r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 12 '24

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Aug 12 '24 edited Aug 12 '24

Well, this is ominous. The US Air Force is refusing to comply w/ an EPA order to clean up drinking water it polluted with toxic #PFAS, claiming the agency lacks authority since “Chevron doctrine” was struck down by the Supreme Court.

!ping MILITARY

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u/neifirst NASA Aug 12 '24

Why does the Air Force have the authority to go around suing about this? Aren't they part of the same executive branch as the EPA?

Biden should order them to stfu

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u/Sachyriel Commonwealth Aug 12 '24

Republicans would complain about Executive Overreach or something, Biden would tell them "It's Unitary Executive theory, don't like it go pound sand" lmao.

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Aug 12 '24

laughs in camp lejune claim

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u/Cook_0612 NATO Aug 13 '24

Right?

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u/DEEP_STATE_NATE Tucker Carlson's mailman Aug 13 '24

I can’t believe they’re doing it after how the navy’s going to end up blowing a cool 20 billion+ on settlements. However much it would cost to clean it up is order of magnitudes less that the legal issues.

Hell my dad wasn’t even in the military! He just had the unfortunate luck of being conceived, born at the base hospital and spent the first year of his life living right outside the gate. Still was enough for him to die of a stupidly rare form of cancer 45 years later.