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...........plastics.

You can be certain that a Trump administration will, again, write executive orders and create legislation diminishing anti-pollution regulations.

"A recently published study of 23 human and 47 dog testes found that all of the testes contained microplastics. The study, published in the journal Toxicological Studies, also suggests a correlation between microplastics contamination and lower sperm count. It’s not the first of its kind, either: plastic particles are widespread in food, water, blood and placenta; their presence in certain blood vessels has been linked to higher rates of strokes, heart attacks and death.

In the United States, environmental regulations protect against toxins and pollution in the air and water, often quite successfully. Rules around certain kinds of plastic pollution are relatively new, though; it was only last month that the Environmental Protection Agency finalized limits on six “forever chemicals” frequently found in plastics owing to their potential to cause kidney and liver cancer. As regulators start to crack down on plastics’ seemingly ever-larger footprint, will there be any reckoning with the harm that’s already been done?."

https://www.popsci.com/science/microplastics-testi...

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