Inhaling even small amounts of these pollutants — including mercury, alkylated lead and dioxins — can cause cancer, brain damage and other serious health effects.
All dems and independents voted against. All republicans voted yea. One dem and one rep didn’t vote.
I fucking hate our system. I hate people who vote republican. Pure evil and/or pure stupidity.
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The harm is the point — they see people who are harmed by this as unfit, and deserving of the harm.
Correct, it’s “only” going to harm poor people who live next to the factories and power plants. Fuck them for being poor.
Not to mention that if you are poor it is because Jesus doesn’t love you as much.
This shit circulates around the globe. It will harm everybody. That’s what’s so stupid and shortsighted about this crap. Then these idiots will wonder why a few of them have lung cancer 10-15 years from now. Surprised Pikachu face.
They don’t think that far ahead. They lack the fundamental ability to even comprehend those consequences. They only care about immediate results. Whatever is needed to justify those results will be used, even if it directly contradicts previous actions or positions.
Make America Genetically-mutated Again!
Giving Americans CANCER is PRO LIFE!
Even more to the point: every time we shutter a coal-fired power plant, the miscarriage rate downwind from it falls.
Most “pro-life” sentiment is about having an excuse to vote for racists, not actually trying to do anything to protect fetuses.
Question: Could this have been filibustered? You know, if Democrats had anything resembling a spine.
No, it’s being done under the Congressional Review Act, which isn’t subject to supermajority rules.
california gunna have to skywrite prop 65
Legislating science away. See how much Nature cares about your votes.
