NEW: While all eyes are on Trump and DOGE, a bill recently introduced in both the House and Senate would cripple the EPA's ability to regulate. It's a very serious threat and experts told me it could pass www.propublica.org/article/legi... - ThreadSky

fastlerner.bsky.social • 2 days ago

NEW: While all eyes are on Trump and DOGE, a bill recently introduced in both the House and Senate would cripple the EPA's ability to regulate. It's a very serious threat and experts told me it could pass

https://www.propublica.org/article/legislation-targets-epa-science-toxic-chemicals

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lp7.bsky.social•2 days ago

📌

roberg89.bsky.social•2 days ago

This is essentially a soft repeal of TSCA (Toxic Substances Control Act)

sexcpotatoes.bsky.social•2 days ago

Could we try that without the slur, please?

pham60.bsky.social•2 days ago

What a catastrophe of stupidity.

richarddubourg.bsky.social•2 days ago

It's perfectly possible to argue that risk assessments on which policy towards hazardous chemical is based are overly cautious, but the idea that they should be thrown out altogether is just mind-boggling.

dseitz.bsky.social•2 days ago

This would backfire so badly it's actually kind of incredible it's even being considered.

bvh-s.bsky.social•2 days ago

Keep posting ideas on what we can do to help save EPA regs. Here in western NC we have one Senator who is hardline party line R and one who is Senator Wishy Washy. Thom Tillis will agree with constituents and make promises that he fully intends to vote against. Calls do not work here.

wargonopsid.bsky.social•2 days ago

They might not have the effect you want but I can tell you calls still filter into a sheet that tells the republicans how much money to spend in what district, so you can call often to a red senator and force them to spend $ at home in a “safe” district and less in a swing district.

antisocialworker77.bsky.social•2 days ago

They want to poison us all for profit.

There’s your “pro-life” party.

rammies34.bsky.social•2 days ago

Wake up people - we came up with the science to protect us from all of these things. And republicans want to get rid of the science all so a few people can make more money @bennet.senate.gov stand up and make noise

philipvernon.bsky.social•2 days ago

Though the US is a mid-tier, 2nd-world country (per relevant metrics) it has now embraced a DEMONSTRABLE 3rd-world indifference to its people.

stahlsusan.bsky.social•2 days ago

What is the Bill # of this piece of legislation? We can call our lawmakers to protest, but we need to know which bill to call attention to.

124wirenuts.bsky.social•2 days ago

Can we just start the big war already. Obviously living on earth is not going to get better for the commoner. We've peaked

truehomeguy.bsky.social•2 days ago

liripipe.bsky.social•2 days ago

It takes a professional-level wrecker to crash:

- the economy
- public education &
- environmental regulations

all in the same week. Guess no one told them killing off Americans by starvation, neglect & catastrophic floods / fires makes it harder to bleed us for tax money for billionaires.

peatbogrealtor.bsky.social•2 days ago

Cannot wait to get a daily face full of mercury and lead.

mvde1975.bsky.social•2 days ago

“IRIS, as the program is called, is the scientific engine of the agency that protects human health and the environment. Its scientists assess the toxicity of chemicals, estimating the amount of each that triggers cancer and other health effects. And these values serve as the independent,…

mvde1975.bsky.social•2 days ago

nonpartisan basis for the rules, regulations and permits that limit our exposure to toxic chemicals.”
#EPA #IRIS

kudiebee.bsky.social•2 days ago

Short term pain. When they go too far-and they will-our D reps will put legislation into place that allows ZERO pollutants, ZERO emissions. And when, not if, the polluting industries cry about all the job losses, we will say, “suck it, you wrote the bill that took science out of the calculation.”

fastlerner.bsky.social•2 days ago

The "No IRIS Act" targets a small EPA program that is the scientific engine of the agency. IRIS gauges the risk from chemicals and its 500+ assessments of toxic chemicals make up the biggest repository of this kind of science in the world. Its calculations underlie rules, permits & enforcement

fastlerner.bsky.social•2 days ago

the law would bar the EPA from using this science for any rule, regulation, permit or enforcement. Importantly, it would prohibit the EPA from using IRIS assessments for air toxics assessments, mapping and screening tools. This part would bring an end to a really important use of IRIS...

fastlerner.bsky.social•2 days ago

EPA uses the toxicity #s IRIS calculates to estimate the cancer risk around the country. That's how many polluted communities learn of the dangers they face. That's how the people of St. John learned that they had the highest cancer risk in the country https://theintercept.com/2017/03/24/a-louisiana-town-plagued-by-pollution-shows-why-cuts-to-the-epa-will-be-measured-in-illnesses-and-deaths/

fastlerner.bsky.social•2 days ago

after IRIS assessed ethylene oxide, communities around the country had the same experience, learning they had an elevated cancer risk due to local emissions. Some fought back and won!

& last year the EPA passed rules to reduce emissions of both chemicals https://www.epa.gov/hazardous-air-pollutants-ethylene-oxide/final-rule-strengthen-standards-synthetic-organic-chemical

fastlerner.bsky.social•2 days ago

Industry has long criticized IRIS for being slow and overstepping its authority. And they take issue with its science.

But IRIS' defenders say the criticisms mask a desire to protect industry profits rather than public health.

“It’s blatant self-interest” one veteran lawyer told me

lorifreshwater.bsky.social•2 days ago

So good to see you and your work here.

philipvernon.bsky.social•2 days ago

The expenditures required to rebuild a largely needed national and *professional* bureaucracy will be billions or more over the next generation.

Taxes will *have* to increase. The rubes can thank their orange goblin.

. . . And be assured, that bureaucracy *will* get rebuilt. (Bannon be damned.)

kaspergutman.bsky.social•2 days ago

'killing the underlying science' has become the go to position for the GOP in so many ways and in doing so it is going to harm and even lead to the unnecessary death of countless people but it will perhaps save industry a few pennies (even if t_g says pennies won't be minted anymore)

snowsue.bsky.social•2 days ago

Where is the furious emoji?

pilempoty.bsky.social•2 days ago

They also use it to set cleanup levels at Superfund sites. Without it, there is no way to know what is a safe cleanup standard for chemicals or radionuclides where there is no set standard in law.

bob636.bsky.social•2 days ago

Next on Trump’s list will likely be the burning of books!! This plays right into Republican efforts to eliminate any and all restrictions real or imagined to the rich getting richer!!!!😡😡😡

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