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Florida Regulators OK Plan To Increase Toxins In Water (washingtontimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Washington Times: Despite the objection of environmental groups, state environmental regulators voted Tuesday to approve new standards that will increase the amount of cancer-causing toxins allowed in Florida's rivers and streams under a plan the state says will protect more Floridians than current standards. The Environmental Regulation Commission voted 3-2 to approve a proposal that would increase the number of regulated chemicals from 54 to 92 allowed in rivers, streams and other sources of drinking water, news media outlets reported. The Miami Herald reports that under the proposal, acceptable levels of toxins will be increased for more than two dozen known carcinogens and decreased for 13 currently regulated chemicals. State officials back the plan because it places new rules on 39 other chemicals that are not currently regulated. The standards still must be reviewed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, but the Scott administration came under withering criticism for pushing the proposal at this time. That's because there are two vacancies on the commission, including one for a commissioner who is supposed to represent the environmental community.
And I thought Florida water couldn't taste any worse than it already did....
The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for it to be pitted against a slightly greater evil
Looks like a millennial snowflake decided to censor my post. Holy shit you pansies like getting your panties in knots. Slashdot has gone to shit now that it's full of millennials. I really wish all of you millennial snowflakes would just go die in a fire.
[Millennial snowflakes not needed]
Indeed. And the way some people waste it, you'd think it just falls out of the sky.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
It was nice of them to supply some Bud Light during an emergency.
"Oh my God. This is terrible. This is the end of my Presidency. I'm fucked."; ~ Donald J. Trump
Yes, it's full of hydrogen which is very flammable and explosive in comfined spaces. The oxygen helps it burn too. I'd suggest gin, but, that's got water in it, and, anyway alcohol is inflammable and lethal too. We're doomed, I say, doomed.
On y va, qui mal y pense!