Their job isn't to care about people. Their jobs care about shareholder value. We're seeing that a lot at the federal level, too, not just here. I mean, I just got into it with the EPA administrator over a smelter in Arizona that emits, I think it was 12 tons of lead into the atmosphere every year. And it has a elementary school that's a couple miles away. You could see the smelter from the elementary school. And there's technology available to clean the lead and arsenic out of the exhaust. (39:37–39:51)
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