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The USA Potato<p><strong>“Another Big Lie”: Trump’s EPA Plans to Stop Regulating Greenhouse Gases</strong></p> <p>Donald Trump is coming for the “holy grail” of climate regulations. As multiple media outlets reported this week, the administration plans to roll back the “endangerment finding,” an Obama-era Environmental Protection Agency decision at the center of the government’s ability to address climate change. On paper, the endangerment finding states that greenhouse gases like methane […]</p> <p><a href="https://murica.website/2025/07/another-big-lie-trumps-epa-plans-to-stop-regulating-greenhouse-gases/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">murica.website/2025/07/another</span><span class="invisible">-big-lie-trumps-epa-plans-to-stop-regulating-greenhouse-gases/</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Add <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/SovereignTribalNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SovereignTribalNations</span></a> to the list of 25 states resisting <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a>'s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BudgetCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BudgetCuts</span></a> !</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeCommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeCommunities</span></a> could lose $24.5B under <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> administration proposal<br>If upheld by the courts, the proposed freeze on <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FederalGrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FederalGrants</span></a> would affect nearly every tribe </p><p>by Amelia Schafer </p><p>Excerpt: " 'Nearly all Tribes would be affected by a federal grant freeze, with many facing the prospect of losing tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars — funding that is critical for supporting some of the most historically underserved communities in the United States,' the report concluded. </p><p>" 'When the federal government withholds funding from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Tribes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tribes</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> people, it’s not just a policy change. It’s a violation of those commitments — putting essential services at risk and undermining Tribal governing capacity.'</p><p>"A federal appeals court will decide if the administration has the legal authority to mass-suspend the grants, with arguments set in coming months in a lawsuit filed by the state of New York against President Donald Trump and his top administrators.</p><p>" 'as litigation around OMB’s funding freeze continues, it is essential that federal decisionmakers recognize the unique basis of funding for Tribes and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmerican" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmerican</span></a> people,' the report states. 'Funding to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IndianCountry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IndianCountry</span></a> is rooted in longstanding, legally-binding agreements between the United States and sovereign Tribal nations — not race, climate, or DEI.'</p><p>"At the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, the OMB issued a sweeping order announcing a halt to federal grants nationwide, throwing tribal programs into turmoil.</p><p>"Although the grant freeze was temporarily halted, the administration continues to push for its implementation, and tribes continue to report difficulties in accessing the already-approved funds, the report notes.</p><p>"The bulk of the at-risk funding is dispersed through programs such as the Department of Health and Human Services [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DHHS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DHHS</span></a>], the Bureau of Indian Affairs [<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BIA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BIA</span></a>] and the Bureau of Indian Education under the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce and the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalProtectionAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalProtectionAgency</span></a>. </p><p>"If the funding freeze clears legal hurdles, critical projects across the country will be at risk, the Brookings report said. These projects include a $35 million grant to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OglalaSioux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OglalaSioux</span></a> Tribe for <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/broadband" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>broadband</span></a> development, a $3 million grant to urban <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeHealth</span></a> board for community health worker training, and a $200,000 grant to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chickahominy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chickahominy</span></a> Indian Tribe for preliminary <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/engineering" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>engineering</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environmental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmental</span></a> work towards a <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/childcare" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>childcare</span></a> center. </p><p>" 'This is the building block of how the U.S. government pays back tribes for the land it took,' Maxim said.</p><p>"The report does not include the sweeping cuts approved under Trump’s so-called '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigBeautifulBill" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BigBeautifulBill</span></a>' by Congress, which includes cuts to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Medicaid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Medicaid</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FoodStamps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FoodStamps</span></a> and other social programs that include Native people as well as others, Brookings officials said.</p><p>"The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. Maxim co-authored the report with Glencora Haskins, research associate and applied research manager."</p><p>Read more:<br><a href="https://ictnews.org/news/tribes-could-lose-24-5b-under-trump-administration-proposal/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ictnews.org/news/tribes-could-</span><span class="invisible">lose-24-5b-under-trump-administration-proposal/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TribalSovereignty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TribalSovereignty</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CulturalGenocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CulturalGenocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RespectTheTreaties" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RespectTheTreaties</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpLies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpLies</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpBudgetCuts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpBudgetCuts</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TrumpSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpSucks</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FirstNations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FirstNations</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/StolenLand" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StolenLand</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandBack" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LandBack</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeAmericanNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeAmericanNews</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NativeCommunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NativeCommunities</span></a></p>
