It’s so infuriating and depressing, but I copied your actions and I’ll start using my 5 Calls app tomorrow
— anyone who doesn’t know about the 5 Calls app, it’s incredible. You open it up, there are numbers of issues, and you can also write in your own issues, then it gives you your representatives both in the house and the Senate and their phone numbers to call. They say it’s best not to mention more than two issues at a time, but you can make a number of calls. You can make calls all day if you’re so inclined.
These people share the same Earth. It is like how there used be smoking sections in restaurants, as if we weren’t all breathing the same air in the room. Do they think their kids are the ones who aren’t inheriting microplastics, just the kids in a different town over?
Also, even if AI doesn’t make us completely obsolete, we are already starting to feel that way. AI adopters think we can all just pivot to arts and writing that are not individual, personal expressions. It is hive production that mimics independent creativity. If we all adopt this, it is the end of our culture and civilization as we know it.
Convenience is not paramount and buying plastics will ultimately bring misery even for oil barons. AI is not a creative tool. We are the temporary hands on a computer that manipulate hive generated templates until future “innovation.” AI will do that and we will live with minimal individualism that created our nation in a climate that has reached its tipping point. Can AI fix that? No. Maybe people like you can. Maybe we all can.
Every member in this administration should be forced to drink and eat only PFAS contaminated water and food for as long as they are in office. They need to see their blood test results getting contaminated.
There are no coincidences therefore, the Data Centers are most likely going to cause more environmental damage. This is all government money being filtered through private companies in order to avoid the laws.
There’s a continuance of polluting with a cavalier business-as-usual attitude.
Obstacles to environmental progress were formidable pre-pandemic; however, Covid-19’s impact not only stalled most projects being undertaken, it added greatly to the already busy landfills and burning centers with disposed masks and other non-degradable biohazard-protective single-use materials.
Also, I no longer saw mainstream news-media coverage of Greta Thunberg's environmentalism, or any noteworthy climate-concern or pollution stories, except by some right-wing publications’ continued attempts to shame and/or discredit her.
In an interview with the online National Observer (posted Feb.12, 2019), Noam Chomsky noted that while the mainstream news-media, including The New York Times, do publish stories about man-made global warming, “It’s as if … there’s a kind of a tunnel vision — the science reporters are occasionally saying ‘look, this is a catastrophe,’ but then the regular [non-environmental pro-fossil fuel] coverage simply disregards it.”
I also read a particularly disturbing editorial 9 years ago printed by a local newspaper (The Surrey Now-Leader), headlined “Earth Day in need of a facelift”. It opined that “some people would argue that [the day of environmental action] … is an anachronism,” that it should instead be a day of recognizing what we’ve societally accomplished. “And while it [has] served us well, in 2017, do we really need Earth Day anymore?”
Varied lengths of the same editorial, unfortunately, was also run by some sister newspapers, all then owned by a news-media mogul who also aspired to own his own oil refinery.
Until reading this, I had never heard anyone, let alone a mainstream news outlet, suggest we’re doing so well as to render Earth Day an unnecessary "anachronism”. Considering the sorry state of the planet’s natural environment, I still find it one of the most absurd and irresponsible acts of editorial journalism I've witnessed in my 38 years of news consumption.
Then, over eight years later (on October 7, 2025), a story was posted by that same newspaper (The Surrey Now-Leader) that placed quotation marks around the words “fossil fuel”, as though the phraseology is no longer objective or accurate. For me at least, that’s unprecedented in mainstream journalism. Perhaps the fossil fuel industry now insists upon news media, as well as fossil fuel friendly politicians, always using the euphemism “energy” over the implicitly unflattering “fossil fuel”.
… If the universal availability of a renewable energy alternative would come at the expense of the traditional ‘energy’ production companies’ large profits, one can expect obstacles, including the political and regulatory sort. If something notably conflicts with corporate big-profit interests, even very progressive motions are greatly resisted, often enough successfully.
I have sold and operated 300 car washes. 20,000 cars per days. 2.5 trillion to add charcoal-micro filtration at the source does nothing for the delivered water. You have lead, plastic pupes now, bromides, etc.
You state home filtration with Gore-Tex, or other filters sourced from China. The largest exporter of defective and toxic materials on this planet. Available at Costco, and other outlets.
Trust in a utility or vendor to maintain Charcoal or microfiltration is baloney.
Total resolved solids at most taps are 285 TDS. Those solids contain all types of crud.
Flint, MI debacle was the city council trying to save money going to another source. That source used chemical different than flings system.
That leached away the biological coatings that every pipe has. The particular then lead.
