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Right wing traitors are boycotting them right now
Right wing traitors are boycotting them right now
Some of you guys never get tired of posting dumb shit. The EPA still functions and Biden's administration is in charge of it.
Still functions how?
It got effectively shut down under Trump, and then the circuit courts and SCOTUS started reducing the scope of its power immediately after Biden took office.
The EPA will have limited authority to even go after Tyson because the Roberts court handed to down a ruling last year that restricted its authority under the Clean Water Act.
Conservative ideology is hilarious. Preach deregulation for decades in spite of the historical documentation of what big business was like before the regulatory state was created. But when the chickens come home to roost, it's the fault of everything else but what you actually advocated for. I'm surprised nobody has blamed this clusterfuck on DEI yet.
You don't understand the EPA needs unlimited power. We also need to pay way more taxes because only the government is pure, flawless and can fix things. Without a carbon tax the planet is doomed.
Think about it like laws, if they would just pass more laws on murders and guns there would be no murders using guns. Evil republicans!
YesThat's gross.
*Don’t you mean a supporter of opportunities for POC? One outside of the stereotypical roles associated with limiting people on the basis of their race.One of the biggest cases that pertained to the EPA was brought by the interests of Clarence Thomas's * lol
The epa currently has a budget of $12 billion and a third of that is dedicated to water. But don't let facts interrupt your "conservatives are cancer" circle jerk.Still functions how?
It got effectively shut down under Trump, and then the circuit courts and SCOTUS started reducing the scope of its power immediately after Biden took office.
The EPA will have limited authority to even go after Tyson because the Roberts court handed down a ruling last year that restricted its authority under the Clean Water Act.
Conservative ideology is hilarious. Preach deregulation for decades in spite of the historical documentation of what big business was like before the regulatory state was created. But when the chickens come home to roost, it's the fault of everything else but what you actually advocated for. I'm surprised nobody has blamed this clusterfuck on DEI yet.
They were either purchased legally or they were straw purchases. You can't have it both ways.but ignore the fact that most of the guns used in urban crimes were purchased legally in more conservative areas that have laxer gun laws and don't track straw purchasers.
Drunk and Horny Rudy was one of the Sacklers lawyers. He used his pull to keep the Sacklers out of jail, which allowed them to transfer their wealth to protect it. That was back when Rudy was a decent lawyer, who did not fart COVID on his co counsels.I still don't understand how the Sacklers avoided prison.
The epa currently has a budget of $12 billion and a third of that is dedicated to water. But don't let facts interrupt your "conservatives are cancer" circle jerk.
Drunk and Horny Rudy was one of the Sacklers lawyers. He used his pull to keep the Sacklers out of jail, which allowed them to transfer their wealth to protect it. That was back when Rudy was a decent lawyer, who did not fart COVID on his co counsels.
I am just as guilty as most of Americans and focus on shit like dogs getting shot in gravel pits, to see this country is slowly moving to becoming an Oligarchy, because the media keeps us distracted from the real issue, which is the massive amount of bribes, errr I mean campaign contributions that keep the power in the hands of the few, who never have to pay the price for their wrongs.
Until we take money out of politics, this country is fucked.
tHe EpA hAs $12 BiLliOn!
EPA’s Budget Cut Shrinks Staff to Smallest Since 1989
As GOP intensifies oversight, agency vows to continue with mission.www.govexec.com
The Right Wing’s Endless War on the U.S. EPA
No one wants the environment damaged any more than anyone wants to see violence or crime. We need a new approach to protecting the planet, but that will not happen by starving agencies of resources.news.climate.columbia.edu
In literally every single budget proposal Republicans want massive cuts to the EPA. And compared to the financial resources of the corporations they must regulate, $12b is a drop in the bucket, and now with their time-honored "shut down the Government over budget proposal" strategy, these cuts have continuously whittled away at the EPA's ability to do its job, Congress adds more responsibilities knowing it has a smaller staff, the SCOTUS determines they lack the ability to make or enforce regulations, all at the behest of "conservative" political ideology...put forth by people funded either directly by billionaires, or via Super PACs.
Then Project 2025 proposes an altogether dismantling of the Administrative State, which you can bet your @ss the EPA is a top target.
BuT mUh BuDgEt CuTs!1!1tHe EpA hAs $12 BiLliOn!
EPA’s Budget Cut Shrinks Staff to Smallest Since 1989
As GOP intensifies oversight, agency vows to continue with mission.www.govexec.com
The Right Wing’s Endless War on the U.S. EPA
No one wants the environment damaged any more than anyone wants to see violence or crime. We need a new approach to protecting the planet, but that will not happen by starving agencies of resources.news.climate.columbia.edu
In literally every single budget proposal Republicans want massive cuts to the EPA. And compared to the financial resources of the corporations they must regulate, $12b is a drop in the bucket, and now with their time-honored "shut down the Government over budget proposal" strategy, these cuts have continuously whittled away at the EPA's ability to do its job, Congress adds more responsibilities knowing it has a smaller staff, the SCOTUS determines they lack the ability to make or enforce regulations, all at the behest of "conservative" political ideology...put forth by people funded either directly by billionaires, or via Super PACs.
Then Project 2025 proposes an altogether dismantling of the Administrative State, which you can bet your @ss the EPA is a top target.
The Republican party is a genuine threat to humanity.
These are the kind of issues that really piss me off.
BuT mUh BuDgEt CuTs!1!1
Do any of your sources explain the OP would have been avoided if the EPA was given more money?
My post was a response to someone claiming the EPA is no longer functional. So you have no source that shows the Tyson incident could have been avoided if they had a larger budget?You're the one that vaguely hand-waved at a number as if it proves some kind of point. The EPA has had budget cut, resulting in staff shrinkage, regulatory ability rolled back, and responsibilities added despite both of those things, clearly meant to bog down their ability to check corporate practices.
It's no coincidence the Clean Water Act has essentially been gutted:
Supreme Court Guts Clean Water Protections, Putting Wetlands, Rivers, Public Health At Risk —
Statement by American Rivers Contact: Amy Souers Kober, 503-708-1145 In today’s ruling on Sackett v. EPA, the Supreme Court dramatically narrowed the scope of the Clean Water Act, undoing protections that have safeguarded the nation’s waters for over 50 years. Because it erases critical...www.americanrivers.org
No, but people here vote for a party that wants to get rid of environmental and consumer protections, ie, regulations, because of meaningless wedge issues.