#SuperFunds

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[saywhat-politics]

Law Holds Fossil Fuel Companies Responsible for Impact of Pollution on New York Communities

Bill Signed to Broaden State Ban on Hydraulic Fracturing

Actions are Latest Move to Strengthen State’s Climate Actions and Environmental Protection Laws to Prevent Harmful Impacts to New Yorkers

Governor Kathy Hochul today signed landmark legislation to bolster New York’s efforts to protect and restore the environment by requiring large fossil fuel companies to pay for critical projects that protect New Yorkers. Legislation S.2129-B/A.3351-B creates a ‘Climate Superfund’ to support New York-based projects that bolster New York’s resiliency to dangerous climate impacts like flooding and extreme heat.

“With nearly every record rainfall, heatwave, and coastal storm, New Yorkers are increasingly burdened with billions of dollars in health, safety, and environmental consequences due to polluters that have historically harmed our environment,” Governor Hochul said. “Establishing the Climate Superfund is the latest example of my administration taking action to hold polluters responsible for the damage done to our environment and requiring major investments in infrastructure and other projects critical to protecting our communities and economy.”

This landmark legislation shifts the cost of climate adaptation from everyday New Yorkers to the fossil fuel companies most responsible for the pollution. By creating a Climate Change Adaptation Cost Recovery Program, this law ensures that these companies contribute to the funding of critical infrastructure investments, such as coastal protection and flood mitigation systems, to enhance the climate resilience of communities across the state.

[opens-up-4-nobody]

Ok. I work on a floor with 2 bunsen burners and a flamible/combustible liquids cabnet. Last week, I realized I didn't know where the fire extinguisher was (despite frequently using an open flame). Turns out it is out the door and down the hall. About as far from the fire hazards as possible. And I can't stop thinking abt it. Like. That feels fucking crazy right? I ask bc I seem to be the only person who cares. I told my advisor that I think we should have more fire extinguishers and he looked at me blank faced (despite the fact that he had to actively wander around the whole floor bc he also didn't kno where it was). And like yeah, in 20 years they haven't had a fire and maybe they never will but this feels like a fucking common sense preventative measure? It's just tempting fate. The hubris of not putting a fire extinguisher next to a bunsen burner is driving me crazy?? It's not even in the same god damn room! You would have to run out the room, sprint down the hall, open the case, and sprint back to use it! Why am I the only one who cares???

[whattimeisitmisterwolf]

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[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this New York Times story:

Vermont and New York recently became the first states to create “Climate Superfund” laws, which will require energy companies to help pay for the costs of dealing with extreme weather and climate change.

As wildfires devastate the Los Angeles area, some are asking if California could become the third.

“Taxpayers are shouldering 100 percent of the burden of climate-fueled disasters,” said Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute at the Center for Biological Diversity, adding that this kind of legislation would “take some of the burden off Californians.”

But whether these new laws can survive what are expected to be fierce legal challenges from the oil industry and its allies is an open question. The first salvo was filed last month in Vermont federal court by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute. The suit called on the court to block Vermont’s law, arguing that it was unconstitutional and would impose “irrational and arbitrary punishment” based on flawed calculations.

“Vermont is not home to any of the energy producers it hopes to regulate,” the lawsuit said. “Nevertheless, it seeks to impose significant monetary penalties on those producers, potentially subjecting other states to increased energy costs, while reaping the financial benefits.”

The new state laws are modeled after the decades-old federal Superfund program, which requires companies to pay for cleaning up hazardous waste. That was a fairly straightforward approach to remediation: Specific sites — say, an old factory or a waste dump — could be identified, investigated and individually addressed.

By contrast, the climate superfund laws rely on emerging fields of science to more broadly quantify economic losses that can be attributed to climate change, and to determine which companies are most responsible.

In California, a climate superfund bill was introduced last year and did not advance, but Ms. Siegel said that she expected the bill to be reintroduced soon. Similar bills have also been proposed in Maryland, Massachusetts and New Jersey.

The climate superfund laws are running on a parallel track to a raft of lawsuits by state and local governments accusing oil companies of covering up the danger of climate change and saying that they should bear the costs. Those lawsuits are facing varying reception in state courtrooms around the country.

