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N.C. Has Allowed a Likely Carcinogen Into Three Rivers Serving 900,000 People

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Good thing there's no department monitoring that stuff any more.
- The efficiency must flow. The poison must flow. The money must flow. The power must flow.
  
  Pipe it into DC
- The CSB monitor the causes leading up to events like this in investigations carried out afterwards, usually only published a year or two after the actual event. The EPA are the ones that monitor the waterways and emissions from plants in real time. They have also faced cuts, but there's not currently a plan to completely eliminate them like the CSB
Shit, do you guys even have an Environmental Suggestion Agency anymore even?
- It's the Environment Rape Agency now. We've stopped pretending
My cousin moved down there a few years ago, and a lot of my family talk about how they want to because its so cheap. I guess if you enjoy your local government to be non-existent and allow things like this to even take place, then I guess it's a wonderful place to live! Enjoy your low taxes, you get what you pay for.
- It's comical how much Americans loathe to pay their taxes.... Look at those "best places to live in the world" lists and everywhere good requires people to pay high taxes! ...it's almost like they get what they pay for!
  Now don't get me wrong, american politicians and leaders are garbage and I would not trust them with my money either, but that's more about getting what you voted for (either directly, or indirectly by staying home that Tuesday)
  
  Oh, we still pay for; we just don't get.
- Taxes aren't even that low here for how badly public services fail.
  
  We all live in NJ, so I can't agree with your statement, haha. It may not be bad to most states, but from what I see, NC is about 1-3k for property taxes? For us anywhere in the state, the middle class is going to start at around 6k and quickly rise to 14k a year if not more. I say 6k, but I don't even know anywhere close to my area that doesn't start at 9-11k. Mine is higher than that and trust me we live in an average, not even updated, middle class place in a town most people don't want to live because it was the cheapest within an hour drive, which we did not want to deal with going to work everyday.
- Where I live, the local government is all at-large, so no one runs as a member of any party, but you can separate everyone into two groups of "people who want the town to provide basic services", like parks and libraries, and "people who want to keep property taxes as low as possible" by not spending money on any services.
The carcinogen is "1,4-dioxane" if you're wondering.
Oh look another billionaire company killing folks.
LMAO I literally just posted this question:
https://sh.itjust.works/post/41185090 💀
Coincidence? Or do I have supernatural powers that can sense the disturbance in the force?
- This is all the more disturbing when people won't vax "because the government put something in it"
  Like the "government" wants something in you, it's going to do it. No point in worrying.
  People won't drink tap water for the same reason, then turn around and buy a bottle of "natural spring" water that's not nearly as regulated.
  I'll take my chances with city water treatment scientists, rather than the greedy smart water CEOs
Of course they did. Scum.
North Carolina must have some of the most poisoned water between this, PFCs, and coal ash. The government should provide all residents with RO filters.
Is Pat McRory, former governor who allowed Duke to dump coal ash in drinking water supplies, involved?
That sounds like a “them” problem that I’m to “me” to worry about.

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