Oh, wait, the plastics industry will take it to the Supreme Court and the rule will be on hold for the next decade.

Taxpayer money gonna clean up their undevelopable land without paying a dime.

Medium or rare.

What we have done to this beautiful planet.

These chemicals will be in our bodies forever and babies and children were the most vulnerable. I wonder if ANY of the manufacturing big shots care??

as a long time parrot owner, i have watched this crap for decades. we’ve known that long.
and we sat back and watched it get harder to tell if it was teflon, as well as watching more and more applications.
for a while they were putting it in/on everything. 2 most ridiculous applications- stain blocker on clothing, and toilet bowl cleaner. yes, folks, they wanted to put it straight into the water.
after a few stories went out of ppl buying a new sweater, having their bird come sit on their shoulder and keel straight over, that idea died out.
dont think the bowl cleaner ever made it to the market, but if it did, it died quickly. i’m sure it wasnt cheap.

go joe. let’s give him 4 more yrs so he can fix fucking everything.

last night about plastics pollution and persistence in the environment and our bodies. Basically we're f**ked because the quantity of plastics in production is set to triple by 2050. Babies are now born with plastics in their blood. Breast milk contains plastics. Literally everything, everywhere on the planet now contains plastics. The concentrations are increasing.

Your organically raised cows and vegetables? Contain plastics. Grow your own vegetables? The soil and water contain plastics. The rain contains plastics. The air all over the world contains plastics. Regulate them away? All the industry does is slightly modify the compound and give it a new name that is not in the regulated list and so they evade restriction while years of testing is required to get the new compound restricted. When it does get listed the cycle of evasion begins again. You can be sure the plastics/chemical industries have the substitutes mapped out ahead of time.

but we might be able to keep it from getting even worse. Time will take care of PFAS pollution, if bacteria can evolve to live in lethal water at decommissioned nuclear sites, they can evolve to eat that stuff, it's a great energy source.

It turns out it's rather easy to decrease them to practically nil in drinking and cooking water, just heat the water to almost boiling, what cooks call a simmer, cool it, and pass it through a coffee or charcoal filter. The PFAS nanoparticles stick together when heated and become large enough to be trapped by simple filtration, dropping the PFAS load to nearly nothing.

I know there's been more recent research but last year

and while we might fuck things up enough to kill ourselves off, the planet will continue on just fine, new, weird and wonderful forms of life emerging as niches ready for exploitation open up.

And other weird, uncommon diseases. Mostly dogs, but a few cats as well, even though we have cooked for the dogs for years instead of feeding commercial food.

I think they've been the canaries in the coal mine.