7/18/19: Andrew Wheeler, the rebranded Big Coal lobbyist, continues to run the EPA as if the initials stand for “Every Pollutant Allowed.”
Despite warnings from EPA scientists, Wheeler and the political hacks he brought in to run the agency, decide not to ban chlorpyrifos. The chemical is linked to serious health effects in children. This is seen as a victory for the chemical industry – and farmers.
Children?
Not so much.
According to EPA experts, now ignored with Wheeler at the wheel, “Chlorpyrifos can cause cholinesterase inhibition in humans at high enough doses; that is, it can overstimulate the nervous system causing nausea, dizziness, confusion, and at very high exposures (e.g., accidents or major spills), respiratory paralysis and death [emphasis added, unless otherwise noted].”
Other recent EPA decisions allowed the increased use of pesticides that beekeepers say, “decimate beneficial insects,” and rolled back regulations regarding the use of asbestos, a known carcinogen.
Meanwhile, “Snowball” Jim Inhofe gives a speech on the U.S. Senate floor. He claims that the “Trump Administration may go down as one of the truly great environmental administrations” in the history of our country. He has a chart, showing that since 1970 combined emissions of the six most common pollutants have declined by 74%. Apparently, all environmental progress in the last half century is the result of the efforts of Donald J. Trump.
To prove his point – that the United States needs to do nothing more to protect the environment, because the environment is doing great – Snowball Jim cited the work of Richard Lindzen of MIT. Lindzen, he said, has been “calling out climate alarmists for years.”
It takes almost no effort to
find a letter
in which 22 leading scientists at MIT make clear. Lindzen’s positions regarding
climate change and contributing pollutants are pretty much BS. (See: 8/29/19.)
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Andrew Wheeler - probably thinking about how much he hates bees. |
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A “HIGH-END Russian hooker ring” is broken up in Florida, operating out of Trump Tower Miami.
You can’t make this up.
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