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Sure, but I think it might be a long, rough and potentially violent fight. People in power usually don't give it up easily.
Crime Tyson Foods dumps 87BILLION gallons of toxic waste including cyanide, blood and feces into US rivers and lakes
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Sure, but I think it might be a long, rough and potentially violent fight. People in power usually don't give it up easily.
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Well, when Republicans put people like Scott Wheeler, who was open about ending the EPA and removing environmental protections, at the head of the EPA, it's deserved. Let's not forget, Wheeler bragged about having 68% less fines for environmental violations. After he was removed, they put a coal lobbyist in charge.
How'd that go? Well, they loosened restrictions on coal power plants to release toxic chemicals, like mercury, into waterways. We all need a little more mercury in our waterways, it enhances the flavor.
Coal power plants are a perfect example of needing regulation. Did you know, up until 2015, it wasn't a requirement for coal plants to store their ash in lined pits. You'd think that since coal ash has stuff like lead, cadmium, arsenic, and a bunch of other nasty chemicals, a pit liner would make sense. 91% of all ash pits at coal powered plants have poisoned local groundwater. Obama gave them a timeline to fix it, but guess who repealed it?
Republicans have earned the reputation for being willing to destroy the environment in the pursuit of profits.
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Bullshit excuse. Create a regulation that makes releasing wastewater from their operations directly into streams and rivers illegal. Levy draconian fines for blatant violations like this. Fund the EPA to enforce these regulations. Want to take a guess which party would do everything they could to stop these things?
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So go ahead and correlate that GOP rolling back regulation created that. Go ahead and find the exact one which "enabled" Tyson foods to do this. That line of thinking is why a toilet takes how long and how much to be made in SF ? 750K was it and like two years. Throwing everything at the wall and hoping it sticks is a stupid approach.
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I don't know what the fuck you're talking about with toilets in SF.
What rollbacks of regulations create situations like this?
Trump Administration Cuts Back Federal Protections For Streams And Wetlands
People's health is secondary to corporate profits in nearly every Republican backed policy that affects either of those things.
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Come on buddy, you know you're on the wrong side of this.
North Carolina allows manure mounds ‘as big as a house’ on factory farms
The state’s uniquely lax regulation permits chicken waste to collect outdoors – but there’s no easy way to complain about it
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Republicanism and right wing idiocy in general serve to shield shitty (lol) irresponsible money grabbers to the point where case-by-case objections to environmental health hazards are needed to be raised at national level.
Garbage Republican politicians are only there to oversee disregulation at the expense of people too stupid to vote against it so that a few richers can benefit.
That's the whole game.
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Come on buddy, you know you're on the wrong side of this.
North Carolina allows manure mounds ‘as big as a house’ on factory farms
The state’s uniquely lax regulation permits chicken waste to collect outdoors – but there’s no easy way to complain about it
Republicanism and right wing idiocy in general serve to shield shitty (lol) irresponsible money grabbers to the point where case-by-case objections to environmental health hazards are needed to be raised at national level.
Garbage Republican politicians are only there to oversee disregulation at the expense of people too stupid to vote against it so that a few richers can benefit.
That's the whole game.
This is actually a perfect addition to my response, because part of the reasoning behind rolling back federal regulations for the Trump administration was:
"All states have their own protections for waters within their borders, and many regulate more broadly than the federal government," Wheeler told reporters on a conference call before the announcement."
Yea. And many don't. That's the point of the federal regulations.
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So no direct regluation that was ruled back that enabled this like I asked? A lot of those were challenge in court, Trump also ordered a review of clean water treatment plan.
As far as the toilet and over regulations since you're out of loop peep this.
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from 2022, regulations do need to be in place but there is a such thing as too many and too much.Come on buddy, you know you're on the wrong side of this.
North Carolina allows manure mounds ‘as big as a house’ on factory farms
The state’s uniquely lax regulation permits chicken waste to collect outdoors – but there’s no easy way to complain about it
Republicanism and right wing idiocy in general serve to shield shitty (lol) irresponsible money grabbers to the point where case-by-case objections to environmental health hazards are needed to be raised at national level.
Garbage Republican politicians are only there to oversee disregulation at the expense of people too stupid to vote against it so that a few richers can benefit.
That's the whole game.
The more power the government gets worse it can get for people. Government starts taking peoples lands, maybe whoever wrote at regulation had good intention and then some other crappy humans are now in charge and abuse that.
- Eminent domain entitles the government to take land for public use.
- Property owners are rarely successful in stopping governments from taking their property under eminent domain. But the U.S. Constitution gives them the right to “just compensation."
- Property owners may dispute the price offered by the government and negotiate for a better deal.
https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/1011/what-to-do-when-the-government-wants-your-land.aspx
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What? The federal government removing 10's of thousands of bodies of water from the EPA mandated pollution standards, and letting states deal with it. @Siver! already posted a perfect example of why letting states handle it doesn't work.
Ah yes. I posted evidence of the consequences of wide ranging removals of federal regulations. And you posted a clip from a Bill Maher show that has NOTHING to do with this issue.
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He specifically talks about regulations and you're using a wide net to point fingers. Predictable you might as well say " that was the wrong thing to do they should of not of done that"
I will help you even more with what I posted before. Here I will lay it out for you, make sure to read slow and connect the dots.
