One environmental attorney said that the EPA proposal “prioritizes chemical industry profits and utility companies’ bottom line over the health of children and families across the country.”
One environmental attorney said that the EPA proposal “prioritizes chemical industry profits and utility companies’ bottom line over the health of children and families across the country.”
If a life is worth $10,000,000. And PFAs are reducing lives by at least 3 years depending on the chemicals. That’s roughly 4% of a life. If 77% of the population drink tap water in some form, that’s about 267,000,000 people losing $400,000 of their lives. And that’s before you factor in $50 billion dollars in health care costs that come from PFAs, and will only increase. (We’ll leave that out)
To put it simply maybe we should sue the government in a class action lawsuit for $106.8 trillion if they are not putting protections in place to insure those people aren’t stolen from.
Let’s say they don’t care about other people at all (which honestly at this point is pretty clear) the direct economic losses due to this change will be major. Short-term profit over long-term wellbeing, similar to the pandemic.