Monday, July 2, 2018

    EPA ADMINISTRATOR SILENT ON NEW SUPERFUND SITE


AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY
Friday morning,  a 20,000 barrel warehouse collapsed at the  Barton 1792 Distillery in Bardstown, Kentucky, polluting that Commonwealth's waters with all or part of the contents of  9,000  casks  of aging bourbon- about 500,000 gallons,  or a hundred million juleps worth.
Pruitt's teetotal silence in the matter has not stopped Kentucky's Energy and Environmental Cabinet from citing Sazarac, the distillery's parent company,  
"for failing to report the spill in a timely manner and for polluting the waters of the commonwealth"
and Sazarac may well be hearing from Greenpace too, as the spill of a "fair amount" of whiskey and rawer spirits inundated the  adjacent holler, ending the lives of 800 innocent creek-dwelling fish, many of them the sadly unendangered gizzard shad.