Contaminated water: It's the "PR Nightmare" they're worried about...

[TygrBright]

Source: AP

"Calls for action on toxics White House called PR nightmare"

At “community engagement sessions” around the country this summer like the one in Horsham, residents and state, local and military officials are demanding that the EPA act quickly — and decisively — to clean up local water systems testing positive for dangerous levels of the chemicals, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.

The Trump administration called the contamination “a potential public relations nightmare” earlier this year after federal toxicology studies found that some of the compounds are more hazardous than previously acknowledged.

PFAS have been in production since the 1940s, and there are about 3,500 different types. Dumped into water, the air or soil, some forms of the compounds are expected to remain intact for thousands of years; one public-health expert dubbed them “forever chemicals.”

EPA testing from 2013 to 2015 found significant amounts of PFAS in public water supplies in 33 U.S. states. The finding helped move PFAS up as a national priority.

Because it's the optics, yanno.

Not the peoples' health being damaged, the anxiety of parents wondering if their children are being poisoned, long-term residents researching the possible damage they may have suffered.

It's the fucking PR.

Well, let's fulfill their prophecy, then.

Let's make it a PR nightmare for them, indeed.

These are the fuckers who would rather oblige their polluting industry oligarch buddies than protect the health of citizens and VOTERS.

Sweet move, [Redacted].

Sweet.

disgustedly,
Bright

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1. There's no money to be made in cleaning up messes

Only in making messes. It's the capitalist way! Someone else needs to clean up these lethal messes. You can't expect industry to clean up after itself. That would hurt profits.