So the well meaning in educated in plumbing screwed it up. No one that ever turned a wrench spoke to a plumber.
Take your 2.5 trillion, probably double that as utilities are never satisfied, decide by 170 million households in the usa. Make available a good water filtration systems for $200 bucks from cartridge 5 micron and charcoal final.
Educate the ones that care. Add it to the monthly bill.
The source is not the solution for clean delivered water. Reverse osmosis takes 2 gallons to make one gallon. As the filter loads up to 3 gallons for one in bypass.
Get some facts instead of crying to the government.
Just more excuses for not committing to a cleaner, safer, healthier environment. We’ve heard it all before and the message is loud and clear. They simply don’t care.
This should be a priority, not placed on the back burner to simmer as the problem gets worse. You’d think we’d have access to toxin free air, water and soil but that’s far from the truth and it should be unacceptable. Less talk more action.
The internal documents showing the EPA changed its PFAS position after meeting with industry representatives are the part most coverage is walking past.
The press release language about "gold-standard science" and "legally defensible" looks very different once you read it against those documents. The framing is that the previous administration rushed the rules. The internal record is that the current administration reversed them after industry asked.
For readers in states with their own PFAS legislation, is the state-level fight meaningfully insulated from what's happening federally, or does the EPA rollback give industry a new playbook to pressure state standards down as well?
Thank you for mentioning Farmington, MN!!! We are grateful to be named by such a prestigious group. The developer has launched a social media and website campaign to paint our lawsuit as frivolous and to insult the families and neighbors who are fighting to keep the local water clean and Vermillion River Trout habitat on the edge the project from perishing. But our lawsuit persists and after two years we are still speaking up. Please visit nodatacenter.com to read more and support us if you are able.
Flint ain't fixed, either. ... I recall watching a Democratic Party president named Barack Obama publicly drink from a glass of Flint, Michigan water [supposedly, anyway] via mass media, signifying the water system was safe from which to drink. But many say it is STILL not safe to drink. ["Ten Years Later, Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water"]
As a then-admirer of then-president Obama, I muttered “Say it isn’t so”. It greatly reinforced my belief that U.S. presidents, indeed along with Canadian prime ministers, essentially act as instruments of big corporate/money/power interests.
I know that the lead-tainting was not Obama’s doing; however, what he did was a major shock to and disappointment for the lead-poisoned Flint folk, who'd expected far more/better from him. To a lot of people, he had behaved like some TV-promotion actor hired by an (in this case) seriously ethically/morally challenged corporation.
Though I would expect it from a Republican president or even the Democrat President Bill Clinton, I found it very disappointing of Obama (maybe because he is Black, as were many or most of the lead-water-ingesting Flint folk), regardless of the big business and/or political pressure he probably had on his head.
Meanwhile the common yet questionable refrain STILL prevails among 'free-market' capitalist nation governments and corporate circles. It claims that best business practices, including what's best for consumers, are best decided by business decision-makers. But this was proven false numerous times.
... To conservatives the administrations of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and even Bill Clinton were progressive or liberal; however, they were, at best, neo or faux liberal — progressive only in regards to following/implementing ideologically liberal or “woke” policy: that involving race, sexuality, gender, and now also the politics of gender bending.
Clinton was fairly relatively conservative. For example, as president he decided against federally fully legalizing cannabis consumption after having championed it (or, at the very least, its decriminalization) prior to his election. He instead greatly ramped up the 'war on drugs' — including against personal users, which needlessly unjustly destroyed lives — at the very same time he made it easier for bankers to become richer.
He generally lowered the quality of life for those Americans in greatest need — the opposite of him and his neo-liberal-elite wife, friends, et al. And yet he probably slept well at night, nonetheless.
Dear @Erin Brockovich - nearly 200 of us marched 2 weeks ago, all the way from San Diego / Los Angeles to Sacramento asking that the California Victims Compensation Board be held accountable for systemic re-victimization of survivors via blatantly illegal delays / rejections of benefits. Accusations are supported by court losses, bad state & federal audits, and countless people, including me - a proud rape survivor, coming forward. Note that the San Diego victims qualify, but this is the same agency they will deal with. They have suffered enough. Let’s make sure they aren’t victimized all over again. Please help us. Link: https://www.change.org/p/state-federal-congressional-investigation-into-the-california-victims-compensation-board
It’s so infuriating and depressing, but I copied your actions and I’ll start using my 5 Calls app tomorrow
— anyone who doesn’t know about the 5 Calls app, it’s incredible. You open it up, there are numbers of issues, and you can also write in your own issues, then it gives you your representatives both in the house and the Senate and their phone numbers to call. They say it’s best not to mention more than two issues at a time, but you can make a number of calls. You can make calls all day if you’re so inclined.
