r/environment • u/silence7 • 1d ago

Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits | The Biden-era limits were designed to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, including a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/climate/chemical-industry-trump-pollution-exemption.html?unlocked_article_code=1.9U4.umM0.WkRzSBlB7QRB
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u/ztman223 1d ago

I say yes but only in the neighborhoods where the CEOs live.

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u/nedhamson 1d ago

Wants to increase cancer rates in USA

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u/silence7 1d ago

We had a war on cancer, but these past few weeks, cancer won the war. They've fired the researchers, and seem hell-bent on exposing people to as many carcinogens as possible.

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u/Ulysses1978ii 1d ago

Of course we need more microplastics and endocrine disruption.

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u/krav_mark 1d ago

How do these assholes sleep at night I will never understand.

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u/nihilistic-simulate 9h ago

If Biden magically stopped an asteroid from wiping out the planet, he’d reverse it and his cult would praise on high.