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New Lawsuit Challenges Trump’s Exemptions for Polluters

https://murica.website/2026/02/new-lawsuit-challenges-trumps-exemptions-for-polluters/

Regulations to restrict use and control exposure to methelyene chloride, carbon tetrachloride both health #hazards and known #carcinogens are under threat from the #deadly #corrupt #toxic #Trump #Republican #GOP #EPA

They don't care how many people suffer and die, as long as the #bribes keep coming in

#Vaping may be causing #irreversible #harm to #children’s #health, doctors say
"experts said they're “extremely concerned” abt harmful effects of #ecigarettes on millions of teenagers & youths, incl'g exposure to toxins & #carcinogens.. raising risk of #addiction & injury to develop'g brains of adolescents.. when children & youth start vap'g, they may become dependent on te nicotine & it can become a gateway to #smoking.. there shld be a #ban on sales of e-cigs worldwide"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/01/vaping-may-be-causing-irreversible-harm-children-health-doctors

#Vaping may be causing #irreversible #harm to #children’s #health, doctors say
"experts said they're “extremely concerned” abt harmful effects of #ecigarettes on millions of teenagers & youths, incl'g exposure to toxins & #carcinogens.. raising risk of #addiction & injury to develop'g brains of adolescents.. when children & youth start vap'g, they may become dependent on te nicotine & it can become a gateway to #smoking.. there shld be a #ban on sales of e-cigs worldwide"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/01/vaping-may-be-causing-irreversible-harm-children-health-doctors

#Vaping may be causing #irreversible #harm to #children’s #health, doctors say
"experts said they're “extremely concerned” abt harmful effects of #ecigarettes on millions of teenagers & youths, incl'g exposure to toxins & #carcinogens.. raising risk of #addiction & injury to develop'g brains of adolescents.. when children & youth start vap'g, they may become dependent on te nicotine & it can become a gateway to #smoking.. there shld be a #ban on sales of e-cigs worldwide"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/01/vaping-may-be-causing-irreversible-harm-children-health-doctors

#Vaping may be causing #irreversible #harm to #children’s #health, doctors say
"experts said they're “extremely concerned” abt harmful effects of #ecigarettes on millions of teenagers & youths, incl'g exposure to toxins & #carcinogens.. raising risk of #addiction & injury to develop'g brains of adolescents.. when children & youth start vap'g, they may become dependent on te nicotine & it can become a gateway to #smoking.. there shld be a #ban on sales of e-cigs worldwide"
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2025/sep/01/vaping-may-be-causing-irreversible-harm-children-health-doctors

And how did we get to this point? Believe it or not, it started with coming up with a substitute for #ivory...

The plastic paradox: How plastics went from elephant saviors to #EcoVillains
Do the benefits of plastics outweigh the costs?

by Ross Pomeroy
January 23, 2024

"It was 1869, and something needed to be done.

"With the price of ivory skyrocketing, billiard ball manufacturers were scrambling for an alternative. The prized material derived from elephant tusks was being used to craft such things as knife handles, piano keys, dice, dominoes, chessmen, and yes, billiard balls. Now, with #elephants growing scarce from overhunting, the wonder material was becoming difficult to procure and unreasonably expensive. After all, one tusk would yield just four or five balls. Leading pool table manufacturer Phelan and Collender offered $10,000 ($225,000 today) to any inventor who could discover a replacement for ivory.

"Albany inventor John Wesley Hyatt answered the call, molding together camphor, nitrocellulose, and alcohol under extreme pressure. His concoction, called celluloid, was one of the first synthetic plastics. While Hyatt’s creation proved an unwieldy material for billiard balls — insufficiently durable and mildly explosive when struck — it inspired others to formulate something better. A few decades later, American chemist Leo Baekeland came up with the petroleum-derived Bakelite. It became the first commercially successful synthetic plastic, and very likely saved elephants from #extinction."

[The article goes on to mention how #plastics and #PFAS are interconnected...]

"According to the authors of the report, plastic additives may be the most pernicious. These substances augment plastics to make them more useful to consumers: stronger, more pliable, less #flammable, non-stick, etc. However, large observational studies and research in lab animals indicate they are harming human health.

"The substances could be increasing cancer rates, reducing birth weights, inhibiting antibody responses to vaccines, raising blood pressure, and contributing to infertility. These compounds include polybrominated diphenyl ethers (#PBDE), phthalates, bisphenol A (#BPA), and per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances (#PFAS).

"Philip J. Landrigan, a professor, pediatrician, and Director of the Program for Global Public Health and the Common Good at Boston College, is the lead author of the Minderoo-Monaco Commission report. He spoke with Big Think about the potential harms of plastic additives.

"Landrigan was a pediatrician during the 1970s, when lead in gasoline, paints, and toys was secretly poisoning children. He says chemicals leaching from plastics constitute a similar threat: As they’re not chemically bound to the plastic matrix, they can easily escape into the environment. #PBDEs, added as #FlameRetardants in furniture and other products, have been found in house dust and are neurotoxic, he says.