A.Stringer<p>"The first <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EarthDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EarthDay</span></a> in 1970 sparked a movement in the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/UnitedStates" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>UnitedStates</span></a> that led to the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CleanAirAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanAirAct</span></a>, the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CleanWaterAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanWaterAct</span></a> and the creation of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EnvironmentalProtectionAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalProtectionAgency</span></a>. Today, the U.S. may be run by those who seem willing to squander the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/economicopportunities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>economicopportunities</span></a> of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/greeneconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greeneconomy</span></a>, but <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cities</span></a> around the world are already seizing them."</p><p><a href="https://www.newsweek.com/if-nations-wont-fight-global-warming-cities-can-will-opinion-2061588" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">newsweek.com/if-nations-wont-f</span><span class="invisible">ight-global-warming-cities-can-will-opinion-2061588</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/netzero" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>netzero</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/greenagenda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>greenagenda</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/emissions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>emissions</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pollution</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climatecrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatecrisis</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/climatechange" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>climatechange</span></a><br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Greencities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Greencities</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/environmentpolicy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmentpolicy</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/SadiqKhan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SadiqKhan</span></a></p>
Bicycling Monterey 💚🌎🌍🌏<p>"My takeaway from this story is that all of us need to rethink using chemical pesticides at our homes and businesses. Even so-called organic pesticides like Bacillus thuringiensis, or BT, are highly toxic to monarchs and other butterflies.”—Pam Marino / <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://newsie.social/@pammarino" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pammarino</span></a></span>, <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MontereyCountyNow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MontereyCountyNow</span></a> <a href="https://www.montereycountynow.com/blogs/opinion_blog/monarchs-face-an-uphill-battle-for-their-survival-it-s-up-to-us-to-help/article_cf7fe0b8-e8d8-11ef-b7c8-9f30411eb64b.html#tncms-source=mosaic" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">montereycountynow.com/blogs/op</span><span class="invisible">inion_blog/monarchs-face-an-uphill-battle-for-their-survival-it-s-up-to-us-to-help/article_cf7fe0b8-e8d8-11ef-b7c8-9f30411eb64b.html#tncms-source=mosaic</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/butterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>butterflies</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MonarchButterflies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonarchButterflies</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/XercesSociety" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>XercesSociety</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MontereyCounty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MontereyCounty</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/MonarchSanctuary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MonarchSanctuary</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PacificGrove" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PacificGrove</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EnvironmentalProtectionAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalProtectionAgency</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CaliforniaDepartmentOfFishAndWildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CaliforniaDepartmentOfFishAndWildlife</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/CDFW" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CDFW</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/USGeologicalService" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USGeologicalService</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/insecticides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>insecticides</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/fungicides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fungicides</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/herbicides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>herbicides</span></a> <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/PyrethroidInsecticides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PyrethroidInsecticides</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>Notorious US <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChemicalPlant" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChemicalPlant</span></a> polluting water with toxic <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFAS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PFAS</span></a>, lawsuit claims </p><p>Complaint says <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Chemours" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Chemours</span></a> factory dramatized in Hollywood movie <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DarkWaters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DarkWaters</span></a> continues to pollute <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestVirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestVirginia</span></a> river </p><p>by Tom Perkins, January 27, 2025</p><p>"The chemical giant Chemours’s notorious West Virginia PFAS plant is regularly polluting nearby water with high levels of toxic 'forever chemicals', a new lawsuit alleges.</p><p>"It represents the latest salvo in a decades-old fight over pollution from the plant, called Washington Works, which continues despite public health advocates winning significant legal battles.</p><p>The new federal complaint claims <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WashingtonWorks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WashingtonWorks</span></a> has been spitting out levels of PFAS waste significantly higher than what a discharge permit has allowed since 2023, which is contaminating the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/OhioRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>OhioRiver</span></a> in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ParkersburgWestVirginia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ParkersburgWestVirginia</span></a>, a town of about 50,000 people in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Appalachia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Appalachia</span></a>.</p><p>"The factory was the focal point of a Hollywood movie, Dark Waters. It dramatized the story of how the pollution widely sickened Parkersburg residents, and the David v Goliath legal saga in which a group of residents and attorneys took on Chemours, then part of DuPont.<br>The findings ‘highlight the importance of careful scrutiny of novel chemicals’, said Irene Jacz, a study co-author and Iowa State economist.</p><p>"An epidemiological study stemming from the case blew the lid off of the health risks of PFAS, and ultimately cost <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DuPont" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DuPont</span></a> about $700m.</p><p>"Though the landmark case still reverberates across the regulatory landscape, the suit started almost 25 years ago, concluded in 2016, and Chemours’s pollution continues. The new lawsuit is part of other legal actions related to the facility that have filled the gap left by weak regulatory action, local advocates say. The never-ending struggle 'wears you out', added Joe Kiger, a Parkersburg resident who was one of the original litigants in 2001.</p><p>"'We have put up with this for 24 years, and [Chemours] is still polluting, they’re still putting this stuff in the water,' Kiger said.