I worked as a reporter for an environmental newsletter company and became more familiar with hazardous waste, cement kiln dust, RCRA, Superfund (or CERCLA as we liked to call it), SARA, TSCA and EPCRA as well as USTs, PRPs and RI/FSs than one would think possible. It was a trade newsletter aimed at businesses who needed to know what was happening on the federal and state legislative scene. I loved doing it. But I digress.

I remember being struck by the irony that the biggest polluter in this country is not DuPont or any of the hundreds of other environmental pirates. It's the federal government. Was then, is now. Gotta love a headline like this: Los Alamos: Nuke Storage Snafu . Sorta grabs your attention, doesn't it?