Posted on 04/18/2020 10:26:26 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Trump White House has intervened to weaken one of the few public health protections pursued by its own administration, a rule to limit the use of a toxic industrial compound in consumer products, according to communications between the White House and Environmental Protection Agency.
The documents show that the White House Office of Management and Budget formally notified the EPA by email last July that it was stepping into the crafting of the rule on the compound, perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances, used in nonstick and stain-resistant frying pans, rugs, and countless other consumer products.
The White House repeatedly pressed the agency to agree to a major loophole that could allow substantial imports of the PFAS-tainted products to continue, greatly weakening the proposed rule. EPA pushed back on the White House demand for the loophole, known as a “safe harbor” provision for industry.
Pushed again in January, the agency responded, “EPA opposes proposing a safe harbor provision, but is open to a neutrally-worded request for comment from the public” on the White House request.
The rule is one of the few concrete steps that the Trump administration has taken to deal with growing contamination by PFAS industrial compounds. The EPA has declared dating back to 2018 that consumer exposure to the substances was a “national priority” that the agency was confronting “aggressively.” …
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Thank goodness
Nice try, media.
We’re onto you big time.
Shove it up your collective, fetid and undoubtedly well used Obamaholes.
When you’re done, do it again.
I’m surprised the AP Headlines didn’t read :
“Donald goes Godzilla on everything that is decent in America- doesn’t want people to be safe- repeals protection laws put in place by Saint barak”
Good. Let’s hope Trump follows through and COMPLETELY DISSOLVES the utterly unconstitutional EPA along the 80% of the federal alphabet-soup agencies and bureaucracies that are unconstitutional .
Lose the ban on DDT.
I can get behind that.
80% of her tweets are hits on Trump and his administration.
Wish enough of us would to make it happen and restore our Free Constitutional Republic. Right now all we’re doing is treading water while the Left keeps deepening the Swamp. We need to do better than that.
We should ban EVERYTHING from china.
We don’t need this nasty crap.
That said, just label it what it is.
AP never disappoints. They just pulled ahead in their race with Reuters for worst BS in news services.
AP never disappoints. They just pulled ahead in their race with Reuters for worst BS in news services.
PFOA is everywhere already.
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