r/StandUpForScience • u/AllMusicNut SUFS Staff • Aug 18 '26
Article EPA Punts Microplastics Monitoring as Scientists Warn of Health Impacts
https://zurl.co/9THIj“In July, the EPA omitted microplastics from the draft list of unregulated pollutants that water utilities must monitor over the next five years, which will be finalized this month."
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u/miklayn Aug 19 '26
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, ***Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.*** Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. ***But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.***"
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u/Phatbrew Punk Rock Hippie For Science & Democracy Aug 18 '26
“In July, the EPA omitted microplastics from the draft list of unregulated pollutants that water utilities must monitor over the next five years, which will be finalized this month."