A Texas county is taking steps to declare a state of emergency and seek federal assistance over farmland contaminated with harmful “forever chemicals,” as concerns grow over the safety of fertilizer made from sewage.
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In charge of regulations & oversight and penalizing corporations killing people with toxic products, byproducts and yes, waste. Before that we literally had rivers of fire.
Shocker! Who could’ve guessed Texas adequately sterilizing dillodirt ( treated human sewage used Who could’ve guessed as agricultural topsoil and sold under that brand name in Texas) wasn’t within the shittiest states wheelhouse. If you’re pardon me a pun.
Wait, I thought Texas previously considered that a hand out and refused government assistance. They just need to pull up those bootstraps and solve it on their own. Is the manure
spread from Ted Cruz talking so much.
I feel for these Texans but have they tried magical thinking? This has eliminated other troubling problems like climate change, inflation, American soft power, and (just today) nuclear security - all w/out the gov’t paying a dime. Magical thinking = more sweet, sweet coin for Elon & friends.
If it were a blue state, no federal assistance would be provided. Concern about the environment sounds "woke". Trump/Musk don't want to be distracted from their sacred mission of threatening their allies.
I don’t know how America solves this divide. These people have been scammed. Their fathers were scammed. But the voting majority of them keep voting for scammers and will point a gun at anyone who dare try to help or educate.
There is that old saying...
Don't mess with Texas!
And thats right, I mean its not kind to mess with stupid! 😀
Seriously they figured out NOW that it goes into the ground water? Here in Germany for example that practice got limited almost 4ß years ago for that very reason!
Farms are corporations these days. This isn't the county. This is rich farm corporations looking for a handout so they can socialize what was clearly a poor business decision.
Among other things, the article says “President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law had provided $2 billion in funding to address PFAS and other contaminants in drinking water.” Those $$ may be slashed by the current admin/musk’s doge. Sad.
Sustainable environment? Public health? Fed assistance? This district voted in Nov to end all of the above, and the criminal regime is now bulldozing accordingly. In a just world, they'd suffer consequences. In the real world, given this NYT piece, the regime will intervene to say 'in your face!'
Another perfect example of Trump allowing sh*t to roll downhill without any thought on the consequences.
Biden puts $2 billion aside to help with this potential disaster and in less than a month Trump & Musk have blown it all up in the name of efficiency?!? #antitrump #antielon #antimaga
You know MAGA doesn't think the shit will happen to THEM. And even when it does, they'll lay down, lap it up, and ask for more of whatever hell Musk and Trump are shoveling.
I thought states were now going to handle disasters. Or is that only for blue states, red states will continue to be socialists and receive tax dollar support from the rest of the nation.
So MAGA Texas w/ many cheering DOGE tearing down environmental agencies now want federal assistance . The same MAGA state who is having a major measles outbreak w/ many supporting RFK & slashing the CDC. This is real rich. I guess we are cool with federal assistance when it benefits me but not you
Good luck getting help from the Trump administration.
I laugh in the general direction of all the Trumpettes - be careful what you wish for.
For everyone else…stand and fight against the Orange One and the other squatters in your Whitehouse.
Sorry- in the age of Trump
There is no federal assistance for anything, there are no “forever chemicals”, and if there were they’re on private property.
Besides…it’s Texas, they should know better since they voted for Trump.
Farmers warned officials about forever chemicals, & had protested against it. Texas officials were the monkeys that said “The company has fulfilled all the necessary paperwork & regulations per state of Texas.” When you fight for no red tape this is what the greedy mean.
That's just unamerican! Good thing the current office, that most texans voted for, will completely neglect this nonsense, unless they can somehow profit from it 🤷♂️
_Call the EPA
_Sir, there's no EPA.
_What? What happened?
_trump fired everyone.
_Why he would do that?
_Campaign promise.
_Who would vote for someone who promised that?
