Red Mosquito

Good thing the Paris treaty is back on!

Bi_3 wrote:Good thing the Paris treaty is back on!

Russia is part of Europe?!

elliseamos wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Good thing the Paris treaty is back on!

Russia is part of Europe?!

That was certainly the key takeaway here

Bi_3 wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

Bi_3 wrote:Good thing the Paris treaty is back on!

Russia is part of Europe?!

That was certainly the key takeaway here

I'd consider that progress, but it would also further the point to have Europe even less prominently on the chart, no?

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"Some places were very dirty, but if I returned to them months later, they were still clean," McGregor said.
"Other places would get dirty every single week, and I'd need to clean them up dozens of times per year.
Throughout all of this, I learned where every single canyon, tree, and bush was in my park."

"Climate action is a group project," he tweeted. "There will be no hero that will emerge from the fog to save us from ourselves.
To preserve this planet, we'll need a billion climate activists."

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/18/epa ... ene-oxide/

Still not done reading this, but I thought it was worth sharing.

elliseamos wrote:https://theintercept.com/2021/03/18/epa-pollution-cancer-ethylene-oxide/

Still not done reading this, but I thought it was worth sharing.

when you are done reading pls come back and summarize in no more than 5 bullet points

96583UP wrote:

elliseamos wrote:https://theintercept.com/2021/03/18/epa-pollution-cancer-ethylene-oxide/

Still not done reading this, but I thought it was worth sharing.

when you are done reading pls come back and summarize in no more than 5 bullet points

That might be a while but so far:
1) Chemicals bad
2) Trump EPA deliberately useless
3) Texas loves pollution
4) Probably Russia
5) Glenn Greenwald would have written an even longer story to make the same points (except the Russia part)

elliseamos wrote:

96583UP wrote:

elliseamos wrote:https://theintercept.com/2021/03/18/epa-pollution-cancer-ethylene-oxide/

Still not done reading this, but I thought it was worth sharing.

when you are done reading pls come back and summarize in no more than 5 bullet points

That might be a while but so far:
1) Chemicals bad
2) Trump EPA deliberately useless
3) Texas loves pollution
4) Probably Russia
5) Glenn Greenwald would have written an even longer story to make the same points (except the Russia part)

Bi_3 wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

96583UP wrote:

elliseamos wrote:https://theintercept.com/2021/03/18/epa-pollution-cancer-ethylene-oxide/

Still not done reading this, but I thought it was worth sharing.

when you are done reading pls come back and summarize in no more than 5 bullet points

That might be a while but so far:
1) Chemicals bad
2) Trump EPA deliberately useless
3) Texas loves pollution
4) Probably Russia
5) Glenn Greenwald would have written an even longer story to make the same points (except the Russia part)

good morning, sunshine.

elliseamos wrote:

96583UP wrote:

elliseamos wrote:https://theintercept.com/2021/03/18/epa-pollution-cancer-ethylene-oxide/

Still not done reading this, but I thought it was worth sharing.

when you are done reading pls come back and summarize in no more than 5 bullet points

That might be a while but so far:
1) Chemicals bad
2) Trump EPA deliberately useless
3) Texas loves pollution
4) Probably Russia
5) Glenn Greenwald would have written an even longer story to make the same points (except the Russia part)

I've finished it now.

Cross out #4 & #5 and replace them with "the problem is worse than we thought" and "Biden's EPA can try to change things, but the companies have a head start on hiding/changing data" respectively.

How did Trump exert influence over the EPA? He could barely get the FDA to pump the breaks on their stupidity.

Plummeting sperm counts, shrinking penises: toxic chemicals threaten humanity (by Erin Brockovich)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... -brokovich



Phthalates have always sounded like one of those 'online mom group' panics, but maybe there is something more here. Maybe if these chemicals are altering sex characteristics in the womb they are...

simple schoolboy wrote:How did Trump exert influence over the EPA? He could barely get the FDA to pump the breaks on their stupidity.

records show that his epa staff suggested these companies take another look at their numbers to see if they measured wrong and then years of data were changed to lower the output of this toxin by extreme amounts.

elliseamos wrote:

elliseamos wrote:

96583UP wrote:

elliseamos wrote:https://theintercept.com/2021/03/18/epa-pollution-cancer-ethylene-oxide/

Still not done reading this, but I thought it was worth sharing.

when you are done reading pls come back and summarize in no more than 5 bullet points

That might be a while but so far:
1) Chemicals bad
2) Trump EPA deliberately useless
3) Texas loves pollution
4) Probably Russia
5) Glenn Greenwald would have written an even longer story to make the same points (except the Russia part)

I've finished it now.

Cross out #4 & #5 and replace them with "the problem is worse than we thought" and "Biden's EPA can try to change things, but the companies have a head start on hiding/changing data" respectively.

thank you

i will go back to voting republican

i think that's the takeaway if i read this correctly

elliseamos wrote:

simple schoolboy wrote:How did Trump exert influence over the EPA? He could barely get the FDA to pump the breaks on their stupidity.

records show that his epa staff suggested these companies take another look at their numbers to see if they measured wrong and then years of data were changed to lower the output of this toxin by extreme amounts.

EPA at this point is basically lindsay lohan's asshole after a frat party

Five points for Hufflepuff:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/202 ... ouse-says/

Where are the promised grid level storage solutions? California is decomissioning its last nuclear plant and will be charging 'surge' pricing from 4 to 9pm in an attempt to balance demand with solar plants going offline in the evenings.