EPA outlines effort to kill Biden-era rules as critics condemn RFK Jr and Lee Zeldin’s ‘hocus pocus’

EPA outlines effort to kill Biden-era rules as critics condemn RFK Jr and Lee Zeldin’s ‘hocus pocus’

The Trump administration has announced a plan to kill Biden-era drinking water limits on four Pfas “forever chemicals”, and to delay the implementation of standards for two other compounds.

The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing two separate rules to delay and rescind the limits. The rules must go through an approval process that can take several years, and almost certainly will be challenged in court.

The Trump administration’s plan comes just two years after the US Environmental Protection Agency set legally enforceable drinking water limits for six of the most dangerous Pfas compounds that have been studied. The chemicals include some of the most toxic substances, and are linked to a range of cancers and other serious health problems.

  • Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
    415·
    8 days ago

    Yes, yes, but Harris once worked as a DA.

    So this is what we get now. Somehow.

  • Hayduke@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    8 days ago

    Is there anything they can’t/wont fuck up? You would think they could get something right one of these times, statistically-speaking.

    • Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish
      13·
      8 days ago

      Makes perfect sense when you consider their orders are to destroy America.

    • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
      10·
      8 days ago

      They are doing exactly what they want to. Statistically, it’s impressive they’ve been able to take blatent in-your-face corruption so far.

      Like f’real no president has ever sued his own DoJ for billions of dollars. And he’ll get it, too.

    • AA5B@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      Them choosing someone’s profit over the health and future of citizens is not a surprise, but the doublespeak is especially strong with this one. Look at some of those quotes by ole brainworm: they truly have decided there’s no self-contradiction their followers won’t swallow