#deregulation

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MurderKorp

As regulations protecting the health and safety of Americans are stripped away, I find myself thinking a lot about the amorality of the marketplace.

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[saywhat-politics]

RFK, Jr., Once Poisoned by Mercury, Is Silent as EPA Weakens Rules against It

RFK, Jr. fought mercury pollution for years, but he is now in an administration that wants to make it easier for industries to dump it into

RFK, Jr., Once Poisoned by Mercury, Is Silent as EPA Weakens Rules against It

RFK, Jr. fought mercury pollution for years, but he is now in an administration that wants to make it easier for industries to dump it into the air and water

CLIMATEWIRE | The last time President Donald Trump tried to roll back a mercury regulation, he faced a high-profile opponent: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Kennedy railed against EPA at an August 2017 public hearing for going along with the Trump administration’s demands to repeal wastewater limits. He warned that allowing more power plant pollution to enter waterways would poison people through mercury-contaminated fish — a problem he experienced personally after a period of eating tuna.

"It is really troublesome for those of us who will suffer from your irresponsibility," Kennedy said at the time. "The law says the waterways of this country, the fisheries of this country, belong to the people."

Eight years later, Kennedy has been silent as the Trump administration is again rolling back those same mercury regulations, along with at least a dozen other pollution controls announced last week in what EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has called the agency's "biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history."

[odinsblog]

An absolute tragedy happened to innocent people and young athletes, and this is how Trump meets the moment? JFC.

He is, in real time, working out a way to deflect attention away from his dangerous deregulation policies.

[whydidisavethistomyphone]

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[onlytiktoks]

Trump officials plan to repeal limits on ‘forever chemicals’ in drinking water

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

[juicetrump2]

Trump Exempted Some of the Nation’s Biggest Polluters From Air Quality Rules. All It Took Was an Email.

In an unprecedented move, the administration has granted industrial facilities in 38 states and Puerto Rico a two-year reprieve from federal