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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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

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[-] Comrade_Mushroom@hexbear.net 66 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 6 points 3 days ago

Murder is killing 1 person. Killing entire communities is just good business.

who even benefits from poisoning the entire country? like what is the internal rationale for this, other than just "government bad"?

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago

DuPont, and other corps. It's cheaper and easier to just dump PFAS

[-] jackmaoist@hexbear.net 16 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Yeah but these regulations are strangling small mom and pop businesses like Dow chemicals, 3m and BASF

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 38 points 3 days ago
[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 13 points 3 days ago

i-love-not-thinking I wonder what the F in PFAS stands for?

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

Comrade that's not how chemistry works

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 17 points 3 days ago

twisted But tell a chud there's a Flourine atom in those chains and use it to get the regulations back.

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Sodium is spontaneously explosive in the presence of water and you let people put salt in your food?!?

[-] boiledfrog@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

It will work like that in my communist utopia!

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Poly-Fluoro-Akyl Substances

It's a class of human made molecules that have fluoride-carbon bonds

[-] Thallo@hexbear.net 40 points 3 days ago
  1. Get the fluoride out of the water so kids don't get autism.

  2. Fill water with chemicals that kill people so they definitely don't get autism.

[-] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 6 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Considering RFK took his family swimming in sewage, this might actually be their strategy for combatting autism.

[-] Llituro@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Dessa@hexbear.net 14 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

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

[-] Jew@hexbear.net 5 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 3 points 3 days ago

He sold out when he made the self driving car video which was just an advertisement for a shitty company though...

[-] Jew@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Ooh I did not see that. What a shame

[-] FrankLaskey@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

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

[-] HexReplyBot@hexbear.net 1 points 3 days ago

I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:

[-] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 20 points 3 days ago

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 brainworms a glass of PFAS laden water and have him drink it to prove it's safety.

[-] carpoftruth@hexbear.net 8 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

Can’t fail the limits set by the regulations if there are no regulations think-about-it

[-] Lavender@hexbear.net 31 points 3 days ago
[-] trompete@hexbear.net 21 points 3 days ago

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.

[-] IttihadChe@lemmy.ml 5 points 3 days ago

They're putting man made horrors beyond my comprehension in the water to turn my frickin organs off!

[-] sexywheat@hexbear.net 27 points 3 days ago

RFK Jr. is really on a roll.

[-] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 24 points 3 days ago

I was always told LATIN CULTURE was the reason we didn’t have clean drinking water. Guess Americans suffer from it as well.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmygrad.ml 14 points 3 days ago

LATIN CULTURE was the reason we didn’t have clean drinking water

I mean USA is taking much after the Romans, and they had lead pipes in aqueducts.

[-] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 11 points 3 days ago

Definitely the marimberos and not the CIA death squads to blame

[-] Sinisterium@hexbear.net 18 points 3 days ago

Nurgle patriots are in control. Embrace the rot.

[-] cannibalbanquet@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

get the DEI our of my water

[-] Evilsandwichman@hexbear.net 15 points 3 days ago

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!

[-] altphoto@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago

I don't need to visit a car dealership anymore!? I can just lick water?

[-] Civility@hexbear.net 9 points 3 days ago
[-] Hestia@hexbear.net 4 points 3 days ago

When will we start putting lead in water? I want that sweet delicious taste.

[-] Palacegalleryratio@hexbear.net 2 points 3 days ago

Worked for the romans

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