THOSE WERE THE DAYS: Oil flowed near Smackover in Union County; also into streams.

Ernie Dumas this week recalls his idyllic youth in Union County, bobbing a cork for panfish, but taking care to avoid the oil-industry polluted waters in the days before government environmental regulation cleaned them up.

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It’s a prelude to his commenting further on the laughable list of “job-killing” regulations circulated by the polluters’ favorite congressman, U.S. Rep. Tim Griffin. It’s a polluters’ wish list of government deregulation of environmental controls. Dumas notes that most Americans favor clean air and water rules — at least they do until they learn that Muslim Kenyan in the White House supports them, too.

As usual, Ernie’s column is worth reading:

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