cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10442645
Chemical Makers Sue Over Rule to Rid Water of ‘Forever Chemicals’
In practice, this means 3M is continuing to create harm from the risks they spent decades covering up
cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/10442645
Chemical Makers Sue Over Rule to Rid Water of ‘Forever Chemicals’
In practice, this means 3M is continuing to create harm from the risks they spent decades covering up
It blew my mind when i learned we don’t require 100% capture of contamination from manufacturing. Granted i was a kid, but it seemed to me that cleaning up after yourself would just be the cost of doing business. How naive i was.
3M has fucked up the water in my area pretty bad for decades. I have to use Zero water filters for everything. Been thinking of installing a large under sink filter/reverse osmosis system.
It’s 100% worth it. Not only does it get rid of the pollution, it tastes a lot better too.
There’s a paper mill near me, on a river, and the one and only interesting thing about it is that it discharges water that is cleaner than it takes out.
Now, this isn’t because they just care so much, or try so hard… it’s actually because the river is so horribly polluted from other shit upstream, even after decades of cleanup projects, that doing the bare minimum is actually a net positive…
What a shitty world we live in. It could have been so much better.
Potomac?
Nope.
But that made me realize there are probably a lot of places where that description fits, sadly.
It is the cost of doing business. They just wanna make the rest of us pay it.