Guess I can tip that barrel of mercury I've had in my garage into the drain without repercussion now. Thanks everyone!
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I love the taste of dioxin in my tap water!
Should rename it to EDA( Environmental Destruction Agency).
Or Environmental Freedom Force for short.
Or "The Gulf of America"
And the shareholders applauded like there was no tomorrow, and they were right.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
They need to change their name to Environment Destruction Agency.
One of my close friends got her doctorate last year and recently hired as a scientist at EPA. She is improving methods of surveying urban soils using remote methods like ground penetrating radar, this helps to inform landowners/potential developers the true conditions of the soil they are building on. A shame the government doesn’t think that’s important anymore.
She is improving methods of surveying urban soils
Correction, she was.
She hasn’t been layed off yet but, yea, only a matter of time…
Sounds like woke DEI garbage. Everyone knows plants need Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator. It’s got what plants crave.
It's got electrolytes...
The government is being run by the sorts of people who are doing the illegal dumping of hazardous waste that your EPA friend is trying to detect. Of course they don't want her to do it; they don't want to be held accountable!
Yea I get that, and explaining its usefulness will fall on deaf GOP ears, but for the record It’s not even hazardous waste…it’s the urban soils that tend to have a lot of organic carbon content from all the living shit and garbage used as backfill especially in east coast cities. Standard protocols for direct soil sampling don’t consider carbon as much as they should and also remote methods (like GPR) don’t measure total organic carbon. Not high stakes research but important to get a full picture of the soils on a building site.
A shame the government doesn’t think that’s important anymore.
Not just unimportant, sand in the gears of their capitalist steamroller. The true conditions of anything must not interfere with the advertised conditions.
and also the funding on research in general is going out the window, making people trying to enter stem industries all that unlikely. when its already very hard to enter stems as it is.
This is what you voted for protest-non-voters. Congratulations!
To us non-Americans this is a really bad look. Did you really do everything you could to prevent this? Anyway, we’re all here and we all have to deal with it now. And really, you / we didn’t start this. The wheels were already set in motion before most of our time. Fascism is the inevitable outcome of capitalism. But we must be the ones to take action and set things right and build a better world.
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I assume everything they will roll back is preventing companies from making more money.
Only select companies, and only In the short term. In the medium to long term it won't help them.
"Yeah, we know this chemical causes hypercancer but if we can put it in our food, it'll save 13¢/ton. Can ya give me a quick ol authorization there, guy?"
It's not always about the cost saving. Sometimes it's just because it gets more customers! Brominated flour, as an example.
I want to know if these people truly don't believe in climate change or they know it's so bad already that nothing can reverse it... and just don't care.
I think you are overthinking it. They don't even have climate change in their considerations, they are solely focused on the short term profits corporations can make from dismantling government regulations. That is how corporate cleptocracy works.
They think/know they’ll be rich enough to avoid the negative problems climate change will present, or they’ll be dead before it happens. They’re writing checks that the rest us will have to cash and laughing at us as we cheer for them to do so.
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What do the letters stand for then?
Enterprise Protection Agency
Extraction of Profits Agency
Environmental Putrification Agency
Enshitification Policy Agency
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Incase anyone out of the know about the head of EPA: Trump Ally, Ass-Kisser, Defending the shithead during the first impeachment hearing and sworn in after being selected by Trump. There you go.
Now you can not be surprised anymore.
He also went to the same highschool as I did. Of 900 kids in my graduating class 450 actually graduated...
Nothing good comes from that school, myself included lol
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Geez I hope somebody doesn’t whip out some amendment or other and explain things to this man in a way he’ll be sure to comprehend.
Unfortunately the majority of those amendment guys are on his side cheering him on.
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