The US Department of Energy is allowing exemptions for nuclear reactor environmental reviews, alarming critics who called the policy “terrifying” and “truly crazy.”

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    14 days ago

    What are these regulations even for, anyway? It’s not like there’s been a nuclear meltdown in the US lately. Seriously, why have regulations for things that just don’t happen anymore? /s

  • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    14 days ago

    Trump and his coattail-riders really seem determined to not only bring back the Gilded Age economic disparity, but everything about it, including the pollution, disease and death, and not as unintended consequences, but as deliberate goals.

  • apfelwoiSchoppen@lemmy.world
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    These fascists are out to kill as many of us as they can while corporate oligarchies cover for them so they can all short the economy together. They do not care for the future.