Summary
The Trump administration plans to reverse hundreds of state-level bans on toxic PFAS “forever chemicals” and other harmful substances by changing EPA risk evaluation rules.
The move would pre-empt state laws restricting chemicals in consumer goods, weakening protections under statutes like California’s Prop 65.
Critics warn this will increase public exposure to carcinogens and hormone disruptors. The Trump EPA will assess chemicals by specific use rather than overall risk, likely exempting many products.
Though implementation may take years, advocates expect ongoing pressure from states and consumers to limit toxic chemical use.
Why? Wtf is the point?
Cruelty
For social policies? Yes.
For business regulation policies? No.
It’s money, money now and money fast. Fuck the future, the now is profitable. That’s what these people want. To these business owners the only thing that matters is “line go up each quarter”. They don’t care that in the future there won’t be as many people to sell to because they’ve destroyed the environment and made everyone sick.
These people need some adjusting.
I mean you could extrapolate that to cruelty, fossile fuel businesses have know for decades the harm they are causing
Cruelty =/= psychopathy.
Cruelty implies the motive for the action is to inflict pain and suffering.
Industries like the fossil fuel business aren’t extracting, refining, and selling those polluting fuel sources because they WANT to see the world burn. They just don’t care that it does.
The world isn’t a Saturday morning cartoon where the evil oil Barron laughs manically as he watches run-off flow into the rivers killing wildlife, rubbing his hands together with glee as he enjoys watching the world burn before him.
No, in the real world the evil oil executives sit around in a board room looking at spreadsheets discussing revenue, operating costs, and sales projections for the next quarter and are somewhere between stressed over deadlines and bored out of their minds, and just thinking about how they’re going to spend their next bonus.
And yet.
I mean, a literal demented rapist is rolling back environmental protections.
It is cruel to have an indifference to suffering, suffering they are causing
The point is to remove any restrictions on business and industry, regardless of the harm it does to the people or the planet.
Money and power is all that these people hold sacred, and it’s impossible for them to ever have enough. I personally find it very amusing that Christians worship Trump when he’s the antithesis of their original savior.
Quarterly profit
Although I’d still cast my stone back at the government. This is exactly one of the scenarios capitalism does not do well. We should have a government serving the needs of the population, not the corporations, that shapes the market so capitalism will use its short term incentives to achieve longer term societal good.
The problem is government failing to shape the markets capitalism operates in, government captured by corporate interests, government abuse of authority for personal enrichment rather than societal, government turning the tables on voters as a manipulator means to an end instead of the voice of the people to serve