Summary
Allies of Donald Trump are targeting the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of a broader deregulatory agenda.
House Republicans criticized EPA scientific integrity policies, claiming they hinder political leadership, while Senate Republicans, led by Shelley Moore Capito, are attacking strict PFAS drinking water regulations.
These rules, designed to address toxic “forever chemicals,” have faced industry pushback over costs and scientific claims, despite broad scientific support.
Critics warn of intensified attacks on EPA scientists and weakened environmental protections under a potential Trump administration. Industry groups are lobbying to roll back key regulations.
One thing I have to say after Stephen Harper’s years in Canada: it’s a whole lot easier to pollute water than it is to unpollute it.
My family comes from a mining area and it turns out arsenic mine trainings will create a perpetual cycle of continuously leeching into the water.
That’s the kind of thing you only learn about after you pour tons of mine trainings into your freshwater sources.
The US already learned that lesson, which is why we have the EPA.
But now that things are less horrible, malicious people spread lies about how we don’t need the thing that keep things running mostly smotthly so we get to learn the lesson all over again.
Right along the lines of, “Why are we making kids get the measles vaccine when hardly any kids ever get measles?”
People are so fucking stupid. Idiocracy wasn’t supposed to be a “how to” manual.
If you pick up pretty much any science fiction book and read it front to cover, it is often the bad parts that authors go to great lenghts to make clear it should never had come to be that are usually recreated in reality.
Ever read Starship Troopers?
Remember, non-voters: this is what you wanted. This is what you chose. I know I’m not gonna hear any complaining.
