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Author: PucksFool 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 48466 
Subject: Remember when public health was bipartisan
Date: 12/16/2024 4:43 AM
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Heather Cox Richardson does.

https://heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/decemb...
... December 16, is the fiftieth anniversary of the Safe Drinking Water Act, signed into law on December 16, 1974, by President Gerald R. Ford, a Republican. The measure required the Environmental Protection Agency to set maximum contaminant levels for drinking water and required states to comply with them. It protected the underground sources of drinking water and called for emergency measures to protect public health if a dangerous contaminant either was in or was likely to enter a public water system.

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“[B]y ignoring environmental costs we have given an economic advantage to the careless polluter over his more conscientious rival,” Trump’s Republican predecessor Nixon told the nation in 1970. “While adopting laws prohibiting injury to person or property, we have freely allowed injury to our shared surroundings.” When he signed the Safe Drinking Water Act in 1974, President Ford added simply: “Nothing is more essential to the life of every single American than clean air, pure food, and safe drinking water.”
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Author: UpNorthJoe 🐝  😊 😞
Number: of 48466 
Subject: Re: Remember when public health was bipartisan
Date: 12/16/2024 8:51 AM
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from the linked article"
"Widespread calls to protect drinking water ran up against lobbyists for oil companies and members of Congress from oil districts. They complained that the science of what substances were dangerous was uncertain and that how they would be measured and regulated was unclear. They complained that the EPA was inefficient and expensive and was staffed with inexperienced officials."

My comment: Does that ever sound familiar !

"in 1972, an EPA study discovered that waters downstream from 60 industries discharging waste from Baton Rouge to the Mississippi River’s mouth in New Orleans had high concentrations of 66 chemicals and toxic metals............Concerns about the area of Louisiana that later came to be known as “Cancer Alley” were uppermost, but there were chemical companies across the country, and Congress set out to safeguard the lives of Americans from toxins released by corporations into the nation’s water supply. "

My comment: Yeah, who needs the EPA, Americans can count on Corporations to do the right thing,lol. If I remember right, Louisianan's are majority fervent believers in getting rid of
environmental controls. They are paying a heavy price for allowing themselves to be abused
like that. But hey, at least they got their freedoms.
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Author: EchotaSheeple   😊 😞
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Subject: Re: Remember when public health was bipartisan
Date: 12/16/2024 9:59 AM
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Dont worry. healthy people from Boston can pay the health bills too :)

Tribal America.

Welcome..... it's your coming out party.

Now wait till it gets more ingrained and official - yes - official tribes.
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