“The thousands of chemicals in plastics — #monomers, additives, processing agents, and non-intentionally added substances — include amongst their number known human #carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, #neurotoxicants, and persistent organic #pollutants,' Landrigan and his fellow authors wrote in the report.

"Given these negative effects, it may seem as if plastic is a fire-breathing dragon. While it began as an ally, it has now turned against us. If we don’t get the dragon back under control, it could spell our downfall.

"To respond to threats from plastics, the experts on the Minderoo-Monaco Commission called for a #GlobalPlasticsTreaty comparable to the Paris Climate Agreement to combat climate change. As part of the treaty, they insist that a 'cap on global plastic production with targets, timetables, and national contributions' is needed. Global plastic use is estimated to nearly triple by 2060."

Read more:
https://bigthink.com/the-present/plastics-costs-benefits-paradox/?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#Crapitalism #BanPlastics
#WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #PlasticRain

How Safe Is Your Scented #Shampoo? Finding Out Can Be Hard
Data collected by the #California Department of #PublicHealth showed 108 potentially harmful substances listed as #fragrance ingredients in everyday products ranging from face wash to #conditioner, a Bloomberg analysis of database entries as of Feb. 6 found. Some of the compounds are identified as potential #carcinogens by authorities such as the #WHO.
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-health-fragrance-ingredients-personal-care-products/?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxMjk1NDU3NywiZXhwIjoxNzEzNTU5Mzc3LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTQlRRRzdUMEcxS1cwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiIzRDhGMEEzMTc2MDc0NUM5OTg4NkFCNzA1NDk2RUNEQSJ9.cFXiUkaV_aNuyJvEVQuED0-rhws-UJ3fP7jKy4kMwYA

#Farmers Deceived About #Sewage #Sludge Safety

April 2, 2010

"On March 27th [2010] Citizens for Sludge-Free Land sent a letter to the #Virginia Department of Environmental Quality and US #EPA Region 3 that information provided to Virginia landowners about using sewage sludges as #fertilizer is deceptive. Land application permits are being granted in several Virginia counties without informing farmers of the serious risks associated with this practice. The VA code specifies, that to be valid, these permits can only be granted with the #InformedConsent of the landowner.

"The Federal #CleanWater Act defines sewage sludge as a #pollutant. Most of the pollutants that sewage treatment plants remove from wastewater concentrate in the resulting sludge. Exempt from #hazardous and solid waste laws, sludge is being spread on #agricultural land, despite mounting scientific evidence and field reports that using this contaminated waste as a cheap fertilizer is neither safe, beneficial, nor sustainable.

"The Virginia Cooperative Extension Service as well as Nutri-Blend Inc., the company that needs permits to spread sludge, are failing to provide landowners with the necessary facts, so they can make an informed decision whether or not to treat their land with sludge. The widely distributed Extension Service biosolids fact sheets-- although deceptively dated May 9, 2009-- provide out-dated, inaccurate, incomplete, and in some cases, misleading information. They overstate the alleged benefits and totally ignore the known risks and recent documented evidence of adverse health and #environmental impacts linked to sludge use. The fact sheets and brochures give the illusion that land applying sewage sludge, a complex and variable mixture of #HumanWaste and thousands of industrial #chemicals, many of which are #toxic and persistent, is a safe and normal agricultural practice.

"The information provided to landowners deceptively downplays the health risks of exposure to odors, odorant compounds, endotoxins, bacteria-laden dusts, and toxic gases at land application sites that can cause severe and permanent #lung damage. Nor are farmers told that typical sludges generated in industrialized urban areas contain not only pathogens, but also #PCBs, #dioxins, #carcinogens, #pharmaceuticals, flame retardants [#PFAS], and hormone disrupting chemicals that can damage developing organisms in parts per trillion. Many of these pollutants do not break down once they are applied to land. Worse, partial breakdown products are often more toxic than the parent material. Yet federal regulations require testing and standards for only nine toxic metals. Perhaps most important, the information provided to farmers fails to disclose that the National Academies of Science has indicated that while there are serious health concerns associated with many of the constituents of sewage sludge, there is too much uncertainty to scientifically predict the true health and environmental risks, when this complex waste mixture is applied to land.

"Finally, farmers are not told that sludge-exposure has been linked to illnesses, human deaths, livestock mortalities, groundwater pollution, and permanently degraded land. Unless there is a true and accurate disclosure of all the risks associated with this practice, there can be no true consent.

"Without informed consent, the state should not be issuing permits."

Link to archived web page (TY @internetarchive!):
https://web.archive.org/web/20221227022631/https://organicconsumers.org/press/farmers-deceived-about-sewage-sludge-safety

#PFOS #ChemicalIndustries #ToxicWaste #WaterIsLife #ForeverChemicals