Washington’s Snowmageddon offers D.C. residents a rare opportunity to experience the real-world effects of environmental policies that don’t make any sense.

For instance, in years past, excess snow plowed off the local roads was loaded into trucks was then dumped into the Potomac River. It was an easy, cheap way to get rid of tons of the white stuff. But the District no longer does that because environmentalists complained that the road salt was fouling the river.

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