News
Welcome to the News community!
Rules:
1. Be civil
Attack the argument, not the person. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Good faith argumentation only. This includes accusing another user of being a bot or paid actor. Trolling is uncivil and is grounds for removal and/or a community ban. Do not respond to rule-breaking content; report it and move on.
2. All posts should contain a source (url) that is as reliable and unbiased as possible and must only contain one link.
Obvious biased sources will be removed at the mods’ discretion. Supporting links can be added in comments or posted separately but not to the post body. Sources may be checked for reliability using Wikipedia, MBFC, AdFontes, GroundNews, etc.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Clickbait titles may be removed.
Posts which titles don’t match the source may be removed. If the site changed their headline, we may ask you to update the post title. Clickbait titles use hyperbolic language and do not accurately describe the article content. When necessary, post titles may be edited, clearly marked with [brackets], but may never be used to editorialize or comment on the content.
5. Only recent news is allowed.
Posts must be news from the most recent 30 days.
6. All posts must be news articles.
No opinion pieces, Listicles, editorials, videos, blogs, press releases, or celebrity gossip will be allowed. All posts will be judged on a case-by-case basis. Mods may use discretion to pre-approve videos or press releases from highly credible sources that provide unique, newsworthy content not available or possible in another format.
7. No duplicate posts.
If an article has already been posted, it will be removed. Different articles reporting on the same subject are permitted. If the post that matches your post is very old, we refer you to rule 5.
8. Misinformation is prohibited.
Misinformation / propaganda is strictly prohibited. Any comment or post containing or linking to misinformation will be removed. If you feel that your post has been removed in error, credible sources must be provided.
9. No link shorteners or news aggregators.
All posts must link to original article sources. You may include archival links in the post description. News aggregators such as Yahoo, Google, Hacker News, etc. should be avoided in favor of the original source link. Newswire services such as AP, Reuters, or AFP, are frequently republished and may be shared from other credible sources.
10. Don't copy entire article in your post body
For copyright reasons, you are not allowed to copy an entire article into your post body. This is an instance wide rule, that is strictly enforced in this community.
view the rest of the comments
Why doesn't the EPA keep data on a national level???!!?!?
Like wtf?
Because then people would know how often this happens and where. Can't have that disrupting things
Like most other agencies designed to"protect" people, they've been severely refunded, which relates back to your answer.
I'm reminded of how the COVID Tracking Project pulled together fragmented data about tests, cases and deaths because it just wasn't available on a national level. I heard an interview with the original volunteers, where they explained that they didn't expect to be collating the data for long, just until the federal government could get its shit together.
Then huzzah! Finally the white house are giving numbers in their briefings, seems like they've finally gotten it together and these volunteers can wind down their work and stop feeling so overwhelmed and out of their depth. What's more, the white house's figures were in line with their own figures, so that was a relief — an indication they were doing something right. Except the figures seemed a little too in line, and with a creeping dread, they slowly realised that the white house were using their figures. It's not just that cavalry wouldn't be coming to bail them out, but that they, a ragtag team of hundreds of self organised volunteers, were the cavalry.
It's a story that's inspirational and harrowing in equal measure and it's why I would be more surprised if the EPA did have data available nationally.
Our government needs a nation technology team. They could provide infrastructure and code to the state organizations that set up these systems so they could keep managing things on their own but in a consistent way that can be shared across states. Any Web site the government needs to build should use the libraries and tools provided by that team. It would save time and money and give so many benefits.
Because there is Republican party