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IMHO many of this stories (around lead but also other thinks) show less how "evil"/"reckless" the industry is but more about how broken the US law is wrt. regul
by dathinab 5y ago
IMHO many of this stories (around lead but also other thinks) show less how "evil"/"reckless" the industry is but more about how broken the US law is wrt. regulating things.
I most stories which still apply today it's often "oh in EU this is heavily restricted or forbidden or tax wise penaltized since a long time, in some
member state since before the EU was founded..
Not that the EU doesn't has there own problems.
But still especially wrt. chemicals the US non-regulation is often just outright absurd.
The reason I'm so annoyed by this as a non US citizen is that due the the huge influence of the US it's is nearly always affecting many non-US countries negatively and sometimes is outright forced onto them. (But so does the EU, especially wrt. some brain-dead copyright laws, but less often with serious well known health risks).
- infecto 5y agoI never researched why but I always found it interesting how much stricter chemical laws in the EU were compared to the US and then in the inverse how the US really clamped down on diesel compared to the EU where it was much more popular and in many ways less strict.
- dathinab 5y agoI'm not sure if the actual limit on exhaust put up by the EU are more lax then the ones but up by the US. But what was lax was the control, and what was ridiculous the consequences (or lack of such, at least short term) when wide spread manipulation was found. By over protecting certain companies some countries like especially Germany have maneuvered themself in quite a bad situation both image wise and economical wise. And it's not just cars in some other areas similar ill fated decisions are done too, where overprotecting certain companies impeded innovation and made that companies less able to compete on a global marked.