How is the recession good for the environment?

March 25th, 2009 at 01:12pm Jennie Pollock

An article in Newsweek will tell you it goes beyond Obama’s green-collar jobs:

It is no coincidence that some of the dirtiest industrial operations are falling victim to the global recession. Over the past two decades, much of the world’s manufacturing moved to where pollution standards are little more than mild suggestions. Since small, corner-cutting, inefficient facilities tend to both flout pollution laws and be most vulnerable to a sudden drop in demand, the global recession has hit such operations especially hard.

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