Wednesday, November 26, 2025

EPA Approves Pesticides Containing “Forever Chemicals”

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved the use of two new pesticides that contain fluorinated substances commonly referred to as "forever chemicals" because they take centuries to break down in the environment.

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The EPA also announced it is relaxing a rule mandating that companies report products containing the chemicals, and proposed further weakening limits in drinking water. For decades, forever chemicals have been used to produce countless industrial and consumer goods, even though they have been linked to cancer and birth defects for over half a century.

Failed NYS GOP gubernatorial candidate and former House Republican Lee Zeldin has zero experience in science, the environment, or chemistry. A lifelong political hack and recently retired US Army Reservist, Zeldin has been an ardent supporter of Dummkopf Trumpf for years, and hence his sinecure at EPA.

Link: EPA.gov

Thanks for nothing, Lee! Drink up!

#1 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-26 07:03 AM

How long until they bring back DDT and Chloroflorocarbons?

There's Real Money to be made in Pollution.

Askin' for a Friend.

#2 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2025-11-26 10:43 AM

And two states outlawed fluoride from public water (Florida and Utah).

The Republican Party and the oligarchs means to sicken the American population because illness and hospitalization is pure money to be made in our for-profit healthcare system. The Trumpf junta is "all in." Look at the quacks in the cabinet.

"Oh, can't afford your dental bill? Have some debt! Oh, can't afford your hospital stay? What can we attach? Your home, car?"

"Cha-ching!"


#3 | Posted by C0RI0LANUS at 2025-11-26 12:56 PM

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