The GOP funding cuts, passed along party lines, would significantly impact state and local efforts to improve drinking water and reduce water pollution. Additional cuts would severely hamper environmental justice projects.
  • @OldWoodFrame@lemm.ee
    16•2 years ago

    I actually wonder what the polling on this is. Like do rank and file conservatives actually hate environmental protection so much that this is popular?

    Or is it just that cutting the budget broadly is super popular with them but cutting any service in particular is super unpopular so this is the least-bad option for cutting the budget?

    • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
      5•2 years ago

      Actually, yes. American conservatives equate caring for the environment with homosexuality and godlessness.

      I was born and raised in the south and was brainwashed as a southern baptist. Conservatives hate conservation, unless it’s saving some kills for next hunting season.

      Conservatives will pollute just for the sake of polluting. They delight in “rolling coal”, burning trash and pouring motor oil on anything green. They see polluting as an insult to non-conservatives. Conservatives are as grotesque as you imagine them to be.

    • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
      1•2 years ago

      It’s popular because the EPA is pretty shit at enforcing rules against large companies, so they mostly bully small and medium size businesses. There’s also a sentiment that recent regulation is more about control than saving the environment.

  • uphillbothways
    16•2 years ago

    US “Conservatives” propose slashing $4B from conservation budget, because, to them, words are meaningless and children’s futures don’t matter.

  • PeleSpiritEnglish
    13•2 years ago

    House Republicans proposes slashing $4B from the EPA

  • @Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
    12•2 years ago

    We could save about $10 Billion by scuttling the TSA (the Theatrical Security Asshats).

    The TSA serves no purpose other than to shift money around and spend billions on private equipment contracts with cronie corporations. It is theft of public funds to benefit conservative legislators. And this scam costs us almost $10B/year.

    • Bakkoda
      2•2 years ago

      Used to work in and around a TSA certified warehouse. After a year no one could figure out what the hell that meant since it had always been a DEA/FDA regulated facility (API quota is a big deal) so it just went away. Yup this day I still couldn’t tell ya what it meant.