#toxic waste dumps

[0zzysaurus]

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

[mjhartwork]

dumping valley

[thefloatingstone]

Is there any way to watch Attack on Titan and be able to mentally divorce the product as you're watching it from its dogshit creator and his HORRENDOUS opinions or is his vitriolic racism, jingoism, imperialism and hatred specifically but not exclusively to Korea so baked into the narrative of the story it's impossible to watch and pretend that shit isn't literally the main narrative?

[rjzimmerman]

Wow.....an actual "win" for the environment in this new trump regime. At least for now.....watch him figure out a way to reverse this. Excerpt from this Chicago Tribune story:

After yearslong litigation from residents and activists, and following recent opposition from the state of Illinois, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers announced Tuesday it was dropping a plan to expand a toxic waste dump on the Southeast Side of Chicago.

Over the next two decades, the proposed 25-foot vertical expansion along the Lake Michigan shoreline would have taken in an additional 1 million cubic yards of contaminated sediment dredged from the Calumet River — the Corps’ solution to the disposal site’s now-full 45 acres.

“This is very good news and a victory for Chicagoans and all of us who care about protecting healthy communities and Lake Michigan,” said Howard Learner, executive director of the Environmental Law and Policy Center and lead attorney for community groups in litigation against the Army Corps.

After denying the Army Corps all of the state water quality permits needed to proceed, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency sent a letter saying the proposal was contrary to some environmental regulations, including an Illinois law that prohibits the construction of new landfills or the expansion of existing landfills in Cook County.

Learner said the agency’s proposal “defies common sense.”

In a news release, the Army Corps said it will work with the state, the city and the Illinois International Port District to explore “sustainable and feasible alternatives.”

[divorcedfiddleford]

alex hirsch owes me money for all the times he's published a book that made it impossible for me to engage online with one of my favorite cartoons of all time

[catboynutsack]

if the military is doing some bullshit with radioactive shit with no transparency and causing panic in Jersey AGAIN I'm gonna lose my shit

[thatgingerloser]

what a joke.

[andyridgeley]

i can't wait until terry silver emerges completely nude from a bath of toxic waste in the middle of the sekai taikai

[t4lon]

i saw a very eye-opening post about this but as someone who supports people's rights to identify as whatever because gender and sexuality are social constructs, i do think we need to address the fact that if you think it's ok for trans men or other trans/nb male-identifying people to identify as lesbians, it needs to also be ok for cis men to do the same or you are still being bio or gender essentialist

but like that is Not a can of worms some folks are ready to open and im a little worried it may push people back into just saying Words Mean Things rather than confront their ideas of what men are, or who is allowed to be attracted to women in a "lesbian" or "sapphic" way

bc any definition that excludes Solely Cis Men is gonna have questionable implications about gender. seriously

[0zzysaurus]

might as well dump the recent update from earlier here even tho I’m not entirely satisfied with it —

[jbfly46]

Toxic and nuclear waste dumped in the southeast makes everyone there retarded, and authorities will accuse you of being on drugs for suffering from the side effects.

[pissjesus]

Why am I watching grown people who seem to be mildly intelligent get into South Park in 2023. Grow up.

[rjzimmerman]

Excerpt from this Chicago Tribune story:

In a letter filed in federal court, the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency said the proposed expansion of a toxic waste dump on the Southeast Side would go against state law. It’s the latest development in a lengthy battle over the future of a 45-acre disposal site on the Lake Michigan shoreline.

“This is a major win for our community, to have both the Illinois attorney general and the Illinois EPA say that the expansion of this toxic landfill will not be (approved),” said Amalia NietoGomez, executive director of social justice nonprofit Alliance of the Southeast.

Since 1984, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has been dumping toxic sediment dredged from the Calumet River into the now-full containment site, which contains mercury, arsenic and polychlorinated biphenyls or PCBs. After reaching capacity or after 10 years, whichever came first, the property was to be returned to the Chicago Park District to restore as a park for the largely Black and Latino community.

Four decades later, the property hasn’t been turned over to the community, and the Army Corps wants to raise the dump 25 feet, piling an additional 1 million cubic yards of toxic sediment over another 20 years. In 2023, the Alliance of the Southeast and Friends of the Parks sued the Army Corps to stop the expansion.

So far, the Illinois EPA has denied the federal agency all of the state water quality permits it would need to proceed. The state’s Attorney General Kwame Raoul has also staunchly opposed the proposed project; in 2024 he filed an amicus brief in support of turning the dump into a public park.

More recently on Jan. 16, Raoul filed — alongside a supplemental brief with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois — a letter that the state’s environmental agency had sent to the Army Corps the previous day. In that letter, the Illinois EPA said the Army Corps’ proposal is contrary to some environmental regulations, including an Illinois law that prohibits the construction of new landfills or the expansion of existing landfills in Cook County.

[sketchs-trashcan]

i wasn't even invested in this splatfest but honestly, the fact that frye had two-thirds of the votes and still lost is incredibly upsetting not to mention that shover won again

[destinymylove]

wait im still so mad abt the smash or pass post like first of all the comments are so fuckin braindead i cant even read them without taking 1d6 psychic damage but also thats not even the point of smash or pass

i show you a fucking picture and you say whether you'd smash or pass. THATS IT. THATS THE GAME. you get THREE seconds tops to think about it!! youre supposed to think with your pussy what the fuck is up with those people typing up paragraphs of (incorrect) reasons arthurs morally repugnant like you can be wrong and stupid thats okay but the fucking fact of the matter is that bradley james's face card does not ever decline and if it takes you three hundred words of reactionary pearl clutching to talk urself out of smashing arthur mf pendragon ur a loser

[trannykong]

I've been datin' someone and they dumped me this morning and honestly I'm so relieved 'cause now I don't gotta breakup w/ them