The environmental lobbying and special interest groups have done an amazing job of selling their programs.

Some of the environmental laws prohibit any consideration of the economic costs or benefits of the environmental protection actions. The environmental laws have created vast opportunities for the growth of huge government agencies and expenditure programs. (It is expected to cost tax payers at least $200,000,000,000 dollars to clean up the waste sites at U.S. defense bases in the United States. Imagine, if you can, the international politics involved in trying to force the U.S.A. to pay for similar clean up operations of U.S. bases in other nations.