[agbpaints]

Oh my fucking god just let me sleep

[rgr-pop]

i finally got a plat with the location where my jewish family farmed in the 1920s because of a new map initiative at the state archives. i had narrowed down the location based on census approximations and a hunch that it would have been next to the only other documented jewish farm in that part of the county, which was proven to be correct. it turns out that the two jewish farms in springfield township were also the site of one of the first superfunds in the state of michigan. the shindler farm had been sold this guy who used it to illegally manufacture whiskey, but when the feds cracked down on him for that, he pivoted to selling dumping access on his property. you see this often enough with superfunds but usually it’s like a local paint company or something. in this case it was ford and chrysler. paying this guy to let them dump barrels of toxic waste on his small farm. it’s all very umm yiddish novel, very me.

[squeakadeeks]

Where the fuck did you get shell pasta that BIG and BLUE?

the large shells you can buy in the store as "jumbo shells" but they dont start out blue. that particular dish was several years in the making.

it started with a few years ago when i had the brilliant idea to try and make mac and cheese with the big shells they normally use for stuffed pasta dishes. it was nauseating and felt like eating slugs.

then in the years between i went on many fun fanciful food adventures after i discovered "hey wait a minute i can add food coloring to anything" leading to green cookies, blue oatmeal, purple butter, etc. I added blue food coloring to the pasta water before/while they were cooking and it causes the pasta to absorb the dye beautifully.

for a more immersive experience i also add more dye to the velveta before calling it a day.

[epersonae]

🤖 for the ask game!

Mt Rainier (Tahoma) is the most heavily glaciated* mountain in the contiguous 48 states. While it's not in a lot of danger of a big eruption like Mt St Helens, it is known to have the potential for something called a lahar, where a hot spot near the surface melts the glacier, which combines with loose rock and mud to form a superheated avalanche-like flow. (There hasn't been one in a few thousand years, but it could happen. There is at least one town up close to the mountain that does lahar drills, including schoolkids.)

* this is a fact I learned circa 1995 in a class on "environmental and geological catastrophes", I assume it is still true even if glaciers have declined generally.

[send me an emoji and I will send you a fun* fact about my special interest(s)] *"fun" is kind of relative here tbh

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[clonerightsagenda]

Fantasy logistics are my passion so I am contemplating exactly what an undertaking cleaning up the afterlife would look like. Hopefully there are at least maps marking where the barriers are (they mentioned a cartography of dark London in the library, so fingers crossed) because otherwise you’ll need to send in scouts paired with bigger distraction teams to draw off the dead, and that’ll take a while to make sure you’ve got everything. Don’t want to tear down the gate and then learn you missed one. Then you need teardown teams paired with defense and probably another decoy group. The best strategy would probably be to bring something long and hook the barriers to tear them down from a distance, then wait for the stampede to finish before rolling the fencing up and carrying it back. Since that’s a lot of metal to carry, you’d probably only do one gate per job, and if you’re at all reasonable you’d give workers long rests between jobs and retire them after 2 or 3 given the physical side effects. It would make sense to stagger teams so you always have a few veterans (maybe that’s one of the reasons Lucy goes over again?) but it’s a lot of recruiting, a lot of training, and a lot of traveling to make sure there aren’t barriers set up in other places as well. NDAs or no, it’s hard to imagine everyone would keep their mouths shut. There should be an increasing number of out of work agents to hire, though. They ought to be able to afford to pay them really good hazard rates after seizing the assets of the country’s biggest corporation.

[inflagrante-delicatessen]

This episode of Excellent Ermines:

[0zzysaurus]

Who wants to go on a cross country trip with me here are all the places we are visiting

[heepthecheep]

My grandfather was at Bikini Atoll for both of operation crossroads' tests, when my mother was young a battery factory near her home exploded, when my father was young three mile Island melted down and his family fled to kin living just outside of Love Canal, there is a reason I am the way I am and you will all suffer me

[bobcat-pie]

i only accept my uquiz results if

A. i didn't get the most common result

B. the most common result isn't the result of above 50% of participants

[rockhyrax]

Emulsion geographies.