_We did. johnson county voted 3 to 1 for trump. _That was antifa to make republikkkans look bad
What's this all about now? I thought protecting the environment and federal assistance was communism. Has Soviet spies taken over Texas state government? 😱
Every farm in Maine has PFAS. It's in our water and our private wells. I live in the largest metro area in Maine and it's detected in our water supply in every direction so it's not just the rural farms, it's made its way into everything.
Texas farmland poisoned by 'forever chemicals' from sewage-based fertilizer. Who knew turning poop into profit would backfire? 💩🌾 #ToxicHarvest #ChemicalChaos
Guidance from the Trump Department of Agriculture is for farmers to wash the soil in their fields to remove forever chemicals and dump the waste on neighboring farms because that’s what the President would do.
Ok, please read the article and not just the headline. This is not a 'one county in Texas' problem, biosolids (yes, human poop) are used as fertilizer all over the country, and have been since the 70s. The issue is the PFOS and PFAS (forever chemicals) that are also in the biosolids.
I see the trump administration giving them as much help as they need because they voted so heavily for him
OR
The trump administration will use them as a whipping post for the rest of the duration of the country because we all know they are not leaving office peacefully now.
Does Texas know what they'll do when there's no more federal government to provide them with financial assistance when they experience a state of emergency?
Maybe these people should stops voting red and vote for a party that tries to protect the environment.
This is FAFO …. They’ve voted red for decades. We shouldn’t bail them out. Deal with your consequences and uninformed voting.
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Waste?
Also Texas: Oh shit, we have a problem. Quick. Let’s ask Uncle Sam to bail us out.
spread from Ted Cruz talking so much.
I think not. Call your smart ass smug Governor
Fuck off
Pull yerself up by the bootstraps.
Send them bootstraps
Of course, they'll keep farming anyway, and it will poison everyone who eats their stuff.
Johnson County, Texas bought the ticket, now they can take the ride.
You can find your bootstraps by bending over.
Don't mess with Texas!
And thats right, I mean its not kind to mess with stupid! 😀
Seriously they figured out NOW that it goes into the ground water? Here in Germany for example that practice got limited almost 4ß years ago for that very reason!
This is very concerning. If it’s happening there it’s happening in many other places too. This is the food we all survive on.
Biden puts $2 billion aside to help with this potential disaster and in less than a month Trump & Musk have blown it all up in the name of efficiency?!? #antitrump #antielon #antimaga
You voted for this .
- the rest of us
stop voting against yourselves🤡
I guess no one‘s going to look out for food safety with RFK Junior now
We’re all going to get a brain worm
I laugh in the general direction of all the Trumpettes - be careful what you wish for.
For everyone else…stand and fight against the Orange One and the other squatters in your Whitehouse.
They also want to pay nothing into it and to deny others access to the same.
This is wholly consistent with their brand of governance.
These are people that smeared shit in the halls of Congress. You give too much credit.
Give less.
There is no federal assistance for anything, there are no “forever chemicals”, and if there were they’re on private property.
Besides…it’s Texas, they should know better since they voted for Trump.
Really yer f ed
_Sir, there's no EPA.
_What? What happened?
_trump fired everyone.
_Why he would do that?
_Campaign promise.
_Who would vote for someone who promised that?
_We did. johnson county voted 3 to 1 for trump. _That was antifa to make republikkkans look bad
Dear God, the irony… And let me know how that works out for ya…
Let Texas pay for it.
They never think anyone should get it
I hope it yields fields and fields of growth.
I then hope those Trump-suplorting, "anti-socialist" that want to dismantle the very protections they seek, can feast. I hope they eat shit.
Instead of holding your hand out, you might as well hold it on your arse Texas.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/27/climate/epa-pfas-fertilizer-3m-forever-chemicals.html
OR
The trump administration will use them as a whipping post for the rest of the duration of the country because we all know they are not leaving office peacefully now.
This is FAFO …. They’ve voted red for decades. We shouldn’t bail them out. Deal with your consequences and uninformed voting.