Sherrod Brown Quotes
We know that, too often, oil and other hazardous materials are shipped across the country on aging tankers. Too many communities have seen what happens when trains derail and in some cases catch fire.
Brown, Sherrod. "Press Release: Brown Pushes for Rail Safety." U.S. Senate, 2015.
Fracturing underground shale—fracking—releases natural gas which the US has in an energy equivalent of two Saudi Arabias. However this is done by injecting water and chemicals into the underground shale. The shale is generally below the water table but the concrete shaft that carries the fluid and the gas at high pressure through the water table. There have been serious accidents where drinking water has been polluted. The George W. Bush administration, led by VP Cheney whose company was in the fracking business had a law passed which gave the gas fracking industry the right to endanger or pollute drinking water without the inspection of meeting the standards of the Clean Water Act and other state and federal protection laws. They are also exempt from having to disclose what poisons or carcinogens are in the fracking fluid or how much they are injecting into a community’s land and water. So the best potential option for American Energy independence got caught up with disputes over proper safety and disclosure procedures and the exemptions that were granted by Congress.
12 Years later, the BP Rig Deepwater Horizon failed and a huge amount of oil was released and polluted the Gulf of Mexico shores with the liability extending to many billions of dollars. Most of the members of Chafee’s own party wanted to seriously limit the liability of oil rig operators, but a few Republicans let by Chafee voting with the Democrats kept a high enough liability and BP and their subcontractors paid for most of the damage.
Issuing a statement over the health threat of dioxin in 1983:
Sherrod Campbell Brown is an American politician, educator, and academic serving as the senior United States Senator from Ohio, a seat to which he was first elected in 2006. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the U.S. Representative for Ohio's 13th congressional district from 1993 to 2007 and the 47th Secretary of State of Ohio from 1983 to 1991. He started his political career in 1975 as an Ohio State Representative.
