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[–] BertramDitore@lemm.ee 42 points 1 month ago (3 children)

If the Supreme Court lets it stand. Reminder: executive agencies don’t have deference to independently interpret laws like the Clean Drinking Water Act anymore, so this new rule will stand until someone decides to challenge it, and until a court decides they’d rather continue poisoning future generations instead of allowing the experts to do their jobs, which is something SCOTUS would apparently prefer.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Literally EVERY red state will sue to keep those pipes.

I mean, obviously not all of them, the rich neighborhoods will have their shit fixed quick, but damned if Tennessee will spend good money to fix pipes going to those people.

[–] Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

I assume the rich neighborhoods will have already have had their pipes replaced, in which case it would only be those people who are affected. Not that I have anything to back that suspicion up.

[–] EmpathicVagrant@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago

Lead make stupid. Stupid make right votes.

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Which is why it's absolutely essential to elect enough Democrats in the Senate to enable court expansion.

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

From what I understand this election cycle is not favorable to that whatsoever. If I recall correctly we might even lose the Senate :(

[–] silence7@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 month ago

The Senate is absolutely a very tough lift; it's going to be really tough for the Democrats to get even 50 seats.

[–] hydroptic@sopuli.xyz 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

But who will vote for the Republicans if they do this‽

[–] Potatisen@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Don't worry, it's not the lead that make Americans stupid.

[–] thesporkeffect@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

That's definitely SOME of it...

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah. We don't have lead in our pipes and we have plenty of cookers

Unfortunately, we do have twitter and Facebook though

[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thank you President Biden. The infrastructure guy.

[–] cm0002@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

🎶JOE BIDEN THE INFRASTRUCTURE GUY! JOE! JOE! JOE!🎵

[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Piping rules!

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Just about 50 years later than most modernized nations

[–] Notyou@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 month ago

What was that quote? Americans will always do the right thing, after trying every other options.

[–] Jagothaciv@kbin.earth 8 points 1 month ago

It’s crazy how shitty my parents end of the Boomers are at taking care of the country. It’s almost as if they’re completely incompetent (they are). They got the shit beat out of them by banks, petrochemical companies and religious weirdos.