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Very long article - worth reading. U.S. Right to Know advocates
"Pursuing truth and transparency for public health"
No one in government who is supposed to be responding properly to the problems, which have been plagued by delays for decades, can say they do not know.
How can we motivate response, and from whom, if we don't know what the obstacles to it are?
Tired of wondering whether refusing to put an end to the problem is motivated by profit, extortion and corruption associated with "political influence".
"Pursuing truth and transparency for public health"
No one in government who is supposed to be responding properly to the problems, which have been plagued by delays for decades, can say they do not know.
How can we motivate response, and from whom, if we don't know what the obstacles to it are?
Tired of wondering whether refusing to put an end to the problem is motivated by profit, extortion and corruption associated with "political influence".
Chlorpyrifos: Pesticide tied to brain damage in children
Posted from usrtk.org
Edited 10 mo ago
Posted 10 mo ago
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There is a water retention damn behind the apartments. Constructed by the ACE and maintained by the water company. I saw them using a herbicide to kill all of the plant growth on the dam. Knowing that the play ground was only feet away and some new neighbors with infant children I called the water company and pointed out that they were endangering the children and they needed to stop what they were doing. They did and to this day remove growth by hand.
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SGT Mary G.
SGT (Join to see) Totally awesome! That is how our system is supposed to work, even though there are a number of variables which complicate the process in some places. Thank you for speaking up about the problem. I think we all should even when we know it may not be well-received.
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SGT Mary G.
SGT (Join to see) - For sure! We used to be able get through to the appropriate person in city government. However, a 311 number was initiated in the Mayor's office, and we are required to call that, which all numbers we used to call are redirected to! The 311 folks fill out a form and narrative about our reason for calling, which we never see, and of course there is never a response. It truly has created untold amounts of dysfunction in the city. There is very little enforcement of any type now, about anything. And people are usually working from home instead of in the office, so going to the office is also useless.
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@sgt Mary Gossage SGT Mary G. yes... very long, but worth the time to read.
..."Trump EPA delays ban
Following the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the proposed chlorpyrifos ban was delayed. In March 2017, in one of his first formal actions as the nation’s top environmental official, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt rejected the petition by environmental groups and said the ban on chlorpyrifos would not go forward.
The Associated Press reported in June 2017 that Pruitt had met with Dow CEO Andrew Liveris 20 days before halting the ban. Media also reported that Dow contributed $1 million to Trump’s inaugural activities.
In February of 2018, EPA reached a settlement requiring Syngenta to pay a $150,000 fine and train farmers in pesticide use after the company failed to warn workers to avoid fields where chlorpyrifos was recently sprayed and several workers who entered the fields were sickened and required medical care. The Obama EPA had initially proposed a fine nearly nine times larger."...
..."Trump EPA delays ban
Following the election of Donald Trump as President of the United States, the proposed chlorpyrifos ban was delayed. In March 2017, in one of his first formal actions as the nation’s top environmental official, EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt rejected the petition by environmental groups and said the ban on chlorpyrifos would not go forward.
The Associated Press reported in June 2017 that Pruitt had met with Dow CEO Andrew Liveris 20 days before halting the ban. Media also reported that Dow contributed $1 million to Trump’s inaugural activities.
In February of 2018, EPA reached a settlement requiring Syngenta to pay a $150,000 fine and train farmers in pesticide use after the company failed to warn workers to avoid fields where chlorpyrifos was recently sprayed and several workers who entered the fields were sickened and required medical care. The Obama EPA had initially proposed a fine nearly nine times larger."...
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