Posted on 02/28/2024 9:21:22 AM PST by Twotone
Without so much as a whisper of pushback from Congress, the White House is bulldozing forward with a regulatory proposal that could cost the average household up to $10,000 extra in water costs. But it’s not only President Joe Biden‘s campaign that is scared of this latest forefront of the president’s green agenda — Biden’s own Pentagon is panicking over the proposal.
The World Health Organization now recommends that governments limit polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as PFAS or “forever plastics” that are resistant to breaking down in either the environment or the human body, at a level of 100 parts per trillion. This is the same level limited by the European Commission. Japan set a temporary PFAS limit of 50 ppt in 2020, and Sweden limits most PFAS at an average of 90 ppt. As far as more restrictive measures go, Canada is trying to lower its limit to 30 ppt, while Denmark is trying to ban PFAS in specific, isolated sectors such as in paper food packaging.
And then, there is America’s Environmental Protection Agency, which is trying to reduce its advisory limit of 70 ppt to a hard limit of 4 ppt for two prevalent types of PFAS, PFOA and PFOS, for all drinking water.
In other words, Biden would decrease the Obama administration’s suggested PFAS limit to a legal maximum by 94.3%. The new standard would be 4% of the WHO’s recommendation and less than one-tenth of 1% of that of Australia and New Zealand.
According to a Black & Veatch consulting report commissioned by the American Water Works Association, the EPA’s proposed standards would increase water costs by anywhere from $80 to $11,150 per year for each household. Contrary to the EPA’s estimate of $1 billion extra in annual costs added to water utilities, the AWWA argues the new standards would amount to $3.8 billion in new annual costs.
But according to the Pentagon, it’s not just household budgets that are at risk if this proposal succeeds — it’s also our national security.
“[The Department of Defense] is reliant on the critically important chemical and physical properties of PFAS to provide required performance for the technologies and consumable items and articles which enable military readiness and sustainment,” read a Pentagon report sent to Congress in August. “Losing access to PFAS due to overly broad regulations or severe market contractions would greatly impact national security and DoD’s ability to fulfill its mission.”
According to the DoD, PFAS are found in its infrastructure related to “information technology, critical manufacturing, health care, renewable energy, and transportation,” including within batteries, semiconductors, and most weaponry. Even before the EPA’s new standards come into effect, the Pentagon estimated it would require $39 billion to clean up PFAS contamination past the Obama-era recommendation. In total, nearly 3,000 private wells by 63 military bases are considered contaminated, with some combined levels of PFOS and PFOA at 10,000 ppt — or 2,500 times higher than what the EPA would allow under these new standards.
For reference regarding how uniquely stringent the proposed PFAS standards are, the EPA limits arsenic in water at 10 parts per billion and cyanide at 200 parts per billion. Thus the EPA is asking that taxpayers pay tens of billions of dollars to bring the prevalence of some plastics to a level less than a fraction of a percent of what we allow for literal poisons.
The White House Office of Regulatory Affairs is now reviewing the final rule. If it pushes the standards through prior to the Congressional Review Act deadline of May 22, this baseless standard will become law without so much as a peep from our so-called lawmakers.
Insanity.
Committee Approves Legislation to Reject Biden Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule, Streamline Energy Projects, and Other Measures
https://transportation.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=406159
” ... The White House Office of Regulatory Affairs is now reviewing the final rule. If it pushes the standards through prior to the Congressional Review Act deadline of May 22, this baseless standard will become law without so much as a peep from our so-called lawmakers.”.
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In the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and according to Matthew 18:18 and 16:19, we now bind the strongman (luke 11:20) over all evil spirit powers involved in this latest abominable attempt at slavery by proclamation. We loose upon said strongman and all evil spirits in his chain of command the spirits of burning, destruction, judgement, and confusion, and loose the warrior angelic hosts of Heaven to attack and destroy them, rout them and put them to utter confusion.
We also loose upon the humans involved in this the heavenly spirits of salvation, adoption as children of God, repentance, redemption, deliverance, and the agape love of God. In Jesus’ Name, amen.
In Jesus’ Name, amen.
Scratch the above post. It was exactly 1 year ago.
I used to drive by the Atlanta City water sewage/water processing plant every day when I worked. Atlanta a always in violation of federal water standards because it couldn’t handle the load and was continually dumping raw sewage into the Chattahoochee river. They still have trouble with this, and the fines keep racking up.
Since he is too far gone mentally to keep coming up with these attacks on the American people, I want to know the names of those people in his “administration” who are coming up with these senseless policies.
BETCHA they make us test our wells annually.
That would be our real government AKA the Deep State.
The water filtration industries stand to make billions and billions from you and me. Another way to “transfer” our savings to “them..” (of course members of Congress and the Junta will be exempt from paying these new “fees…”
It may not be realistic at this point. But maybe we should do something about it. Perhaps 50 years from now.
We are not using asbestos anymore. And for a good reason.
Wait until they want to meter your private well
I have read a couple of government policy reports that state they want to not only outlaw private wells but to outlaw all private gardens. All this in the name of saving the Earth.
That’s about $27 a day to spend on beer.
Who needs water?
“Wells are your friend.”
...unless they’re in an aquifer downgradient from an airport (military or civilian) with AFFF practice sites.
Same here. It’s as if it will never end......
Yep......Obama...one evil racist American hating deceptive devil.
Biden is now worse to me than Hillary and that took some doing. Evil to the core.
Yeah.....4 years of Biden is like an eternal hell we are all in.
Very well put. Yes, he’s a master of taqiyya, the Muslim way of deception.
And one of the most Evil people who ever lived.
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