polluters around the watershed. These include farmers, real estate developers, and the fishing industry.

The obvious solution, to put an end to commercial and residential development permanently while significantly increasing the cost of pollution for those projects already completed, is of course not a politically viable solution.

Politicians don’t do pain and Americans don’t do shared sacrifice any more.

Gorilla thinks: “And so the merry dance of just cause and empty threat goes on!”