This "clean hands" argument is easily, and frequently, over-stated.
Voters aren't buying the specious "jobs versus clean air/water" argument.
Continuing the fallacious jobs vs. clean air/water argument, the senator has introduced a resolution under the Congressional Review Act to prevent the mercury rule from moving forward.
The solar companies can make all the financial and clean-energy arguments they want to, but they still have to impel average consumers to switch energy providers for their own homes.
The Cornfields — the location of the old Southern Pacific River Station and a freight yard — was prime but polluted real estate and would cost a fortune to acquire and clean up, the argument went, and was good only for warehouses and perhaps some big-box stores.
The judge is not a clean slate, inputting arguments, reading precedent and rendering a more or less predictable decision.
This is in accordance with Alesha's brave new reformulation of the Cartesian cogito argument: "I clean, therefore I am".
As an American mussel producer put it to me things like oysters and mussels are the "economic argument for clean water".
The only things missing from this clean, airtight, entirely consistent argument are, well, all the dead babies in the Gosnell clinic — or the dead "precipitated fetuses," to employ the language Gosnell and his associates used to euphemize their practice of delivering and then "snipping" rather than aborting in utero.
In making his argument to clean up the system, Mr. Putin argues, with some justification, that he won election on a platform of bringing a dangerously undisciplined Russia to heel before it does itself fatal damage, and that reining in such behavior is the first step.
