Did you know that on Friday, the #EPA rid of its Diesel Exhaust Fluid (DEF) sensor requirement for trucks and other diesel equipment?

Though crucial for controlling emissions, DEFs have their faults, which were costly to farmers.

The EPA announced its move as part of the #trump admin's "Great American Agriculture Celebration.”

Part 2🧵
#USA #agriculture #farmers #environment
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A #US government website:

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/trump-administration-announces-latest-action-address-diesel-exhaust-fluid-def-system

DEF sensors no longer required on trucks, other diesel equipment: EPA

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Yahoo News

@mo3hr3 @GrapheneOS Danke, dass du das gemacht hast. Unter /e/OS ging die TK-App auch ne Weile nicht. Ich hatte es nur bis zur 1*-Bewertung geschafft. Dann gings plötzlich wieder (sicher Zufall).

Tk-Ident hat noch mehr Probleme. Funktionierte zeitweise im WLAN gar nicht. Und dass es immer zwei Versuche braucht um reinzukommen ist auch voll vertrauenswürdig.

Ich schau vielleicht monatlich mal rein, um dann immer wieder enttäuscht zu sehen, was für ne nutzlose Grütze die #ePA ist.

Gesundheitskosten und #KI? 😵‍💫

Sieht ja auf den ersten Blick nicht so aus als wenn die hohen Kosten was mit den Digitalisierung zu tun haben, aber bei genauerem Hinsehen schon. 😔

https://www.heise.de/news/Digital-Health-Diskussion-um-Epic-Systems-offene-Plattformen-und-weitere-Wege-11228964.html

"Als Beispiel für diesen Trend gilt auch Deutschland. Wie das Fachmedium kma berichtet, darf die Berliner Charité nach einer Gesetzesänderung bis 2035 Kredite in Höhe von bis zu 400 Millionen Euro aufnehmen, um unter anderem den Einsatz von Epic zu finanzieren, dessen Einführung alleine mit rund 200 Millionen veranschlagt wird."

"Fernández stellte dem ein alternatives Modell gegenüber: Offene Plattformen auf Basis von Standards wie openEHR, einem offenen internationalen Standard für elektronische Patientenakten (Electronic Health Record, EHR), der eine standardisierte Speicherung, Verwaltung und den Austausch von Gesundheitsdaten ermöglicht."

Die Gier der Konzerne:

"Auch beim Thema Datennutzung wurden deutliche Unterschiede sichtbar. Michael Hübner, verantwortlich für Innovation und Digitalisierung bei den Sana Kliniken, betonte, dass Gesundheitsdaten zwar einen erheblichen wirtschaftlichen Wert hätten, deren direkter Verkauf in Deutschland jedoch rechtlich nicht zulässig und kulturell schwierig sei."

So kann man auch die Bürger als "Datengrab" nutzen um die Rendite ohne Kosten zu erhöhen. 😔

Ob #ePA oder andere angestrebte Lösungen, die Sicherheit oder gar die "digitale Souveränität" stehen nicht im Focus und werden weitere Milliarden an Lösegeld kosten weil die Verantwortlichen nur "Compliance Theater" als Ziel vor Augen haben.

Zum Beispiel die AMEOS Gruppe:

https://www.ameos.eu/datenschutz/datenschutzvorfall-gem-art-34-dsgvo/

Es gibt erfahrene Spezialisten die helfen können, nur fragen, dann wird es sicherer. 🙂

https://www.tagesschau.de/inland/innenpolitik/gesundheitssystem-finanzierung-krankenkassen-100.html

#KI #ePA

Kostenfalle Krankenhaus-IT: Wie Epic und Co. Milliarden binden

US-Anbieter monolithischer Software wie Epic Systems in Krankenhäusern gefährden die digitale Souveränität und drohen, zur Kostenfalle zu werden.

heise online
@BlueWaver22 @ProPublica “Now he can do #BigOil dirty work from inside the #EPA" - Sen. Whitehouse

Aaron Szabo, the Trump EPA official leading an effort to loosen rules on methane pollution, was an unnamed author of key oil industry arguments against those same rules just four years ago when he was an oil and gas lobbyist, metadata shows.

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-methane-deregulation-aaron-szabo-oil-gas-axpc?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #EPA #Environment #Oil #Gas #Energy #Government #Methane

The Trump EPA Official in Charge of Methane Regulations Helped Write Oil Industry Argument Against Those Rules

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions.

