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. Pruitts 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
Chasstev365
(5,191 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)elleng
(131,391 posts)Judi Lynn
(160,682 posts)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)Blatantly, committing acts of evil and demonstrably reveling in it. It really is almost (literally) incredible.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)dismantling of environmental protections will create.
TeamPooka
(24,296 posts)Mr. Evil
(2,865 posts)They don't care how many people die.
Botany
(70,650 posts)How do you like your Tump vote now?
christx30
(6,241 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,073 posts)haele
(12,694 posts)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)this whole shitfest could come to a screeching halt any week now, the destroyers will act while they can