The Trump regime has flipped the purpose of the EPA, turning it into an organization whose goal is to erase environmental protections and boost the profits of polluting industries. Earlier this week the EPA went to court to make it easier for power plants to dump toxins in waterways. But even that odious task falls short of the blatant disregard for science, health, and the agency’s mission that the AP is now highlighting.
Dow Chemical is pushing the Trump administration to scrap 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.
The chemicals in question were determined to be antibiotics in the root-sense of the word—against all living things.
The EPA's recent biological evaluation of chlorpyrifos found the pesticide is "likely to adversely affect" 1,778 of the 1,835 animals and plants accessed as part of its study, including critically endangered or threatened species of frogs, fish, birds and mammals.
Now Dow and other manufacturers of these materials have asked the Scott Pruitt EPA to simply “set aside” the results of these studies. Just as it did for a study showing that these same chemicals are also an incredible threat to farm workers. Why would Scott Pruitt so readily agree to put workers, animals, and even plants at risk?
Dow Chemical chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris is a close adviser to President Donald Trump. The company wrote a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump's inaugural festivities.
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