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Trump admin moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws

• hn_acker 2mo ago
  The full title is: > Trump administration moves to block public from enforcing environmental protection laws
• java-man 2mo ago
  When will the general public realize that the goal of this administration is to dismantle the United States?
  • enragebait 2mo ago
    Loot, not dismantle. They did not invent the game, only new modernesque interpretations.
    • Zigurd 2mo ago
      There's no one single purpose to backing candidates that have a Trumpy agenda. Individual greed certainly plays a part. But if you are a former KGB man running a relatively weak, isolated rump of an empire, you're going to surf a wave if you see one. And if you have the goal of goading an ally into a really inadvisable war, you're going to use your compromising material while it's still relatively fresh.
• idontwantthis 2mo ago
  There is credible evidence that America's serial killer epidemic was directly caused by environmental pollution, especially heavy metals like lead and cadmium. Bringing back air pollution will bring back serial killers.
  • jimt1234 2mo ago
    Serial killers? Boring. If someone comes up with credible evidence that environmental pollution causes people to be trans, then we'll see some actual environmental protection. ... Sad, dude.
  • rsynnott 2mo ago
    ... Wait, is there? This is a fairly common hypothesis for _violence in general_ (it seems to rather neatly explain the big fall in violent crime in most of the developed world in the 90s/noughties, though it's a bit of a just-so story and the timing only really works if you squint at it), but the serial killer thing (in terms of very large numbers of them) seems to be a particularly American phenomenon; if it was heavy-metal linked you'd expect clusters in other heavily industrialised countries.