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Comment Re:Smart Norway (Score 1) 85

Companies that care about their bottom line are likely to say, "Thanks but no thanks".

Companies that don't want to do business in your country tend not to provide many jobs to your people.

Companies that don't care about their bottom line tend to go bankrupt.

Companies that have gone bankrupt tend not to employ so many people, either.

Submission + - Chemical Makers Sue Over Rule to Rid Water of 'Forever Chemicals' (nytimes.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: Chemical and manufacturing groups sued the federal government late Monday over a landmark drinking-water standard that would require cleanup of so-called forever chemicals linked to cancer and other health risks. The industry groups said that the government was exceeding its authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act by requiring that municipal water systems all but remove six synthetic chemicals, known by the acronym PFAS, that are present in the tap water of hundreds of millions of Americans. The Environmental Protection Agency has said that the new standard,put in place in April, will prevent thousands of deaths and reduce tens of thousands of serious illnesses. The E.P.A.’s cleanup standard was also expected to prompt a wave of litigation against chemical manufacturers by water utilities nationwide trying to recoup their cleanup costs. Utilities have also challenged the stringent new standard, questioning the underlying science and citing the cost of filtering the toxic chemicals out of drinking water.

In a joint filing late Monday, the American Chemistry Council and National Association of Manufacturers said the E.P.A. rule was “arbitrary, capricious and an abuse of discretion.” The petition was filed in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. In a separate petition, the American Water Works Association and the Association of Metropolitan Water Agencies said the E.P.A. had “significantly underestimated the costs” of the rule. Taxpayers could ultimately foot the bill in the form of increased water rates, they said. PFAS, a vast class of chemicals also called per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, are widespread in the environment. They are commonly found in people’s blood, and a 2023 government study of private wells and public water systems detected PFAS chemicalsin nearly half the tap water in the country. Exposure to PFAS has been associated with developmental delays in children, decreased fertility in women and increased risk of some cancers,according to the E.P.A. [...] The E.P.A. estimates that it would cost water utilities about $1.5 billion annually to comply with the rule, though utilities have said the costs could be twice that amount.

Submission + - Dr. Ed Stone, Voyager Project Scientist, passes away

Submitted by hackertourist
hackertourist writes: Edward C. Stone, former director of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and project scientist of the Voyager mission for 50 years, died on June 9, 2024. He was age 88.

Stone served on nine NASA missions as either principal investigator or a science instrument lead, and on five others as a co-investigator (a key science instrument team member). These roles primarily involved studying energetic ions from the Sun and cosmic rays from the galaxy. He had the distinction of being one of the few scientists involved with both the mission that has come closest to the Sun (NASA’s Parker Solar Probe) and the one that has traveled farthest from it (Voyager).

Stone is best known for his work on NASA’s longest-running mission, Voyager, whose twin spacecraft launched in 1977 and are still exploring deep space today. He served as Voyager’s sole project scientist from 1972 until his retirement in 2022. Under Stone’s leadership, the mission took advantage of a celestial alignment that occurs just once every 176 years to visit Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune. The mission transformed our understanding of the solar system, and is still providing useful data today.

Comment Re:The 20% are just the ones dumb enough to admit (Score 1) 119

It's why Interest rates stay high even though the only thing bumping inflation right now is landlord collusion & billionaires buying up all the houses to rent.

Ah, there's your same old bullshit. Almost forgot I was reading rsilvergun's keyboard droolings.

Florida would like to have a chat with you.

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