Meryl Nass Goes Full Neoliberal on EPA Destruction

by Scott Creighton

Meryl Nass thinks we gotta break some eggs to make America fascist again.

Get that EPA out of the way of Big Business! Let 'em pollute til the cows can't come home anymore cus they can't see their way through the smog!

Gotta break some eggs for Big Business to be unleashed upon the world for profits and prosperity. Screw your backyard! The invisible hand will clean it up and if not... it's your fault for being poor and living there anyway.

'Sure there will be problems. Sure there will be new and different forms of pollution. Sure people will lose their jobs. And then we will work diligently to fix the messes that resulted as we try to make our country better: more prosperous, healthy, and able to think clearly. Businesses were being smothered, and when the Net Zero targets got implemented, that was going to be the end of American industry.' Meryl Nass

Yeah folks will lose their jobs and property and health and... she forgets to mention... their lives. The lives of their parents, children, friends, pets, neighbors... yeah... so what? asks Meryl. We'll just rebuild in the wake of the Fascist Wet Dream as they count all that prosperity... we'll rebuild and think about it and everything will be alright in the end... says Meryl Nass...

Except of course for the people who loose their lives, land, family, businesses... 

Don't want them glorious businesses to be smothered do we Meryl? 

It's no wonder she was doing panel talks with Frank Gafney and other neocons last summer. She's one of em.

Industry-Backed Legislation Would Bar the Use of Science Behind Hundreds of Environmental Protections

from ProPublica

For decades, Republican lawmakers and industry lobbyists have tried to chip away at the small program in the Environmental Protection Agency that measures the threat of toxic chemicals.

Most people don’t know IRIS, as the program is called, but it is the scientific engine of the agency that protects human health and the environment. Its scientists assess the toxicity of chemicals, estimating the amount of each that triggers cancer and other health effects. And these values serve as the independent, nonpartisan basis for the rules, regulations and permits that limit our exposure to toxic chemicals.

Now IRIS faces the gravest threat to its existence since it was created under President Ronald Reagan four decades ago.