Na. I am not a fan of casual lying.

Keep it up.

You know much of the authority of the Federal EPA has been spun off to state EPA agencies over the past few decades.

Lots of this is the responsibility of state agencies rather than federal.

I guess the word local now means nationwide. But then again, Reddit nihilists don’t care what the mean of words are.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/02/24/ohio-derailment-toxic-air-pollution/

But the environmental harm is not nationwide…

That is nonsense thinking.

You are getting exposed to worse things locally.

There was no control or comparison group apparently

They are not the same thing. The above implies resources from mental health was moved to prisons which is not what happened. The other explains the series of cuts caused by strained government budgets in the 70s.

I get that both rhetorical nihilism (words have no meaning and deliberate conflation) and epistemological nihilism (outright rejection of subject knowledge or basic inquiry) are popular on Reddit. But those are really lazy ways to look at the world because it requires purely passive contrarian thinking.

No. It was dismantled by the Federal government. Costs and responsibilities were sent to the states. Austerity during the 70s and 80s had those programs cut and shifted to localities that could not handle these issues.

Well the easy guess is people’s stomachs

Tak

Is that the Round church?

Do they keep the rat population down?

You ever see the wall of permits that new constructions in NYC?

Like a 6 foot wall of permits.

Permits are not issued because the regulatory hurdles to build make it so costly to build

Like they are scummy tenants who don’t pay rent?

You should look again at the map and then look at topography of the US before you make that assertion about correlation.

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.est.8b05533#

Historically oceans have been seen as a primary source of iodine I precipitation but apparently there are other sources in the water cycle.

Also ocean precipitation goes far in land. Rain clouds that from into the Gulf of Mexico go well into Canada. They intercept cold fronts coming south and make T storms.

It distributes on land from evaporated ocean water. Plants and grazing animals then absorb it. You can get plenty of iodine from mills. Mountains are often iodine deficient since most water runs down hill rather than gets into the soil.

You have to add it. Those fancy salts do not usually have added iodine. It says so on the labels.

So if you like goiters…