• Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Inhaling even small amounts of these pollutants — including mercury, alkylated lead and dioxins — can cause cancer, brain damage and other serious health effects.

    All dems and independents voted against. All republicans voted yea. One dem and one rep didn’t vote.

    I fucking hate our system. I hate people who vote republican. Pure evil and/or pure stupidity.

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      No, it’s being done under the Congressional Review Act, which isn’t subject to supermajority rules.

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      Even more to the point: every time we shutter a coal-fired power plant, the miscarriage rate downwind from it falls.

      Most “pro-life” sentiment is about having an excuse to vote for racists, not actually trying to do anything to protect fetuses.