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"Of all the conservative efforts to persuade the Trump administration to
weaken the nation’s environmental rules, the dishwasher lobby might be
the most peculiar.
“Dishwashers used to clean a full load of filthy dishes in under an
hour. But now they take an average of two and a half hours and STILL
leave dishes dirty!” reads one online petition promoted by FreedomWorks,
a libertarian offshoot of a group co-founded by the late David H. Koch
and his brother Charles Koch, who made their fortune in fossil fuels.
The decline of American dishwashers, the site says, is “all thanks to
crazy environmentalist rules.”
The petition, titled “Make Dishwashers Great Again,” is just one part of
a broad campaign coordinated by conservative organizations with ties to
fossil-fuel companies. Trump administration emails made public as part
of a lawsuit filed by the Sierra Club shed new light on the effort,
designed to persuade the Trump administration to weaken standards on a
long list of home appliances."
Via Jennifer Freeman.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
