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One environmental attorney said that the EPA proposal "prioritizes chemical industry profits and utility companies' bottom line over the health of children and families across the country."

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[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If a life is worth $10,000,000. And PFAs are reducing lives by at least 3 years depending on the chemicals. That's roughly 4% of a life. If 77% of the population drink tap water in some form, that's about 267,000,000 people losing $400,000 of their lives. And that's before you factor in $50 billion dollars in health care costs that come from PFAs, and will only increase. (We'll leave that out)

To put it simply maybe we should sue the government in a class action lawsuit for $106.8 trillion if they are not putting protections in place to insure those people aren't stolen from.

[–] GooseGang@beehaw.org 8 points 2 months ago

Let’s say they don’t care about other people at all (which honestly at this point is pretty clear) the direct economic losses due to this change will be major. Short-term profit over long-term wellbeing, similar to the pandemic.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

Fluoride in water? Ahhhh get rid of it! It's improving children and adults' dental hygiene too much!!!

Other stuff proven harmful to long term health? Meh, whatever.

[–] WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 months ago

As with the Department of War, I propose that the name of the EPA be changed to the Environmental Destruction Agency.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

Breaking News Trump does as much evil as humanly possible everyday and nobody is going to stop him

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You’d think the environmental lawyer and world’s greatest health expert RFK jnr or his worm pilot would have something to say about this.

[–] RFKJrsBrainworm@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I've got fucking nothing for this bullshit... there's hardly enough brain in here to sustain life left alone thoughts. It's absolutely bananas

[–] firewyre@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Why does he want to kill everyone?