Below is the link for 5 Calls
https://5calls.org/issue/voting-rights-gerrymandering-supreme-court/
These people share the same Earth. It is like how there used be smoking sections in restaurants, as if we weren’t all breathing the same air in the room. Do they think their kids are the ones who aren’t inheriting microplastics, just the kids in a different town over?
Also, even if AI doesn’t make us completely obsolete, we are already starting to feel that way. AI adopters think we can all just pivot to arts and writing that are not individual, personal expressions. It is hive production that mimics independent creativity. If we all adopt this, it is the end of our culture and civilization as we know it.
Convenience is not paramount and buying plastics will ultimately bring misery even for oil barons. AI is not a creative tool. We are the temporary hands on a computer that manipulate hive generated templates until future “innovation.” AI will do that and we will live with minimal individualism that created our nation in a climate that has reached its tipping point. Can AI fix that? No. Maybe people like you can. Maybe we all can.
85 seconds till midnight
LFG! Been writing about PFAs for a decade. So glad to see you leading this fight against data centers. Shared, spread the word. LFG!
Every member in this administration should be forced to drink and eat only PFAS contaminated water and food for as long as they are in office. They need to see their blood test results getting contaminated.
There are no coincidences therefore, the Data Centers are most likely going to cause more environmental damage. This is all government money being filtered through private companies in order to avoid the laws.
There’s a continuance of polluting with a cavalier business-as-usual attitude.
Obstacles to environmental progress were formidable pre-pandemic; however, Covid-19’s impact not only stalled most projects being undertaken, it added greatly to the already busy landfills and burning centers with disposed masks and other non-degradable biohazard-protective single-use materials.
Also, I no longer saw mainstream news-media coverage of Greta Thunberg's environmentalism, or any noteworthy climate-concern or pollution stories, except by some right-wing publications’ continued attempts to shame and/or discredit her.
In an interview with the online National Observer (posted Feb.12, 2019), Noam Chomsky noted that while the mainstream news-media, including The New York Times, do publish stories about man-made global warming, “It’s as if … there’s a kind of a tunnel vision — the science reporters are occasionally saying ‘look, this is a catastrophe,’ but then the regular [non-environmental pro-fossil fuel] coverage simply disregards it.”
I also read a particularly disturbing editorial 9 years ago printed by a local newspaper (The Surrey Now-Leader), headlined “Earth Day in need of a facelift”. It opined that “some people would argue that [the day of environmental action] … is an anachronism,” that it should instead be a day of recognizing what we’ve societally accomplished. “And while it [has] served us well, in 2017, do we really need Earth Day anymore?”
Varied lengths of the same editorial, unfortunately, was also run by some sister newspapers, all then owned by a news-media mogul who also aspired to own his own oil refinery.
Until reading this, I had never heard anyone, let alone a mainstream news outlet, suggest we’re doing so well as to render Earth Day an unnecessary "anachronism”. Considering the sorry state of the planet’s natural environment, I still find it one of the most absurd and irresponsible acts of editorial journalism I've witnessed in my 38 years of news consumption.
Then, over eight years later (on October 7, 2025), a story was posted by that same newspaper (The Surrey Now-Leader) that placed quotation marks around the words “fossil fuel”, as though the phraseology is no longer objective or accurate. For me at least, that’s unprecedented in mainstream journalism. Perhaps the fossil fuel industry now insists upon news media, as well as fossil fuel friendly politicians, always using the euphemism “energy” over the implicitly unflattering “fossil fuel”.
… If the universal availability of a renewable energy alternative would come at the expense of the traditional ‘energy’ production companies’ large profits, one can expect obstacles, including the political and regulatory sort. If something notably conflicts with corporate big-profit interests, even very progressive motions are greatly resisted, often enough successfully.
Infuriating. Profits over people for 250 years.
I have sold and operated 300 car washes. 20,000 cars per days. 2.5 trillion to add charcoal-micro filtration at the source does nothing for the delivered water. You have lead, plastic pupes now, bromides, etc.
You state home filtration with Gore-Tex, or other filters sourced from China. The largest exporter of defective and toxic materials on this planet. Available at Costco, and other outlets.
Trust in a utility or vendor to maintain Charcoal or microfiltration is baloney.
Total resolved solids at most taps are 285 TDS. Those solids contain all types of crud.
