Chemical Makers Sue Over Rule to Rid Water of ‘Forever Chemicals’
Chemical Makers Sue Over Rule to Rid Water of ‘Forever Chemicals’
In practice, this means 3M is continuing to create harm from the risks they spent decades covering up
I do like how their argument basically boils down to "You obviously don't understand how much it will cost us to clean up the giant toxic mess we spent so much money trying to hide."
Then they'll have to do what they say they do best: innovate and be efficient.
That’s always their argument.
Dumping trash in the ocean?
Asbestos?
Cigarettes?
Chemicals in the ground?
DDT?
Carbon in the atmosphere?
"You obviously don't understand how much it will cost us to clean up the giant toxic mess we spent so much money trying to hide."
Which also means line goes down. That is unprecedented, and it'd lower the quality of their lives. Think about the rich people!
So, when do we eat them?
They had decades to prepare their legal team for this. I don’t expect them to just roll over and accept responsibility.
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There's no way this one ends up being only billions; they literally coated the entire surface of the ocean.
That’s somewhat reassuring. Thanks!
Happy 1-year anniversary on Lemmy! Mine's coming up in a couple of weeks.
It sounds like their only argument is “it’s expensive”, which I find somewhat comforting because then it sounds like they at least agree with the science.
It’s a shame lawmakers don’t put stipulations in that they cannot trickle down those costs to the consumers. It’s not our fault, and we shouldn’t be put in a damned if you do and damned if you don’t position.
Can we form a class-action lawsuit to sue anybody who raises our rates over this? Legit question.
That's always their argument and try to spin it as a US problem.
"You'll remove a LOT OF JOBS and make everything more expensive if you ban child labor!"
The conservatives ethos in a nutshell.
Doing the right thing is expensive, and the only thing in the world that actually matters is money, therefore we should be allowed to do the evil thing, otherwise you hate freedom…or something.
This crime will last for generations - will its reward last generations too? These assholes should die penniless, and have literally nothing to leave their heirs. And those heirs should be audited for the source of any money they make.
Enough of letting these guys have a legacy. Their names should be dragged through the mud and their children sent to public school.
And their children made to drink from public water supply**
"If only the pesky government would stop intervening in the free market, we mega-corps would've all signed up years ago to voluntarily fix the pollution problems we've spent decades covering up... But because you're telling us to, we don't want to." /s
Paraphrasing of course, but this is basically their defence - which is just a tad bit shoddy if you ask me. If they didn't need this law to get their act together, then why is this law having to be made because they didn't get their act together?
The government could just auction off the rights to pollute and make sure that the amount up for auction is within nature's carrying capacity. Then let the companies bid and let the markets do their thing. Then the government can say the market has spoken and come down hard on those polluting to much and defrauding the market.
You want us to stop poisoning the world? But that's too hard! I don't wanna! It's too much work! You can't make me!
"Can we at least keep doing the microplastics thing?"
These chemical makers should be sued to oblivion for poisoning us all.
You misspelled tortured. Fuck these cynical assholes!
How's it going there capitalism?
...yea.
Conservatives did this. And they will continue to do this until they are stopped.
But its what we crave!
Why won't the plants grow?
Utilities have also challenged the stringent new standard, questioning the underlying science and citing the cost of filtering the toxic chemicals out of drinking water.
I'm glad I'm on a well
Unless your well is drawing from an uncontaminated aquifer that isn't recharged by rainwater, that doesn't really help you. This class of chemicals wound up pretty much everywhere.
I was referring to the utilities response not the pollution itself. You're not wrong.
"Stop forbidding us to poison poor people!"
Oh mate, they're poisoning literally everyone
But the rich can avoid the tap water...