The Biden-era limits were designed to reduce emissions of toxic pollutants, including a cancer-causing ingredient used in antifreeze and plastics.
Chemical Industry Asks Trump for Exemption From Pollution Limits
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/05/climate/chemical-industry-trump-pollution-exemption.html
9 Comments
Chozo@fedia.io · 57 pts · 1y
You don't ask for exemptions with Trump. You buy them.
Stovetop@lemmy.world · 25 pts · 1y
phoenixarise@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1y
Do they also get hideous gold-foil-covered cards, too?
itsonlygeorge@reddthat.com · 24 pts · 1y
And so it begins. Back to polluted waterways and toxic air quality.
ebolapie@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 1y
I can't believe they're rebooting the Cuyahoga River Fire series. What'll this be, 13?
osaerisxero@kbin.melroy.org · 11 pts · 1y
Wait wait, hear me out guys: they'll release so many chemicals it won't just be frogs turning gay, it'll be everyone
RagingRobot@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1y
They must have already done it
psycho_driver@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1y
How much did they ask him?
skvlp@lemm.ee · 7 pts · 1y
Make America a hazardous, polluted cesspool™
Litebit@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1y
So long as they build near the CEOs house and White House.