Poison the Swamp! (For $1,000,000 donation from Dow Chemical)

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WASHINGTON — Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration open to scrapping regulations to ignore the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species.

Lawyers representing Dow, whose CEO is a close adviser to Trump, and two other manufacturers of organophosphates sent letters last week to the heads of three of Trump's Cabinet agencies. The companies asked them "to set aside" the results of government studies the companies contend are fundamentally flawed.

Dow Chemical wrote a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump's inaugural festivities, and its chairman and CEO, Andrew Liveris, heads a White House manufacturing working group.

The industry's request comes after EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced last month he was reversing an Obama-era effort to bar the use of Dow's chlorpyrifos pesticide on food after recent peer-reviewed studies found that even tiny levels of exposure could hinder the development of children's brains. In his prior job as Oklahoma's attorney general, Pruitt often aligned himself in legal disputes with the interests of executives and corporations who supported his state campaigns.

No way President Trump allows this to go on. Right? Can I get an "AMEN!"?

 

[aix_xpert]

If you read the article, one of the chemical in question was found in 87% of newborns had exposure to the chemical. Given that 87% of children aren't malformed or even significantly impacted, its hard to believe that this is some massive threat to society. In fact, reading the article, it was clear that the human impact is so negligible that it was basically thrown in the story as an after thought. The story was about the impact to "endangered species", which is the catch-all environmentalist play when they lack any real substance to stand against something. In the end, I don't know whether the EPA will change the rule or not. But don't be a hypocrite and complain that lobbyists want something for their party donations, much like Solyndra and a dozen other green companies (who donated millions to Democratic campaigns) wanted.