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EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections

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Re: EPA Seeks to Eliminate Critical PFAS Drinking Water Protections

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Veritasium had video explaining about PFAS and environment protections that were needed to keep people/animals from being sick. Somewhere around minute 23 in video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SC2eSujzrUY

Minute Earth has one that’s more concise: https://youtu.be/H3aFzQdWQTg

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Does anyone know why this is done? What is the reasoning here? Is this defendable in any way?

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This is probably a big part of it. Environmentalists are not their voters. Basically attacking everything "leftists" are for, whether it's a good idea or not.

It used to be that environmental conservation was a part of conservative ideology, but MAGA isn't anything like what conservatism used to be in the US.

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Countless lives over the next decades are going to be lost due to decisions being made by this administration. Deaths and illnesses that otherwise would have prevented using existing frameworks and systems had they not been destroyed.

This is a form of political violence.

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Does anyone know why this is done? What is the reasoning here? Is this defendable in any way?

While the reason is not stated, Occam's razor demands we look for the simplest explanation that ties together all actions of this administration.

And that seems to be dismantling the US as a military and technological superpower - a self-inflicted Morgenthau plan, if you will. We are left to speculate why a US government would want to dismantle the US, and who would benefit.

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Does anyone know why this is done? What is the reasoning here? Is this defendable in any way?

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> As for people getting sick and dying, they either don’t care, or they want people to get sick and die.

Healthcare providers and insurance companies are corporations too: you can get rich by treating more people.

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

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This is probably a big part of it. Environmentalists are not their voters. Basically attacking everything "leftists" are for, whether it's a good idea or not. It used to be that environmental conservation was a part of conservative ideology, but MAGA isn't anything like what conservatism used to be in the US.

Wasn't the EPA started by Nixon? Why are they so against it? It doesn't seem like some hyper-woke thing to me, but I guess I'm a dumb lefty.
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