Seattle Post-Intelligencer - The government wants to quit forcing companies to report small releases of toxic pollutants and allow them to submit reports on their pollution less frequently.
Saying it wants to ease its regulatory burden on companies, the Environmental Protection Agency on Wednesday proposed adopting a 'short form' that would excuse companies from disclosing spills and other releases of toxic substances...
Sean says:
Tell me this has nothing to do with two guys running the White House who are oil men. Just try and tell me that.
To which Adam replies:
Damnit! I want to, but I can't! This is bad, bad, bad. Bad GOP, BAD!
Sorry, Sean, I can't lie to you either. This is the administration attempting a reach-around to their friends in Big Business (esp. Big Oil, IMHO).
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Btw, by small quanities now the current standard, in case you didn't take the time to read the article, is 500#. They want this changed to 5000#. Um, there is some stuff that can make people have birth defects if they consume 5g of it.
Yes, and those people with the birth defects are called Republicans.
Zing!
I kid, I kid.
Seriously, though, what's the point in having an EPA if it's big business's bitch?
WTF?! i just had a huge argument with my dad about greenhouse and global warming (which, i'm not complaining about it getting warmer), and i don't care if the earth goes thru cycles and this is natural, but we ARE screwing up our planet with other stuff which may or may not contribute to the ozone hole as he contends, and so we do need to take responsibility for our actions or we will be seriously fucked, in which his thinking is that "oh no, nothing is wrong- it's a big conspiracy by the EPA.."
now after reading this crap, all i can say is "oh fucking god-christ....."
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