U.S. regulators say they will review the use of a chemical found in almost every tire after a petition from West Coast Native American tribes that want it banned because it kills salmon as they return from the ocean to their natal streams to spawn.
The Yurok tribe in California and the Port Gamble S’Klallam and Puyallup tribes in Washington asked the Environmental Protection Agency to prohibit the rubber preservative 6PPD earlier this year, saying it kills fish — especially coho salmon — when rains wash it from roadways into rivers. Washington, Oregon, Vermont, Rhode Island and Connecticut also wrote the EPA, citing the chemical’s “unreasonable threat” to their waters and fisheries.
The agency’s decision to grant the petition last week is the start of a long regulatory process that could see the chemical banned. Tire manufacturers are already looking for an alternative that still meets federal safety requirements.
“We could not sit idle while 6PPD kills the fish that sustain us,” Joseph L. James, chairperson of the Yurok Tribe, told The Associated Press. “This lethal toxin has no business in any salmon-bearing watershed.”
Fucking salmon had it coming.
Fine. You people downvote me. Go here and read the last thing on the list that salmon eat and tell me they aren’t monsters: https://a-z-animals.com/blog/what-do-salmon-eat/
They’re monsters because they eat squid?
Yes. How would you feel if they ate several thousand of your brothers and sisters?
In it for the long game. Respect.
Do you know how the PNW Ecosystem works? Without salmon there is nothing
Do you know how many of my family salmon have eaten? We can’t even fly away fast enough.
I’m ashamed that 13 users would downvote your obviously sincere and genuine hatred for the creatures that haven literally eaten your family members.
But, I do feel it bit albeist, as clearly they’re humor-impaired. Possibly morons as well, but not enough data points to confirm that, so it’s just a suspicion…for now.
They’re bigoted against cephalopods. That’s the plain truth of it.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/6PPD
That sounds pretty nasty. Coho salmon are particularly sensitive. It is also found in human urine but its effects are not yet understood. We just learned in 2020 that 6DDPq continues to break down into quinones, so we didn’t really understand this stuff before pumping tons of it into our environment.
It prevents dry rot and cracking of tires. I wonder what chemical is in “tire protectant” that serves a similar purpose.
