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Power companies pressure Trump EPA to roll back coal ash rules. (energynews.us)

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A letter signed by executives from a dozen firms asks the EPA to let the companies off the hook for cleaning up scores of harmful coal-ash sites.

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[–] Cat@ponder.cat 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I saw a good amount of the posts here and they all are either about health or climate😅

I find the whole setup unfunctional in the long-term as at a certain stages this community might lean towards public health news only.

I just wanted a place to be able to post my “general news about the US” stuff, and it seemed like the consensus talking to people was that allowing political news also would basically mean it got taken over by politics, and then it’s 10% other US news but basically a politics place, of which there already are some good ones so why make another.

If that is the case then why don't you post at climate community and the public health community?

I am not arguing about the rule here, but I am suggesting combining efforts to not split the small community to even smaller communities, especially since those communities are not hosted on the main .world instance.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 3 points 1 day ago

I saw a good amount of the posts here and they all are either about health or climate😅

Not really. Going chronologically, it's turtles, then this story, then homeschooling, prison escape, power plants, police corruption, tuberculosis, dolphins.

This is brand new as of right now, not really with any particular vibe to it that I know of. It started a few days ago from a conversation a few of us were having that there really isn't a good place to put just miscellaneous news that's US-specific. Lemmy.world, lemmy.ml, and midwest.social all have a big community for it but they also all have some kind of minor issues with the instances, so I decided to make this, and the consensus was to keep politics out of it which I was generally in favor of once I gave it some thought.

It's just non-political-adjacent news only, to keep it from being overwhelmed by politics, since there's already tons of US political news on Lemmy. It's not that deep. 🙂