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Dr. Lucky Tran 
This is what many cities in the U.S. looked like before the EPA.
Why the heck would anyone celebrate deregulating it?
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
Linda Arbuckle@luckytran Geeze, this will NOT make America great.
Cheshire Lunar Kitten@Linda_Arbuckle @luckytran it will give a great ammount of Amerikans lung cancer..
J. Steven York RESISTS@luckytran
Fuck this. I knew it was coming. Remember how we loved flaming rivers, dead fish, choking smog, and filling our kids full of lead? It's back back baby, all for the ROI!
Fuck this. I knew it was coming. Remember how we loved flaming rivers, dead fish, choking smog, and filling our kids full of lead? It's back back baby, all for the ROI!
derptron@jstevenyork @luckytran I got the lead in me and I'm OK 0_o
@crazyeddie @jstevenyork @luckytran are you?
Are you ok?
Patrick Berry@luckytran I hope we all like drinking mercury.
lagaya@luckytran I remember visiting with my Uncles in Chicago in the 60s. Going through Gary Indiana on the trip was fascinating. I didn't know smoke came in so may colors!
The Doctor
BakersRelay@luckytran golden age of lung cancer...congratulations America, you are even dumber rhen everyone already expected you were.
Androcat@luckytran I generally advise not to directly quote the fascists' payload.
This is just the people who bought the government taking their due, and it will harm americans and the economy.
Environmental harms always end up with a direct cost to taxpayers, which is the same as a direct cost to consumers.
Arthur van der Harg@luckytran “Golden”? That is somewhere between yellow and brown, sir.
clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@luckytran Nixon is too woke for these reactionary extremists. *boggle*
Muro deGrizecoDriving 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.
LevkaIt used to be that if you mounted a spark plug just inside the end of your tail pipes and wired it to a button on your dash, you could make flames spurt out of your hot rod's pipes at will. It was very impressive.
New Views@luckytran very short sighted
thecampbell@luckytran and this is what Zeldin is taking us back to
@luckytran As a kid I was published in the local paper writing about this bay in the area that made the place smell like total, oiled up, rotted, and then cooked and processed ass. Was a class assignment to write a letter to the editor and we went and sent it in and so on new years like 1980/81 or something there I was, saying please can we clean this shit up.
This was AFTER it had been greatly improved. Apparently for a while people had to wear masks to avoid the arsenic ash.
Bruce Mirken@luckytran I grew up in Los Angeles in the 1960s. It was routine for your eyes to sting and your lungs to burn from the #AirPollution. Who knows how much damage that did to my lungs and airways.
@luckytran I remember Los Angeles being like that. The eyes would burn so bad. It was hard to breathe… it was horrid.
MikeReidPhotography@luckytran I mean its pretty much a given that any Republican administration is going to be an azz raping for the environment...but
ChookMother 🇦🇺🦘@luckytran It's a common failure in human thinking. I was a specialist teacher for students with hearing loss. I made visits to schools where specific kids needed support. Sometimes support was cut off because the kids were "doing fine". Somehow the "doing fine" was not attributed to the support teacher. Never read as "kid is getting the right amount of support", only as "support no longer needed."
It happens when the bean-counters take over the decision making.
Bill Zaumen@luckytran Eliminating air quality rules may also lead to more automobile accidents in the Central Valley (California) due to increased tule fog.
Bill, organizer of stuff@luckytran Because they made money making cities look like that, and they don't give a shit. That's it. I know the question was rhetorical, but it doesn't even make sense to ask. There is no sense discussing what they are doing. We just need to end it.
Endy@luckytran These are the images that inspire nostalgia. That's why people want it.
Starraven@luckytran
I'm celebrating.
Of course, I'm Canadian and your country threatened to annex mine, so...
Jack Yan (甄爵恩)@luckytran I recall the EPA was started under Nixon, and judging by this current lot, even Nixon would be far too left for them.
KanaMauna@luckytran Essentially the Administration is an evil comic book supervillain organization. Whatever is good and normal is what they hate.
Dean F.@luckytran Historical ignorance?
JomMayBalloon@luckytran least harmful republican policy be like:
ProfWhatsHerName@luckytran
I like watching documentaries, today I was scrolling through season 36 of PBS's American Experience and I see an episode on Love Canal. #Buffalonian living in LA, I love any chance to see home and listen to some good Buffalo accents... It's five minutes in and I say to myself "f**k this going to happen again real soon"... Turned from a passive watch to - I need to learn from this.
I like watching documentaries, today I was scrolling through season 36 of PBS's American Experience and I see an episode on Love Canal. #Buffalonian living in LA, I love any chance to see home and listen to some good Buffalo accents... It's five minutes in and I say to myself "f**k this going to happen again real soon"... Turned from a passive watch to - I need to learn from this.
GrumpyDad 🇺🇦🇵🇸@luckytran This is why education is very important
Cohalian@luckytran because the ones deregulating don't live in the cities perhaps?
Graham C@luckytran they are going to privatise the air. Want clean air? Subscribe to our oxygen delivery service.
BeldarakTo be fair that second one looks cool af. Who needs to breath air anyway? :S
@luckytran because those celebrating it stand to benefit from it.
Miakoda 
Bssr4 (TЯ☭M₽ )Musk wants,"NO REGULATION", as Default Policy...
Wonder Why?!
$$$$$$$$$$
Ex-Yinzer here. Growing up in surrounded by steel mills in the '50s and '60s gave me chronic bronchitis as a kid. X-rays show it scarred my lungs. Now I'm 76 and suffer from COPD. I've never stopped coughing entirely.
A case can be made that the EPA was not the best way to get rid of the mills. Shipping them overseas just made it someone else's problem. What it did for the planet was like rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic. Steel mills burn coke, derived from coal, one of the fossil fuels that's spit roasting our biosphere.
Maybe instead we should have just blown them up. I was there, I could have at least tried. I didn't. Too late now.
And worse, over a century ago Alexander Berkman showed us the futility of the Luigi option.
So what options *do *we have? I've been trying to think of one for most of my life and came up with nada. Does anyone else here have an idea? Let's hear it.
Observations from the couch
Herr Dennis 🖖🙂@luckytran Dann sieht man die vielen Probleme nicht sofort.
Komuso FuuMoney matter! Not health!
Jeff McNeill@luckytran It's like they are taking every good idea implemented by government, and destroying it, just to rustle up trillions in tax breaks for companies and individuals who don't need the money. Let's calculate the damage in dollars, not only for the damage it will cause, but simply for what it will cost to return the system to what it was. The "savings" will disappear.
Dan Seitz@luckytran Because they're stupid. Sincerely, I have talked to the people actually celebrating this and they're dumb as bricks.