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You argue that the very notion of the marketplace of ideas is itself so utterly fanciful and corroded that the notion that we just take away constraints and the good ideas unerringly rise to the top has to be insane, right?

Over time, as these pipes have corroded, they have leached lead — a chemical with no safe level of exposure — into tap water.

“It’s just old and corroded, so it feels like a ticking time bomb to continue letting this infrastructure operate and to restart it after such a severe spill without additional environmental review,” said Julie Teel Simmonds, senior counsel for the Center for Biological Diversity.

On May 19, 2015, a corroded section of an oil pipeline burst and released more than 140,000 gallons of oil near Refugio State Beach.

“They’re proposing not to build a new pipeline, but instead to restart this failed, corroded system that has already outlived its expected life. This has happened quietly, largely behind closed doors. Many agencies are looking at different angles of this, but it seems that no one has ever had even one public hearing on this restart proposal.”