The EPA had strong limits on its use until the Trump administration reversed them; now the agency wants to ban it

  • partial_accumen
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    08 months ago

    And?

    And if you’re not happy with a $2000+ housing expense, I doubt you will pay for a $1000+ water bill.

    • @jeffw@lemmy.worldM
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      48 months ago

      Not everything is solved with regressive taxation policy (eg taxing water use). A small wealth tax and the USA could solve a lot of problems

    • @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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      28 months ago

      How about the polluters pay for it instead through the massive profits they’ve managed over years of ignoring the potential issues … the same as how big oil should pay to clean up its own dormant wells, pipelines and infrastructure.

      • partial_accumen
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        -18 months ago

        How about the polluters pay for it

        Okay, lets play that out. Which specific company is the pollution in your glass of water from? Can you prove it? Does that company still exist?

        If you have all of those things, then you could bring a civil suit and make them pay for it.

        • @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca
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          08 months ago

          Gov’ts would have all the paperwork needed to go after the companies … if they really wanted to that is.

          • partial_accumen
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            08 months ago

            Some of the paperwork perhaps, but not all. I’m sorry it just isn’t that simply. Few things in life are.