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tions for delegates to the Virginia legislature. In particular they would do well to measure the flawed record of 31st District incumbent Jay Katzen against the promise of challenger, Paul Asciolla.
Environmental problems ' once seemed distant. They were about Brazilian rain forests and oil spills in Alaska, not about us. If we had fewer fireflies and a lot ' more truck noise, we assimi- ' lated such losses as prices of growth. After all, some of us could still find places to go fishing and glimpse the mountains now and then. 1
However, as tens of thousands of fish in Maryland and North Carolina riparian 1 \waters develop vile lesions and perish, while watermen on Maryland’s Pokamoke river are sickened by the same toxin, a microscopic organism that proliferates in 1 polluted waters, we should realize that this thing is creeping, and its name is environmental trouble. Could similar problems affect our region? Read on.
The federal government has recently felt obliged to take the Commonwealth of 1 Virginia to court because of ‘ the failure of its regulatory authorities to crack down on 1 polluters. Where were our elected officials when Governor George Allen’s Department of EnvironmentalQuality allowed some 22,250 violations by Smithfield Foods pertaining to wastewater discharges into the Pagan River?
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