The party-line vote marked the first time in the 55-year history of the Clean Air Act that Congress has moved to weaken the power of the landmark environmental law.
  • Grool The Demon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    12 days ago

    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?

    • dmention7@lemm.eeEnglish
      10·
      15 days ago

      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)

    • PancakesCantKillMe@lemmy.world
      8·
      15 days ago

      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!

  • Capt. Wolf@lemmy.world
    19·
    15 days ago

    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…

  • plz1@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    15 days ago

    These scumbags should be forced to live downwind from these polluters…

  • Gordon Calhoun@lemmy.world
    5·
    15 days ago

    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.

  • yumpsuit@lemmy.world
    4·
    15 days ago

    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!