ProPublica

Man müsste glatt mal unangenehme Fragen zur #ePA stellen ;)

#aok #krankenkasse

IT in #Polen (1)
Hier gibt's den #MObywatel für das Handy: Alle Dokumente incl. Rentenausweis, diverse Zertifikate etc. elektronisch verfügbar. Cool!
Und mit einem Klick und biometrischer Identifikation springt man von dort in das Pendant zur #ePA: Arztbesuche, Rezepte etc auf dem Handy verfügbar, und das nicht nur für sich selbst, sondern auch für den Ehepartner. Ob auch Befunde? So viel Polnisch verstehe ich leider nicht.

"About 100 of the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires, a potential public health threat to millions of Americans in surrounding communities, the internal watchdog at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has found."

https://apnews.com/article/epa-superfund-sites-toxic-risk-flooding-wildfires-4c7ed2ab7b9d53335b86b75ae6cb9374

#PublicHealth #environment #climate #toxins #chemicals #EPA

About 100 toxic Superfund sites vulnerable to flooding, storms, wildfires

About 100 of the nation’s most contaminated toxic waste sites are in areas prone to flooding and wildfires, a potential public health threat to millions of Americans. The EPA’s Office of Inspector General last week reported on weather-related vulnerabilities of 157 Superfund sites prioritized for cleanup because they threaten public health and the environment. About 13 million people live within 3 miles of such a site. The studies found 49 Superfund sites in coastal areas are at risk from sea-level rise or storm surge from hurricanes, with many near highly populated areas and important ecological sites like Chesapeake Bay. Another 47 are in low-lying areas prone to inland flooding, and 31 are in areas at high risk for wildfires.

AP News

Here's the story! (I guess they were waiting to post it after the 6pm news).

#EPA watchdog finds #BrunswickLanding is among #contaminated sites vulnerable to #SeaLevelRise, #flooding

Russ Reed, March 31, 2026

#BrunswickME - "The internal watchdog at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has found that about 100 of the nation's most #contaminated toxic waste sites, including one in #Maine, are in areas prone to #NaturalDisasters, posing a potential public health threat.

"The EPA's Office of Inspector General issued two new reports last week that are part of a series assessing the weather-related vulnerabilities of the 157 federal #Superfund sites prioritized for cleanup due to the serious risk they pose to public health and the environment. About 3 million Americans live within a mile of a Superfund site, while 13 million people live within 3 miles.

"Brunswick Landing, the site of the former #BrunswickNavalAirStation, is among the Superfund sites that were found to be at risk from multiple natural-disaster threats. According to the Inspector General, Brunswick Landing is one of 49 sites in coastal areas that are at risk from #SeaLevelRise or #StormSurge from hurricanes. Many of those sites are located near highly populated areas and important ecological locales like #ChesapeakeBay .

"Brunswick Landing is also one of 47 low-lying sites that are specifically prone to inland flooding from heavy rain. The Inspector General's review also found 31 sites in areas at high risk for wildfires."

Read more:
https://www.wmtw.com/article/brunswick-landing-concerns-epa-watchdog-report-maine/70899341

#WaterIsLife #ForeverChemicals
#Pollution #ClimateChange #Maine
#BrunswickExecutiveAirport #PFAS #PFASContamination

New Analyses: EPA Consistently Fails to Warn Public of Pesticide Cancer Risks

The Environmental Protection Agency has routinely failed to put cancer warnings on pesticide products even when its own assessments have found a high risk of those products causing cancer, according to two new analyses released today by the Center for Food Safety and the Center for Biological Diversity. The Center for Food Safety analyzed the level of risk the EPA permitted for both currently approved and legacy pesticide active ingredients. The analysis found that pesticides have been allowed on the market with a cancer risk as high as one in every 100 people exposed, a far greater level than the EPA’s benchmark of a one in a million chance of developing cancer. Over the last 40 years, the EPA has approved 200 active ingredients that are “likely” or “possible” carcinogens. The Center for Biological Diversity analysis examined pesticide product labels for all currently approved pesticide products. The EPA has instituted cancer warnings on only 69 of 4,919 pesticide labels (1.4%) containing an active ingredient that the agency has designated a “likely” human carcinogen. And the agency has instituted cancer warnings on just 242 of the 22,147 pesticide labels (1.1%) that contain an ingredient the agency has designated as a “possible” human carcinogen.

Center for Biological Diversity