One reason that Mexico is able to undercut U.S. manufacturers' prices is its lack of enforcement of its own environmental laws. Mexico's environmental agency has laws on the books that are just as strict as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The difference is that they somehow, sorta, kinda, forget to force companies to obey them.
It's not a new problem. And it's getting worse. Since 2018, more than 100 billion gallons of raw sewage laden with industrial chemicals and trash have flowed down the Tijuana River, crossing into America through Navy-owned land and out to the Pacific.
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, is demanding that Mexico get serious about addressing a problem that is sickening Navy SEALs, school children, and closing beaches in California.
Zeldin said he would give the Mexican government a list of projects that are needed to resolve the problem. Given that Mexico has ignored U.S. demands to clean up its side of the border in the past, no one is optimistic that anything will change.
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It's not a new problem. And it's getting worse. Since 2018, more than 100 billion gallons of raw sewage laden with industrial chemicals and trash have flowed down the Tijuana River, crossing into America through Navy-owned land and out to the Pacific.
The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, is demanding that Mexico get serious about addressing a problem that is sickening Navy SEALs, school children, and closing beaches in California.
Zeldin said he would give the Mexican government a list of projects that are needed to resolve the problem. Given that Mexico has ignored U.S. demands to clean up its side of the border in the past, no one is optimistic that anything will change.
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