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turbinetree

(24,745 posts)
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 11:08 PM Sep 2017

Scott Pruitt says EPA will reconsider rule safeguarding communities from coal ash

Source: Think Progress

The Environmental Protection Agency plans to “reconsider” portions of a 2015 rule that provides safeguards for communities located near toxic coal ash waste sites, agency administrator Scott Pruitt said Wednesday in a letter to industry officials.

The clean water protections that Pruitt now wants to revisit marked the first substantive steps the EPA has taken to protect the public from coal ash, according to the Sierra Club. Pruitt’s decision “jeopardizes the safety of those communities that depend on waterways and groundwater supplies near where coal ash pits are located,” the environmental group said Thursday.

Coal ash has high levels of toxic heavy metals like arsenic, mercury, and lead, which can cause serious health problems, including cancer, kidney disease, reproductive problems, and birth defects.



Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/epa-to-reconsider-coal-ash-rule-06e766c96502/



This is not good.................with this other psychopath in power

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Judi Lynn

(160,682 posts)
3. OMG. So bad it doesn't sound possible.
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 11:29 PM
Sep 2017

They ALL should be swept away, immediately.

I thought George W. Bush's actions were unforgivable.

Trump is worse than evil, if possible.

They seem gleeful at their evil acts.

Dark n Stormy Knight

(9,776 posts)
10. Like Snidely Whiplash twirling his mustache.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 01:57 AM
Sep 2017

Blatantly, committing acts of evil and demonstrably reveling in it. It really is almost (literally) incredible.

CentralMass

(15,265 posts)
4. This son of a bitch should have to spend the rest of his days in one of the polluted $hitholes his..
Thu Sep 14, 2017, 11:34 PM
Sep 2017

dismantling of environmental protections will create.

Botany

(70,650 posts)
8. Hey! TN, WV, KY, OH, PA, NC, AL, WY, VA, and other coal fired power plants states ....
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 12:17 AM
Sep 2017

How do you like your Tump vote now?

haele

(12,694 posts)
13. Part of the GOP eugenics program.
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:25 PM
Sep 2017

Those "Poor Working Class Whites" in rural "Real American" communities haven't quite realized yet they were just put on notice that they are just as much a burden on those they elected to run this country like a good Xtian White Supremacist "MAGA" Business as those darker people and the Liberals they were originally going to get rid of.
Whomever the opiod epidemic doesn't kill, the Coal Ash and other toxic waste sites near their communities and unregulated water and food sources will.

Next on the chopping block, those Middle class Xburbans who thought their mid level professional and management jobs and their strip-mall prosperity church-going put them in the "favored population" category.

So far as the GOP management is concerned, if you can't pay for your own wellbeing, you're a sub-human moocher to be gotten rid of.
They'll just bring in immigrants they can either work to death or send "home" to do the dirty work that Americans are teaching their kids either to avoid or to ask for "too much" to hire.

I wouldn't be surprised at all if the GOP think tanks feel that no more than 150 million citizens is an optimal number in the US to "comfortably" support their profit margins in both business and resource extraction, and still be able to manage their own level of recreational comfort. Nor would I be surprised to find out that behind closed doors, they are working on trying to get the population down to that number in a short-sighted manner.

Haele

0rganism

(23,992 posts)
14. Mr. Pruitt has a hundred years of progress to undo, better pick up the pace
Fri Sep 15, 2017, 04:37 PM
Sep 2017

this whole shitfest could come to a screeching halt any week now, the destroyers will act while they can

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