Opinion: Why industry should be forced to clean up its messes
(WorldNews Environment)

When my family has a picnic in a public park, we clean up our food and our trash. Why? Because we feel it is our obligation to leave the park the way we found it for the people who come next. I´ll bet your family does the same. The Trump administration and Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke decided last month that industries that use public lands don´t have to follow that social norm. For decades, industries that mine or drill for oil or coal on our federal public lands had to clean up after themselves by paying the federal government to fix the damage they did to...