Trump admin plans to delay, eliminate limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in U.S. drinking water
Trump Admin Plans to Delay, Eliminate Limits on 'Forever Chemicals' in U.S. Drinking Water
So this seems good…
PFAS are linked with cancer, fertility issues, and developmental delays in children — yet the E.P.A. has moved to weaken regulations designed to protect Americans
so these guys are literally just mass murdering people with these decisions but if you even talk about how even one person responsible for this should probably die it's illegal
am I getting that right
Murder is killing 1 person. Killing entire communities is just good business.
Considering RFK took his family swimming in sewage, this might actually be their strategy for combatting autism.
No fluoride! Only lead!
I understand this is joke, but the F in PFAS "forever chemicals" is fluorine. You'd think the fluoride whackos would be all over this, after all it is a communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.
To be clear, a bit of fluoride in the water is fine, the problem is that they made synthetic polymers out of carbon and fluorine and they don't degrade and just accumulate in your blood and organs forever and disrupt whatever is normally supposed to be going on there.
They're putting man made horrors beyond my comprehension in the water to turn my frickin organs off!
who even benefits from poisoning the entire country? like what is the internal rationale for this, other than just "government bad"?
DuPont, and other corps. It's cheaper and easier to just dump PFAS
Just saw the video about PFAS and it's crazy that it has been going on for like 50 years now and literally nothing has been done. In China all of Dupont's executive staff would be shot for covering this up with their factories destroyed.
Yeah but these regulations are strangling small mom and pop businesses like Dow chemicals, 3m and BASF
Companies profit off of being able to dump their toxic waste anywhere.
Then health insurance companies profit off the health problems.
Doesn't effect anyone's ability to find employees because we have a surplus of workers (by design) so they can easily replace us like cogs in a machine when we break down.
RFK Jr. is really on a roll.
Can't believe I'm recommending this, but Veritaseum just put out a rather good video the other day about the history of the PFAS problem and how pervasive it is, info about the dangers. Long story short, I guess we all get to look forward to some thyroid cancer.
This video is worth sharing as agitprop alongside the news story. It's a good summary of the situation and pretty entertaining considering the subject.
Extrwmely fortuitous timing for Veritaserum, because this video looks like it took months to shoot and edit
I do like Veritaseum in part because their production quality is at the level of the old Discovery channel or 2000s TV in general when it was more documentary style than the reality tv style it became in the 2010s and ever since. I'm glad someone is still making quality nerdy, informative shit I can watch.
Just watched it yesterday and it’s well done. I was definitely surprised about the assessment that nonstick/Teflon cookware is not the primary source of contamination most likely due to the size of the molecules apparently. Link for those who have an hour to kill on the deep dive https://youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
The country can have a little carcinogens, as a treat.
Truth is current treatment techniques in most water plants will not be able to remove PFAS. The stricter limits will invariably cause some plants to disclose they are in violation not through any fault of thier own, but forever chems be forever chems and you can't bleach and coagulate them away. They just are there. However flagging it would be justifications of getting the money to fix it. It's just until then you have to disclose it on your Consumer Confidence Report.
You would need to completely rebuild plants to a more expensive type such as reverse osmosis plants. They would rather spend the money on Pissreal and global harassment than influx that kind of investment in infrastructure to unfuck crap-it-all-isms fuck ups..er freedoms. Then you have the increased costs of running a RO plant. In addition, changing the type of treatment is going to change the chemistry of the system, and caution needs to be made so there's not another Flint type situation.
This is all a face saving, cheap ass carpet sweeping measure. Over a trillion a year to blowing the world up and can't divert any of that to fixing our own shit. Lawsuits and meager settlements are already filed and paid so 3M isn't going to fix the damage. Might buy some plants one or two humble projects but not anywhere near enough to refit them with the equipment and capacity to remove PFAS.
Maybe someone should offer the
a glass of PFAS laden water and have him drink it to prove it's safety.Yea there are electrochemical methods of destroying PFAS that are pretty new but they are not cheap/commodity technologies yet. Eroding safety regs slows the development of this kind of technology because the potential market becomes smaller and investors don't want to invest as much.
Can’t fail the limits set by the regulations if there are no regulations
Nurgle patriots are in control. Embrace the rot.
get the DEI our of my water
Hey, you know whose fault it is white birth rates are down? Minorities!
In fact the only way this could be even more the fault of minorities is if the government finally does away with the affordable care act!
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I don't need to visit a car dealership anymore!? I can just lick water?
When will we start putting lead in water? I want that sweet delicious taste.
Worked for the romans