Posted on 01/30/2020 11:39:43 PM PST by nickcarraway
Florida cities and counties wouldn't be able to ban sunscreens containing ingredients that some researchers say harm coral reefs, under a bill passed by the state Senate on Wednesday.
The Senate voted 25-14 in favor of the bill after no discussion or debate. If it becomes law, a Key West ordinance to ban the sale of sunscreens containing oxybenzone or octinoxate would be nullified. The Key West ban is set to go into effect next year.
Research has shown the chemicals can cause coral bleaching, and the reefs around Key West attract divers, snorkelers and fishing enthusiasts. But Republican Sen. Rob Bradley has said previously that he sponsored the bill because protecting people is more important, and the research hasn't proven the chemicals actually harm reefs.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcmiami.com ...
And the research hasn’t proven that reefs actually get cancer.
Ban the ban!
Points awarded to headline writer for “block”.
“because protecting people is more important”
What a thought!
Why would anyone apply sunscreen on coral reefs? Let them use beach umbrellas instead. Besides, maybe they want to get tan...
Better to make it a fine for the lifeguards to give out when they see one slathered and in the water if they want to protect the reefs.
Typical leftist rules. Like the Green New Deal, it ruins society thoughtlessly. The GND wipes out jobs worse than Hillary's war on Coal, it would bring back travel by horses (and the poo from them on the streets) and all who depend on energy (especially air conditioning in Florida) would suffer immensely.
I predict more of these leftist bans until we vote the B*stards out again and again until they can't get elected as a Dog Catcher. I expect the craziness to accelerate on the Left toward this November and pray all Americans will wake up before we let folks like these into power once again.
While Key West is banning sunscreen ingredients, does Miami still pump raw sewage into the ocean where it travels south covering and killing coral reefs in the Keys?
I don’t know but the septic tanks in the Keys are reportedly old and inefficient... either that or some politician has an interest in a fiberglass septic tank company.
FL ping.
Either you get cancer or the reef does.
I hate to break the news to Democrats in Florida, but you’d need an oceanliner size tanker’s worth of sunscreen to be dropped directly on top of a reef, in one place, just to have a measurable amount stick around long enough to possibly do any harm. To put it another way, there is a LOT of water in the ocean, and it doesn’t stand still.
But this is a good illustration of Democrat priorities. They’re will to expose THEIR OWN PEOPLE to skin cancer to score some political points with environmentalists (think Fascists), as I understand beach-going to be a bipartisan activity. One can only imagine* what they have in store for us Deplorables, if they can isolate us first.
*and to get an idea for that, read up on what China does to their version of ‘Deplorables’, Fulan Gong and others - it’s called organ harvesting.
the govt. way in south Fla. is to ban stuff rather than enforce laws and rules with people actually having to leave air conditioned cars or offices to go out amidst the public where the rules and laws are being flaunted 24/7.
It’s stoopid to ban suntan oil or cream but smart to ban touching coral when you have it on your hands.Since local govt. is lazy they generally do the stoopid thing.
I smell a set up! Bringing about Laws so that Republicans have to vote them down and then using that vote against the Pubbies. You can tell when there is an election right around the corner.
IIRC, Clinton made a sweeping Law by EO, after GWB was elected but not yet Inaugurated. It was a Law banning previously acceptable amounts of a chemical (sorry, I cannot remember which chemical it was) in water. GWB had to rescind it when he arrived in the WH and Big Media had a conniption..
Exactly. Outlaw sunscreen...skin cancer rates go up significantly... global warming/climate change effect. Must end capitalism!
if u fly out of miami on a clear calm day u used to able to see the broad sewage stream moving south
Started out in the Navy on the water at 18, taught scuba and on the water almost everyday after that for 6 years in Florida after the Navy. Since then run my own charter boat and on the Gulf almost everyday conditions allow and now 54. I’ve NEVER used sunscreen. No skin cancer, no skin spots, and look at least 10 years younger than I am. I burn maybe once at the beginning of the year, it peels, then good for the rest of the year.
Not covered up in clothing, bare skin except shorts and short sleeve shirt or hat on my bald head.
My opinion in my position, I’d never apply all those chemicals on a daily basis risking what gets absorbed through the skin.
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