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Everything is fiiiiiiiine.... I mean we're only talking about:
Alkylated lead compounds
Polycyclic organic matter (POM)
Mercury
Hexachlorobenzene
Polychlorinated biphenyls(PCB)
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofurans (TCDF)
2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin
So the cancer rates, neurotoxicity rates, kidney and liver disease rates, and general bad for you vibes might keep happening. Its all for progress right?.... Right?
wtf leaded gasoline is back too? (there are very few other uses for alkyllead compounds and it would be hard to make it accidentally)
"I call it beautiful, clean lead. I told my people, never use the word lead unless you put beautiful clean before it."
I mean, they have to make new republicans somehow
I thought that's what the podcasts are for.
That's the paint, the toxins are the primer.
If people don't want these things in their air, why don't they just vote with their wallets and NOT BUY products that create these byproducts, or move to a place that better suits their snowflake-lungs?
Worst case, if you develop cancer after 5 years of exposure, you can exercise your right to sue the company for damages and be made whole again.
We don't need government hamstringing industry when the free market can sort these things out!
/s (because who the fuck knows these days)
Fucking poe's law. I thought you were serious until the last sentence. Even the idea of being made whole isn't something beyond what some fuckers would claim.
You will actually get some hardcore libertarians unironically making the argument that regulations are completely unnecessary as long as you have a strong court system to award damages in the event that harm is actually done to an individual.
Which, sure, in a frictionless, spherical universe full of perfectly rational actors that exists only in a textbook, maybe that argument has some merit.
In the real world it means arguing that disfiguring people or giving them horrific terminal cancer should just be a line item on your ledger, next to rent and breakroom coffee.
Hey, my doc just said I was low on vitamin Mercury Hexachlorobenzene Polychlorinated biphenyls(PCB) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofurans (TCDF) 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin. I'm saved!
I think you made a typo.
~~progress~~ profits
/s
These are mostly combustion byproducts btw. Mercury emissions come from coal fired powerplants, PCBs are an old and long discontinued type of nonflammable coolant, HCB also isn't even manufactured probably
This dovetails nicely with RFKs health initiatives.
Should really ~~kill~~ spike that autism rate.
Aren’t these the same people banning Fluoride and complaining about supposed Mercury in vaccines???
Maybe, but what does that have to do with anything??? /s
Hypocrisy is their super power. you kight vaguely annoy them if you point it out, but they'll never stop or recognize it.
Yep.
They want the good chemicals out, the bad ones in
I know that this way too oversimplified, chemistry is hard, but dihydrogen monoxide isn't a bad thing, as much as Republicans will think it is.
Republicans and their supporters are giant ignorant idiots with huge dunning-kruger issues
Reading this as I'm sitting in a park, looking across the bay at the mainland and thinking about how visible and thick the pollution is today. Above me the sky is a beautiful and vibrant blue, lots of fluffy clouds. Then you look toward the horizon and there's a sickly pale, yellowish haze above the land.
America the beautiful, indeed...
You guys are fucked. Wait you know that already. I really am sorry (atleast for everyone who voted NOT orange poison). I would allow every U.S. refugee.
It's not just Americans who are fucked, it's basically anything that breathes.
You are not wrong and i hate it.
good thing we can breathe money
These scumbags should be forced to live downwind from these polluters...
Inside the smoke stacks
ngl I saw that thumbnail and thought it was news about the pope again
You don’t have to worry about that until the 7th.
The Orange Pope.
Is there some reason this wasn’t filibustered?
According to a reply I got when I asked that question on another thread, this is being done under the Congressional Review Act, which isn't subject to supermajority rules.
And specifically because it was only instituted 60 days before the change in Congress. If this had been implemented before the election they couldn't block it with a simple majority.
Haven't you heard? Breathable air is DEI now.
Can't be woke if the air lacks sufficient oxygen to support conciousness.
I feel like secret service would get itself all in a tizzy, citing things like "terrorism" and "chemical warfare" if members of the senate and/or their staffers received care packages containing:
Alkylated lead compounds, Polycyclic organic matter (POM), Mercury, Hexachlorobenzene, Polychlorinated biphenyls(PCB), 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzofurans (TCDF), 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.
Seems kinda hypocritical imho.
Several Republican lawmakers have been attempting to revoke the rule. Republican Sen. John Curtis of Utah introduced the resolution which passed Thursday. Curtis had argued that the rule disincentivized companies to deploy new technology to reduce pollution.
"The rule put forward under the former administration shut the door on progress," Curtis said in a statement after the resolution's passage. "It told companies that no matter how much they invest to reduce harmful emissions, they would still be punished with permanent red tape. That's not good science, it's not good governance, and it certainly isn't good for the environment. My resolution restores a common-sense incentive: if you clean up, you get credit for it."
Buuuuuuuuut, if you don't clean up, don't worry about it.
si-cough cough cough-gh
It’s always a great time to make respirator masks like N95s a part of your life, even if you stopped or never started. The future will have even more fun reasons to own inexpensive P100 elastomerics with backup multi-gas cartridges too!
Fucking DIOXIN?!
Very bad even by already low American standards. Does anyone know what other countries regulations look like in relation to this? Does Canada have laws limiting any of these? European countries? I'm trying to find out, but info is sparse it seems.