As it happened in Texas, ignoring EPA science can cause contamination and cancer stupid.
The Trump administration plans to destroy EPA science.
The cow is grazed near the Oak Grobe Power Plant in Robertson County, Texas, and in accordance with the EPA (EPA) rules for reducing carbon emissions and mercury pollution under the BIDEN administration.
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I have a scientific career to the US Environmental Protection Bureau to request more powerful and legitimate public health protection from toxic chemicals. I always agree with the final decision of the EPA, but I always respect the scientific process and always thank the public brain trust, the scientist of the agency.
The Trump administration was announced in one of the most dangerous behaviors of facts and science. March It will close the independent research office of the EPA. Because of this, chemicals, for example, chemical pose Cancer riskOr is a factory Pollution nearby rivers. At the same time, Trump’s EPA installed a transfer. oil and Chemical Industrial lobits write rules to regulate the industry.
There are many empty conversations Make us healthy From this administration. Future generations will get worse.
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What is not said by Trump EPA is as follows. Removing scientists from EPA is kneeling on environmental protection. All major environmental laws, such as the SUPERFUND LAW (Clean Air Act), which manages Clean Air Act, SAFE drinking water and cleaning requirements, calculate how dangerous the dangerous chemicals are, how dangerous chemicals can be exposed to EPA scientists, and how they can be exposed to human and wild animals, and health and ecological damage. An important question for the protection of the environment and community: Example: Studies as follows: Will it be exposed to this chemical in my job or the risk of breast cancer? Is the air quality of power plant emissions safe for neighboring communities? What is the acceptable standard for the eternal chemicals of drinking water?
On January 30, 2024, on Tuesday, Tuesday, Sulfur Bank Mercury MINE SUPERFUND site in Clearlake Oaks in California.
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Instead, the Trump team is swinging the electric top again to prefer the pollution industry for independent science. As a result of rejecting the government’s scientific investigation and the extinction of academic scientific research, only one type of scientific research will be provided to establish environmental standards: Pollutant studies. And it is a problem. The public has the right to distrust the science sponsored by pollutants. See the myth of “tobacco science” and the myth of safety nuclear waste.
Ask Texas. Texas Intense defense The results of ethylene oxide, a well -known carcinogen, provide a continuous example of the risk of public health in science, which is carried out by the pollutant industries with financial interest in the results. and Support for the state’s hell of rewriting scientific facts about cancer that causes cancer.
In 2016, after almost 10 years of research and analysis, the EPA determined the ethylene oxide, a chemical used in Texas and Louisiana facilities to sterilize medical equipment. It is connected to the cancerThere is a risk of 30 times larger than the EPA found before. EPA’s new risk assessment included research on over. 300 breast cancer It has been adjusted to suit the case of women working with chemicals and further risks that children can be exposed.
EPA report After several internal reviews and other government agencies, public opinions, including Texas and the industry, were confirmed several times. There were also two public reviews by the Science Advisory Board.
The chemical industry and the Texas regulators have issued their own instead of accepting the discovery. Alternative report 2020 ethylene oxide. In contrast to EPA’s evaluation, Texas evaluation Contractor boost Ethylene oxide industryPublic review is limited. that I can’t explain it The risk of breast cancer and more than 3,000 times of air pollution can be released, which will greatly increase diseases and deaths from cancer in workers and nearby communities.
To force the EPA to adopt Texas’s cancer -friendly risk estimates nationwide, Texas has requested the results of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering.
In March, the National Academy issued him. Final reportIt has been repeatedly escaped from the best scientific practices by reproving the foundation of Texas analysis, and has not provided a “trusted foundation”, especially ethylene oxide, is not related to breast cancer.
Texas’s efforts to re -fill the history of ethylene oxide that causes cancer into positive and abnormal chemicals are only the beginning of toxic body injury.
The truth will be the standard to erase evidence of cancer, to collect data, and to pretend to be rough claims, to compromise our rights to our health, undermining all environmental laws and regulations of the state.
We all will suffer for it.
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