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Trump officials quietly move to reverse bans on toxic ‘forever chemicals’ (www.theguardian.com)

submitted 10 months ago by HellsBelle@sh.itjust.works to c/news@lemmy.world

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The bans, largely at the state level, touch most facets of daily life, prohibiting everything from bisphenol in children’s products to mercury in personal care products to PFAS in food packaging and clothing.

If successful, the public would almost certainly be exposed to much higher levels of chemicals linked to a range of serious health issues such s cancer, hormone disruption, liver disease, birth defects, and reproductive system damage, the plan’s opponents say.

The Trump Environmental Protection Agency move involves changing the way the agency carries out chemical risk evaluations, which would also pre-empt state laws that offer the one of few meaningful checks on toxic chemicals in consumer products.

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[–] charade_you_are@sh.itjust.works 45 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

How do people become such pieces of shit? Actually, pieces of shit have a positive benefit for the world. These motherfuckers are just dead inside to extremes I hope I never know.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 37 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do people become such pieces of shit?

Chrystia Freeland, author of Plutocrats, says that the present trend towards plutocracy occurs because the rich feel that their interests are shared by society:

You don't do this in a kind of chortling, smoking your cigar, conspiratorial thinking way. You do it by persuading yourself that what is in your own personal self-interest is in the interests of everybody else. So you persuade yourself that, actually, government services, things like spending on education, which is what created that social mobility in the first place, need to be cut so that the deficit will shrink, so that your tax bill doesn't go up. And what I really worry about is, there is so much money and so much power at the very top, and the gap between those people at the very top and everybody else is so great, that we are going to see social mobility choked off and society transformed.

[–] My_IFAKs___gone@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

There is no magical way out of this — there will be blood.

It'd really suck if they became so out of touch with reality that they forgot what pitchforks and Halifax Gibbets are. Suck for them, I mean.