the Trump administration endangered public health by keeping a widely used pesticide on the market despite extensive scientific evidence that even tiny levels of exposure can harm babies’ brains.
Chlorpyrifos belongs to a family of organophosphate pesticides that are chemically similar to a chemical warfare agent developed by Nazi Germany before World War II.
Could the widespread use of this pesticide explain the behavior of the Republican Party?
White, racist, and brain damaged is no way to run a country…
I like it!
“The panel held that there was no justification for the EPA’s decision in its 2017 order to maintain a tolerance for chlorpyrifos in the face of scientific evidence that its residue on food causes neurodevelopmental damage to children,” Judge Jed S. Rakoff wrote in the court’s opinion.
Wait a minute! Ya mean that the Environmental Protection Agency is supposed to, like, protect the environment and people’s health?
The Associated Press reported in June 2017 that Pruitt announced his agency’s reversal on chlorpyrifos just 20 days after his official schedule showed a meeting with Dow CEO Andrew Liveris. At the time, Liveris headed a White House manufacturing working group, and his company had written a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump’s inaugural festivities.
Nauseating.
Friggin’ criminals should be sentenced to drink a glass of this shit themselves …
or dipped like Judge Doom -----
Dow did not respond to an email seeking comment.
I hope innocent literalists don’t decide to spray corporate HQ, and the White House, and Pruitt, with this stuff, even if they were to say they were doing it “with full respect for human health and the environment."