I remember when I was a kid, there were some summer days when the air pollution was so bad that my eyes burned when I went outside to play.

There used to be this ugly orange-brown layer when you looked at the horizon.

At the time, there was a cleaning product that talked about "ring around the bathtub." We kids used to talk about the "ring around the horizon."

Fortunately, the EPA cleaned that up.

@#2 ... No word yet on how democrats plan to take on Monsanto and RoundUp! ...

Why does your comment seem to think that only the Democrats are concerned about the chemicals in the environment that poison us?

Really, why?

Is your comment tacitly admitting that Republicans do not care if corporations poison the good people of this Country?

Back in a prior life, when I was young at college...

One of my fraternity brothers, who was on the college yacht team, asked if i wanted to go sailing.

I said yes.

As I've noted here previously, my college was in New Jersey, right on the Hudson River, across from 34th Street in Manhattan. So going sailing on the waters of the Hudson River was good stuff.

I went out on the river. Had a great time. Got my feet wet, so to speak, and literally.

A couple days afterwards, I noticed that the trim pieces of my sneakers were detaching from the sneakers.

Long story short, the chemicals in the Hudson River, where we sailed, had reduced the adhesive qualities of the glues that were holding my sneakers together.

Fortunately, only the trim pieces were affected,

Such was life in the 70's when corporate pollution ruled the Country.