US Government to Allow Some Semiconductor Fabs to Circumvent Environmental Laws

[R-T-B]

I just don't like the narrative of the common person having to foot the bill, we have to "do our part" to save the planet (from who knows what) while governments make up excuses to pollute more. It awfully reminds me of the UK government throwing massive parties while the rest of us sat at home in lockdown during COVID. Lies, lies everywhere.

I feel you. As I said, not exactly pleased with it myself.

 

[Ferrum Master]

UK government throwing massive parties while the rest of us sat at home in lockdown during COVID. Lies, lies everywhere.

To be fair... that's what you voted for... what did you expect?

 

[AusWolf]

To be fair... that's what you voted for... what did you expect?

I didn't. I'm not even a UK citizen. Voting doesn't have anything to do with it anyway, as you can't vote on what's happening, only on which idiot is behind all the happenings.

 

[Ferrum Master]

I didn't. I'm not even a UK citizen. Voting doesn't have anything to do with it anyway, as you can't vote on what's happening, only on which idiot is behind all the happenings.

Now you sound like a Soviet citizen

 

[the54thvoid]

Stop the OT politics, or I swear, I'll temp ban the next post.

 

[maxfly]

And now we wait for the lawsuits to roll in. To at least force some transparency and at best, force these companies to clean up their messes...20-30-50 years from now.

 

[mechtech]

Murica!!!!!!!

Lead paint and Agent Orange are back on the menu!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Minus Infinity]

Sounds like they are reading the Australian government's play book on watering down environmental protection for gas and coal projects. We need a million Erin Brokovich's.

 

[csendesmark]

The environment is super important, until it's not

 

[Sam32]

I didn't. I'm not even a UK citizen. Voting doesn't have anything to do with it anyway, as you can't vote on what's happening, only on which idiot is behind all the happenings.

There are candidates who run on the platform of scaling down the government, so government will do LESS things and will interfere LESS with people’s lives.

But this platform is not popular, people vote for government which will “fix” things for them.

So the government “fixes” things by forcing lockdowns and a huge pile of other regulations - constantly.

Contrary to the popular belief, large corporations love government regulation.

Government regulation helps large corporations compete against smaller rivals and new upcoming players.

This here is a great example. Smaller companies have no choice but to comply with (often expensive and time consuming) regulations.

While for large corporations, not only this is generally less burdensome because of economy of scale, but they also get to circumvent it entirely in some cases.

 

[kondamin]

I assume it’s water and power use, those are things that can be mitigated along the way of the plats life time.
as long as it’s not them getting permission to just dump waste etching chemicals in the local water system this doesnt have to be that bad a thing.

if they make over sized water treatment facilities it could actually be beneficial in the long run

 

[Tahagomizer]

I'll just leave this here.