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US air force avoids PFAS water cleanup, citing supreme court’s Chevron ruling
(www.theguardian.com)
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So "federal regulators lack the authority" to order a cleanup, even though feds made the orders that led to environmental damage in the first place. Riiiiight.
This is nothing. Wait until you see what the corporations will do when they're told to stop polluting say the water source of a major city and they say fuck you to the EPA
It's gonna get so so so much worse
"Millions leave Chicago because Dow Chemical poisons the water table. When asked for comment a DOW chemical PR representative said: 'Yeah, suck a dick losers' "
The EPA can still take them to court with a jury over things like this, but they won't have the resources to take everyone to court.
So you still gotta be smart about it and not do something like completely wreck the water source for Chicago, because they'll use their limited resources to go after them.
But some small town no one cares about? Probably much easier.
You're talking about the same companies that own entire local governments. That get to choose the rules they play under in normal situations.
This is like nothing any human currently alive in America has experienced. It's worse than 1800s robber Baron America. It's the same attitude and people with (and I means this literally) million of times greater resources than the government.
The 44 years of dismantling and disrupting any power the government had is starting to pay off in spades.
The reality is, we'll look at my original comment and laugh at how naive and quaint it was. Like people saying "Trump will never win" then "How bad could he fuck it up really?.. and then..