"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps."

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[–] 125 points 1 month ago (12 children)

it's going to take fucking decades to even begin to unfuck this place...

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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago* (9 children)

    yea, see how well texafloribamassippigia does on their own

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  • [–] 12 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    It would be really funny in a heartless way to see all the red states collapse. Big "I fucking told you so" opportunity.

    Unfortunately, it would take a long time and a lot of innocent people would die. Also they'd probably start wars

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Blue states just need to stop giving money to the federal government and the red states will very quickly get back in line.

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    [–] 57 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    So they're going to include the costs my business has to pay for increased health and life insurance premiums?

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    [–] 40 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Holy shit. I've seen Saturday morning cartoon villains who were more subtle than this.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    You're right. I have been trying to rationalize the simplicity of Captain Planet villains to make the show relevant enough to make a new live action series. Our capitalistic overlords may have opened up the story line.

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  • [–] 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    When will they realize that money is useless when you're dead?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    One of the noted traits required to build incredible amounts of wealth is that they would rather die on top watching the world burn, than save the world from burning and lose wealth/status/rank.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 month ago* (4 children)

    So it's the Corporate Cash Protection Agency now?

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  • [–] 19 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Seriously. Human lives or not, how is not considering pollution protecting the environment? Humans are not the only living things in the environment.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    billionaires have their bunkers, they dont' care about what fresh hell they create on the surface.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    Yeah but before that they have their private islands and valleys that they keep pristine so they and only they can go do stuff in it. They turn into environmentalists overnight when talking about the land they play in. Mostly shooting animals, but some light atving also.

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    its just evil

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  • [–] 15 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Conservatives did this. May they suffer the worst effects of it for the remainder of their valueless lives.

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  • [–] 14 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    EPA exists only to save human lives/illness. Protecting the commons as well as private victims. It should exist for that function.

    Headline is saying EPA should no longer exist, if all rules that protect people will be removed.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    The quiet part loud... Holy fuck.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    As a restaurant owner, having indoor toilets takes away space from tables, and costs me money. People should just shit in the streets instead. Indoor toilet regulations are just woke radical left hatred of America. Cholera is covered by health insurance anyways, and woke fake-pandemic commies complaining about it should just inject some bleech if they don't want to die like they deserve.

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  • [–] 10 points 1 month ago

    "Basic Economics"

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago

    Good job everyone.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Life is cheap. Profit is the God we pray to, no matter what anyone else tells you. This goes beyond left or right and democrat or republican. It's a corporation/billionaire thing. And they're currently winning.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Trump wants Americans to die so Russian scum can move in.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    Would that actually work? I don’t know much about how well funded the Russian government is, but from the small amount of knowledge I have, it doesn’t seem as if they have much power themselves to take on another country (at least long term). They’re already using their resources for Ukraine.

    This current administration is so incompetent, evil, and or delusional, that whatever plans they may have, they just won’t work out in the end long term. Unfortunately, too many people could die and many more may suffer if things get too far. Hell, even if we all suddenly mobilize today, painful sacrifices will need to be made; either direction will suck. We’ll just have to choose which “suck” we’d rather live with.

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