</p><p>"The new lawsuit, filed by the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WestVirginiaRiversCoalition" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WestVirginiaRiversCoalition</span></a>, alleges 'numerous violations' since the level of PFAS the company is permitted to discharge per a consent order was lowered in early 2023. Among the contaminants are <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFOA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PFOA</span></a>, a PFAS chemical to which virtually no level of exposure in drinking water is safe, the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalProtectionAgency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EnvironmentalProtectionAgency</span></a> (<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a>) has found. It also includes <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GenX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GenX</span></a>, a compound for which the EPA has similarly found very low exposure levels can cause health problems.</p><p>"The EPA ordered Chemours to take corrective action, but the company has done nothing in response, and the agency has not taken further action, the suit states. The complaint does not mention drinking water, which is largely filtered. But the suit alleges the ongoing pollution prevents residents from using the river for recreation.</p><p>"In a statement, Chemours said the 'concerns are being addressed' through the consent order. It also noted it was renewing discharge permits with the state, and was working with regulators 'to navigate both the consent order and the permit renewal process'.</p><p>"'Chemours recognizes the Coalition as a community stakeholder and invites the Coalition to engage directly with the Washington Works team,' a spokesperson wrote.</p><p>"The EPA and West Virginia Rivers Coalition declined to comment because litigation is ongoing.</p><p>"Kiger and others who have taken on Chemours and DuPont railed against the company, accusing it of 'greed' and putting profits above residents’ health. Some in Parkersburg refer to the waste as the 'Devil's Piss'.</p><p>"'They do what they can to make money,' said Harry Deitzler, a West Virginia attorney who helped lead past lawsuits. </p><p>"'The officers in the corporation sometimes don’t care about what’s right and wrong – they need to make money for shareholders and the lawsuits make everyone play by the same rules.'</p><p>"Still, most residents are not aware of the ongoing pollution, those who spoke with the Guardian say. Chemours is a large employer that still wields power locally, and spends heavily on charitable giving. Many remain supportive of the company, regardless of the pollution, Kiger said.</p><p>"'That’s the kind of stuff you’re up against,' he added. 'People put a blind trust in them. It could be snowing out and Chemours would tell everyone it’s 80F [27C] and sunny, and everyone will grab their tan lotion.'</p><p>"The saga began in the late 1990s when the plant’s pollution was suspected of sickening nearby livestock, and an investigation by attorneys revealed the alarming levels at which PFAS was being discharged into the water and environment.</p><p>"A class action lawsuit yielded about $70m in damages for area residents in 2004, but the litigation did not prove DuPont’s PFAS pollution was behind a rash of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cancer</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KidneyDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KidneyDisease</span></a>, stubbornly high cholesterol and other widespread health problems in the region. </p><p>"Instead of dividing the settlement up among tens of thousands of residents, which would have only provided each with several hundred dollars, the money went toward developing an epidemiological study with independent scientists to verify that widespread local health issues were caused by DuPont’s pollution.</p><p>"The move was a gamble that ultimately paid off – the study of about 70,000 people showed by 2012 that PFOA probably caused some forms of cancer, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ThyroidDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThyroidDisease</span></a>, persistently <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HighCholesterol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HighCholesterol</span></a>, pregnancy-induced <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hypertension" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypertension</span></a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/autoimmune" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>autoimmune</span></a> problems. </p><p>"Subsequent studies have shown links between the chemical and a host of other serious health problems – <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BirthDefects</span></a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/neurotoxicity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>neurotoxicity</span></a>, kidney disease and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LiverDisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LiverDisease</span></a> – that residents in the area suffered.</p><p>"DuPont and Chemours in 2017 settled for $671m in costs for about 3,500 injury suits, and have paid more to install water-filtration systems throughout the region. Separately, Chemours in 2023 settled with the state of <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Ohio</span></a> for $110m for pollution largely from Washington Works.</p><p>"The EPA and state regulatory agencies have at times been staffed with former DuPont managers or industry allies, and litigation has been the only way to get any meaningful movement, said Rob Bilott, the attorney who led the original class-action suit.</p><p>'"It’s infuriating,' Bilott said. 'It took decades of making DuPont documents and internal data public, and getting the story out through movies, news articles, books and public engagement, and that’s what finally pushed the needle here. This is the impact of citizens forcing it through decades of litigation.'</p><p>"The latest lawsuit is a citizen’s suit under the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CleanWaterAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CleanWaterAct</span></a>. Such suits give citizens the power to ask a judge to enforce federal law when a polluter is violating it and regulators fail to act.</p><p>"The lawsuit asks a judge to order the company to pay $66,000 for each day it has been in violation, which is stipulated in the permit. That would total around $50m, but the main goal is to stop the pollution.</p><p>"The EPA has acknowledged Chemours is violating the law, but has 'taken no further enforcement action regarding Chemours’s violations as of the date of this complaint', the suit reads."</p><p>Source:<br><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/27/chemours-pfas-pollution-lawsuit" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/environment/20</span><span class="invisible">25/jan/27/chemours-pfas-pollution-lawsuit</span></a></p><p>Archived:<br><a href="https://archive.ph/p3wA6" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">archive.ph/p3wA6</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Environment</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PFASPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PFASPollution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PollutionRunoff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PollutionRunoff</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WaterIsLife</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DevilsPiss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DevilsPiss</span></a></p>
Darth Tiktaalik<p>With the Republican hostility towards environmental regulations and regulatory bodies I feel like reminding people why the environmental protection agency exists to begin with. </p><p>That thing that's on fire here is a river, which caught fire the year before the founding of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EPA</span></a> due to heavy pollution. <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/environmentalprotectionagency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environmentalprotectionagency</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>environment</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CuyahogaRiver" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CuyahogaRiver</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Cleveland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Cleveland</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/ohio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ohio</span></a></p>
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