Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 15:25:42 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

   This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA.

   Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?

   • clacke likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Shiitake Toast (shiitaketoast@beige.party)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 15:25:41 JST Shiitake Toast

     in reply to

     @luckytran I grew up in Pittsburgh. My grandfather talked about businessmen changing their white shirts at lunchtime because by then the one they wore to work had turned grey. By the 1980s, most of that had cleared.

     And I know that was because most steel mills shut down rather than modernize. But it’s not because they were bankrupt, they just refused and bought the steel from new modern Japanese factories.

     Now China is a leader in renewable energy and the US still refuses to catch up.

     clacke likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Muro deGrizeco :toad: (murodegrizeco@toad.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 15:25:50 JST Muro deGrizeco :toad:

     in reply to

     @luckytran

     Driving down into the Los Angeles area in the early eighties. Down into the red haze, photo chemical smog, acrid to breathe.

     Remembering German cities of that time that stunk of diesel.

     Remembering cars of the seventies that only partially burned their gas, and chugged out hydrocarbon volatiles.

     It was gross.

     clacke likes this.
   • Embed this notice
     Miakoda (hellomiakoda@pdx.social)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 21:55:15 JST Miakoda

     in reply to

     • FoolishOwl

     @luckytran
     Air isn't profitable. That's why.
     @foolishowl

   • Embed this notice
     clacke (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 22:26:10 JST clacke

     in reply to
     @luckytran Nixon is too woke for these reactionary extremists. *boggle*
   • Embed this notice
     Dr. Lucky Tran :verified: (luckytran@med-mastodon.com)'s status on Thursday, 13-Mar-2025 22:26:11 JST Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:

     in reply to

     Head of EPA, Lee Zeldin: “Today is the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history. Today the green new scam ends, as the E.P.A. does its part to usher in a golden age of American success.” https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/climate/epa-zeldin-rollbacks-pollution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.3k4.xHaI.8Tncvj43xY2N&smid=url-share