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EPA Will No Longer Consider Lives Saved in Pollution Rules, Only Cost to Business (truthout.org)
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"The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is now only counting costs to businesses when considering regulation on key pollutants, internal documents show, rather than considering human lives saved by such caps."

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[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 8 points 14 hours ago

Blue states just need to stop giving money to the federal government and the red states will very quickly get back in line.

[-] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 2 points 5 hours ago

How do you suppose that would work? Functionally?

[-] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 12 hours ago

I agree with the first part, but you are wrong that they just fall in line.

[-] 13igTyme@piefed.social 3 points 11 hours ago

Cut off all the money and red states will buckle.

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