Submitted 7 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/30/pfas-ban-plastic-containers-court
Conservative fifth circuit overturns EPA’s ban prohibiting Inhance from using manufacturing process creating toxic compound
Archived version: archive.ph/xuz0R
Oh thank god, I was worried that public health would cost my investments to grow 0.01% slower.
SCOTUS: nobody is forcing you to purchase from businesses that use these plastic containers. Therefore nobody has standing to sue
Imagine working for Inhance and high-fiving your coworkers because a court said it’s legal for you to continue contaminating humans and the environment with a harmful chemical.
What kind of sick motherfucker sleeps well after that?
Dollars over lives…
Just another day in America.
doomer “Sure appreciate that the government functions just well enough to make it illegal for it to function at all…”
freedom-and-democracy “Sure thing bro!”
What!?!
To be fair if you actually read it the EPA invoked the wrong legislation, it should be banned but they didn’t ban in a legal manner
Not really. The argument came down to the Section 5 definition of “new”, since other arguments were ignored as moot. It was a typical pro business decision that argued on semantics instead of law.
The court even signaled that they would reject it under Section 6 if EPA were to use it due to the need “to weigh the costs to businesses and the overall economy before shutting down an ongoing manufacturing process”.
If they have had this process for decades it’s not new though, the information about the harms is new. You could argue the EPA doesn’t have enough power when something is provably toxic but this ruling isn’t surprising, especially when it would create significant case law
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Conservative fifth circuit is the headline, Grauniad. Don’t bury it.