Posted on 11/08/2023 12:54:59 PM PST by Olog-hai
The 13 largest U.S. tire manufacturers are facing a lawsuit from a pair of California commercial fishing organizations that could force the companies to stop using a chemical added to almost every tire because it kills migrating salmon.
Also found in footwear, synthetic turf and playground equipment, the rubber preservative 6PPD has been used in tires for 60 years. As tires wear, tiny particles of rubber are left behind on roads and parking lots, breaking down into a byproduct, 6PPD-quinone, that is deadly to salmon, steelhead trout and other aquatic wildlife when rains wash it into rivers.
“This is the biggest environmental disaster that the world doesn’t quite know about yet,” said Elizabeth Forsyth, an attorney with the environmental law firm Earthjustice, which is representing the fishing groups. “It’s causing devastating impacts to threatened and endangered species.”
The Institute for Fisheries Resources and the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Wednesday against Goodyear, Bridgestone, Continental and others. …
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but their diesel powered boats in the ocean dumping bilge water and exhaust in to the water is a-okay!
Electric hovercraft made out of cardboard should fix everything.
Next problem?
Oh, they’ll work on getting rid of those too.
Tire dust is killing the blow fish!
More bull sh*t coming out of CA...What a shocker!
I drove over a Tarantula a few days ago. It was too quick to avoid.
I have never driven over a salmon, rubber tires or steel tracks either.
The problem/issue is fixable-no tires out there. Would it help? Perhaps not but it wouldn’t hurt now would it? Naysayers here bring out our critics and the fence sitters follow the feel-good ideas. Where does it put us?
I would think that after 60 years that, if this is so deadly, all the fish would be long gone. More spitting into the wind by California communists.
The rate of wear of tire-tread rubber in the United States is about 660,000 tons per year.
For comparison, exhaust particulates from gasoline powered vehicles are estimated at 300,000 metric tons.
660,000 tons of rubber dust going into the environment every year is a LOT of rubber.
You’ve got to be kidding. What a bunch of morons.
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Fifty three years in the sudden war against all pollution, some biddies found things to scream about.
1 Road Salt
2 burning Christmas Trees in bonfires
2 rubber tire particles on roads.
We were assured then that none of this hurt or caused pollution. the salts were dilluted, the trees began to be buried in landfills and tire particles were being broken down by bacteria along the roads.
Thats ok. EVs will fix all that, they are much lighter than gasoline powered cars..
oh wait.
They use ground up tires as a base for artificial turf fields. There has been some concern about cancer and goalies (spend a lot of time on the ground).
They use granite tires on their vehicles, I can assure you.
The 13 largest U.S. tire manufacturers are facing a lawsuit from a pair of California commercial fishing organizations.
Wonder if they are going after the state for the billions of tons of sewage they spilled in the the ocean over the years.
And Japan for all the nuke water they are dumping into it.
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