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The bans, largely at the state level, touch most facets of daily life, prohibiting everything from bisphenol in children’s products to mercury in personal care products to PFAS in food packaging and clothing.

If successful, the public would almost certainly be exposed to much higher levels of chemicals linked to a range of serious health issues such s cancer, hormone disruption, liver disease, birth defects, and reproductive system damage, the plan’s opponents say.

The Trump Environmental Protection Agency move involves changing the way the agency carries out chemical risk evaluations, which would also pre-empt state laws that offer the one of few meaningful checks on toxic chemicals in consumer products.

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[–] WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social 77 points 1 day ago (6 children)

Why? How can this be a positive step? Aside from the obvious profit thing…

[–] Coldcell@sh.itjust.works 57 points 1 day ago (2 children)

That's the only step needed. If it profits the ruling class in any way, even tangentially, fuck all the suffering, pollution, collapse it causes the poor.

[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 3 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, but this is such a dumb take by the rich. They have to breathe the same air and drink the same water as everyone else. You don’t get to buy your way out of PFAs.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] sparky@lemmy.federate.cc 2 points 21 hours ago

Lmao, perfect. Great movie, by the way.

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

The poor need to rebalance this interest calculation for them.

[–] Bakkoda@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 day ago

This is way past greed as a business strategy or some kind of global market collusion shit. This is greed as a mental illness presenting in people who have way too much power/money/influence. It's nero (who wasn't actually near Rome at all) playing a Bop It! while he gets a diaper changed. It's sickness making policy decisions.

[–] iopq@lemmy.world 2 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Forever chemicals are forever because they are inert. Examples from comments like lead are not forever chemicals, the term refers to PFAS

There are some that still need to be banned because they are linked to negative health outcomes

[–] BillDaCatt@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

If you look at this from Turnip's point of view, it's about both profit and stalling or stopping any lawsuits related to these chemicals. A personal injury lawsuit is more difficult to prove if the use of those chemicals is not banned. It's about selfishness and helping his wealthy friends who will now owe him a favor.

[–] suigenerix@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[–] stardust@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 day ago

Its positive in that he is trying to create mutants so the world can feel more like Marvel. Or maybe The Thing.