Bill Maher Attacks 'the Real Deep State' of Government Regulators, Administrators, and Zoning Officers
The comedian blames America's endless reams of regulatory red tape for slowing down new wind farms, housing, and public toilets.
Specifically, the comedian called out federal permitting regulations for taking nearly two decades to approve a transmission line that will connect a wind farm in Wyoming with consumers in Nevada, and he mocked San Francisco's bureaucracy for turning a privately gifted public toilet into a $1 million project.
That same San Francisco bureaucracy, Maher notes, takes 627 days to permit a new home.
The situation in San Francisco might actually be even worse than Maher's description. A recent state audit of the city's housing policies and practices put the average time for fully permitting a residential project at 1,128 days—a little over three years. Reason has covered multiple episodes where the city fined developers for building more units than the zoning code allows and ordering existing, occupied (but unpermitted) homes to be dismantled.
Maher has a history of complaining about the pettier forms of government regulation and America's failure to build big projects like we used to. His latest rant hits some novel notes by focusing on the ways that the country's complex, highly participatory regulatory process—where an endless parade of bureaucrats, third-party groups, and concerned citizens all get a say—makes building an unnecessarily long, expensive prospect.
https://reason.com/2023/10/30/bill-...egulators-administrators-and-zoning-officers/
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At least when the democrats sin against their party its sinning... with the Republican party is outright what they say they believe in.
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funny trump did that too
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It's almost as if these things are done on purpose seeing as they happen so often.
Tyson Foods dumps 87BILLION gallons of toxic waste scientists reveal
But the study by the Union of Concerned Scientists looked at just two percent of meat processing plants nationwide leaving the total figure terrifyingly uncertain.www.dailymail.co.uk
Tyson Foods dumps 87BILLION gallons of toxic waste including cyanide, blood and feces into US rivers and lakes- enough to fill 132,000 Olympic-size pools
The chemicals have been linked with cancer, blood disorders, thyroid disease and brain defects in children
The sheer scale of the poison flowing into the country's rivers and waterways is starting to emerge after scientists took a look at one of America's biggest meat processors.
Tyson Foods released 87 billion gallons contaminated with cancer-causing cyanide, nitrates, chloride, phosphorous and oil directly from 41 plants into public waters across 17 states between 2018 and 2022.
The toxic water would cover 165 square kilometers to a depth of two meters and fill three Olympic-sized swimming pools every hour.
But the study by the Union of Concerned Scientists looked at just two percent of meat processing plants nationwide leaving the total figure terrifyingly uncertain.
The report's authors slam feeble federal regulation and state houses in the pocket of a 'Big Ag' which can pollute with impunity.
'As a multibillion-dollar company, Tyson can treat even hefty fines and penalties for polluting the environment as simply the cost of conducting business its way,' they wrote. 'This has to change.'
'There are over 5,000 meat and poultry processing plants in the United States, but only a fraction are required to report pollution and abide by limits.'
Agriculture consumes more fresh water than any other human activity, and meat processors use nearly a third of that, leaving it awash with toxic chemicals, blood, feces, micro-organisms and pathogens including E. Coli and Enterococcus.
WATER POLLUTANTS DISCHARGED FROM 41 TYSON PLANTS: 2018 TO 2022
POLLUTANT TOTAL DISCHARGE (lbs)
CHLORIDE138,073,780
TOTAL DISSOLVED SOLIDS82,506,383
SULFATE 40,263,163
NITROGEN 34,248,180
TOTAL SUSPENDED SOLIDS 27,644,162
BIOLOGICAL OXYGEN DEMAND (MICRO-ORGANISMS)15,242,691
CHLORIDES AND SULFATES 13,460,291
SODIUM 7,564,800
PHOSPHOROUS 5,061,259
OIL AND GREASE 3,951,391
CHEMICAL OXYGEN DEMAND 2,439,085
CARBONACEOUS 1,041,834
FLUORIDE 76,127
ALUMINUM 57,476
IRON 41,768
BORON 31,759
TOTAL RESIDUAL CHLORINE 8,548
ZINC 5,300
COPPER 1,031
BARIUM 799
FOAMING AGENTS 770
MANGANESE 749
CYANIDE 510
HYDROCARBON 364
TOTAL PHENOLS 165
SELENIUM 164
NICKEL 161
CHROMIUM 73
SILVER 15
MERCURY 0.01
ALL POLLUTANTS 371,722,803
Fifteen states suffer drinking water with higher than permitted levels of nitrates which lead to blood disorders and brain defects in infants, and have been estimated to cause up to 300 cases of cancer a year in Iowa alone.
Half of the contaminants found in the study were dumped into the waters of Missouri, Illinois and Nebraska, including 8,000 tons from Tyson's biggest plant at Dakota City, just 500 feet from the Missouri river.
'This Tyson plant helped put me through college and supports a lot of migrant workers,' Rogelio Rodriguez of Conservation Nebraska told the Guardian.
'But there's a dark side like the water and air pollution that most people don't pay attention to because they're just trying to survive.
'If regulations are lax, corporations have a tendency to push limits to maximize profits, we learnt that during Covid.'
Tyson is poisoning people's water supply and causing health problems.
I don't expect anything to be done about this because it is a multibillion-dollar company.
We'll keep giving these rich and powerful the benefit of the doubt though, otherwise we'll get called conspiracy theorists.....
