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submitted 23 hours ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/health@lemmy.world

EPA outlines effort to kill Biden-era rules as critics condemn RFK Jr and Lee Zeldin’s ‘hocus pocus’

The Trump administration has announced a plan to kill Biden-era drinking water limits on four Pfas “forever chemicals”, and to delay the implementation of standards for two other compounds.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing two separate rules to delay and rescind the limits. The rules must go through an approval process that can take several years, and almost certainly will be challenged in court.

The Trump administration’s plan comes just two years after the US Environmental Protection Agency set legally enforceable drinking water limits for six of the most dangerous Pfas compounds that have been studied. The chemicals include some of the most toxic substances, and are linked to a range of cancers and other serious health problems.

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[-] buttmasterflex@piefed.social 3 points 8 hours ago

They're taking the term "Teflon Don" a bit too literally

[-] Hayduke@lemmy.world 30 points 21 hours ago

Is there anything they can’t/wont fuck up? You would think they could get something right one of these times, statistically-speaking.

[-] AA5B@lemmy.world 2 points 10 hours ago

Them choosing someone’s profit over the health and future of citizens is not a surprise, but the doublespeak is especially strong with this one. Look at some of those quotes by ole brainworm: they truly have decided there’s no self-contradiction their followers won’t swallow

[-] GraniteM@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

They did stop printing pennies.

So that's, what, about 6.022x10^23 to one?

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 13 points 20 hours ago

Makes perfect sense when you consider their orders are to destroy America.

[-] JasonDJ@lemmy.zip 9 points 21 hours ago

They are doing exactly what they want to. Statistically, it's impressive they've been able to take blatent in-your-face corruption so far.

Like f'real no president has ever sued his own DoJ for billions of dollars. And he'll get it, too.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 36 points 22 hours ago

Yes, yes, but Harris once worked as a DA.

So this is what we get now. Somehow.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 15 points 21 hours ago

no no! she would have supported Israel.

[-] homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 9 points 21 hours ago

Right, that. So instead of some pushback we’re in with both feet.

It’s just simple logic, really.

[-] Gerudo@lemmy.zip 9 points 17 hours ago

It's got what plants crave!

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 1 points 16 hours ago

I strongly doubt that plants crave PFAS.

[-] xav@programming.dev 4 points 11 hours ago

You just miss the ref. Go watch Idiocracy.

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 hours ago

I got the reference, but that referred to electrolytes.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

That's because you're a woke evil leftist fact-lover!

[-] Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 points 13 hours ago

Guilty as charged.

[-] stretch2m@infosec.pub 13 points 21 hours ago

Burning in hell wouldn't be enough punishment for the destruction that man has wrought.

[-] FabledAepitaph@lemmy.world 4 points 20 hours ago

Is this the final straw we needed to make America great again?

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