Flint, MI debacle was the city council trying to save money going to another source. That source used chemical different than flings system.
That leached away the biological coatings that every pipe has. The particular then lead.
So the well meaning in educated in plumbing screwed it up. No one that ever turned a wrench spoke to a plumber.
Take your 2.5 trillion, probably double that as utilities are never satisfied, decide by 170 million households in the usa. Make available a good water filtration systems for $200 bucks from cartridge 5 micron and charcoal final.
Educate the ones that care. Add it to the monthly bill.
The source is not the solution for clean delivered water. Reverse osmosis takes 2 gallons to make one gallon. As the filter loads up to 3 gallons for one in bypass.
Get some facts instead of crying to the government.
Just more excuses for not committing to a cleaner, safer, healthier environment. We’ve heard it all before and the message is loud and clear. They simply don’t care.
This should be a priority, not placed on the back burner to simmer as the problem gets worse. You’d think we’d have access to toxin free air, water and soil but that’s far from the truth and it should be unacceptable. Less talk more action.
Superman is not coming but Jesus is
The internal documents showing the EPA changed its PFAS position after meeting with industry representatives are the part most coverage is walking past.
The press release language about "gold-standard science" and "legally defensible" looks very different once you read it against those documents. The framing is that the previous administration rushed the rules. The internal record is that the current administration reversed them after industry asked.
For readers in states with their own PFAS legislation, is the state-level fight meaningfully insulated from what's happening federally, or does the EPA rollback give industry a new playbook to pressure state standards down as well?
Thank you for mentioning Farmington, MN!!! We are grateful to be named by such a prestigious group. The developer has launched a social media and website campaign to paint our lawsuit as frivolous and to insult the families and neighbors who are fighting to keep the local water clean and Vermillion River Trout habitat on the edge the project from perishing. But our lawsuit persists and after two years we are still speaking up. Please visit nodatacenter.com to read more and support us if you are able.
Flint ain't fixed, either. ... I recall watching a Democratic Party president named Barack Obama publicly drink from a glass of Flint, Michigan water [supposedly, anyway] via mass media, signifying the water system was safe from which to drink. But many say it is STILL not safe to drink. ["Ten Years Later, Flint Still Doesn't Have Clean Water"]
As a then-admirer of then-president Obama, I muttered “Say it isn’t so”. It greatly reinforced my belief that U.S. presidents, indeed along with Canadian prime ministers, essentially act as instruments of big corporate/money/power interests.
I know that the lead-tainting was not Obama’s doing; however, what he did was a major shock to and disappointment for the lead-poisoned Flint folk, who'd expected far more/better from him. To a lot of people, he had behaved like some TV-promotion actor hired by an (in this case) seriously ethically/morally challenged corporation.
Though I would expect it from a Republican president or even the Democrat President Bill Clinton, I found it very disappointing of Obama (maybe because he is Black, as were many or most of the lead-water-ingesting Flint folk), regardless of the big business and/or political pressure he probably had on his head.
Meanwhile the common yet questionable refrain STILL prevails among 'free-market' capitalist nation governments and corporate circles. It claims that best business practices, including what's best for consumers, are best decided by business decision-makers. But this was proven false numerous times.
... To conservatives the administrations of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and even Bill Clinton were progressive or liberal; however, they were, at best, neo or faux liberal — progressive only in regards to following/implementing ideologically liberal or “woke” policy: that involving race, sexuality, gender, and now also the politics of gender bending.
Clinton was fairly relatively conservative. For example, as president he decided against federally fully legalizing cannabis consumption after having championed it (or, at the very least, its decriminalization) prior to his election. He instead greatly ramped up the 'war on drugs' — including against personal users, which needlessly unjustly destroyed lives — at the very same time he made it easier for bankers to become richer.
He generally lowered the quality of life for those Americans in greatest need — the opposite of him and his neo-liberal-elite wife, friends, et al. And yet he probably slept well at night, nonetheless.
Dear @Erin Brockovich - nearly 200 of us marched 2 weeks ago, all the way from San Diego / Los Angeles to Sacramento asking that the California Victims Compensation Board be held accountable for systemic re-victimization of survivors via blatantly illegal delays / rejections of benefits. Accusations are supported by court losses, bad state & federal audits, and countless people, including me - a proud rape survivor, coming forward. Note that the San Diego victims qualify, but this is the same agency they will deal with. They have suffered enough. Let’s make sure they aren’t victimized all over again. Please help us. Link: https://www.change.org/p/state-federal-congressional-investigation-into-the-california-victims-compensation-board
Just? Go Back to 1968 … Skotchgard