Don't trust the Farm Press?
Posted on 09/23/2011 12:34:09 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Obama Administration to Ban Asthma Inhalers Over Environmental Concerns 3:00 PM, Sep 23, 2011 • By MARK HEMINGWAY Single Page Print Larger Text Smaller Text Alerts
Remember how Obama recently waived new ozone regulations at the EPA because they were too costly? Well, it seems that the Obama administration is would rather make people with Asthma cough up money than let them make a surely inconsequential contribution to depleting the ozone layer:
Asthma patients who rely on over-the-counter inhalers will need to switch to prescription-only alternatives as part of the federal government's latest attempt to protect the Earth's atmosphere.
The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday patients who use the epinephrine inhalers to treat mild asthma will need to switch by Dec. 31 to other types that do not contain chlorofluorocarbons, an aerosol substance once found in a variety of spray products.
The action is part of an agreement signed by the U.S. and other nations to stop using substances that deplete the ozone layer, a region in the atmosphere that helps block harmful ultraviolet rays from the Sun.
But the switch to a greener inhaler will cost consumers more. Epinephrine inhalers are available via online retailers for around $20, whereas the alternatives, which contain the drug albuterol, range from $30 to $60.
The Atlantic's Megan McArdle, an asthma sufferer, noted a while back that when consumers are forced to deal with environmentally friendly products they're are almost always worse:
This has to be a final straw of some sort for the EPA...
Bush FDA 2008 ruling outlaws CFC inhalers
Also, did you hear Herman Cain say that the EPA was going to regulate dust?
Yes, that's a Bush 2006 EPA ruling.
Bush, Obama, in many ways we get shafted by both parties. Oh yeah, Romney is next in line, keeping bureaucratic tyranny thriving.
I thought you were joking about dust then saw another post.
Well you are corret. The EPA has been regulating dust since 1987 and is now ‘tightening’ the regulations.
EPA on Tightening Dust regulations:
http://www.epa.gov/region9/air/phoenixpm/fuss.html
EPA on gravel roads and dust:
http://epa.gov/owow/NPS/gravelroads/sec4.pdf
EPA tightening 1987 dust regulations:
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=4385
The EPA has been regulating dust since 1987.
Cain on EPA tightening 1987 standards:
http://wmbriggs.com/blog/?p=4385
EPA on Tightening Dust regulations:
http://www.epa.gov/region9/air/phoenixpm/fuss.html
EPA on gravel roads and dust:
http://epa.gov/owow/NPS/gravelroads/sec4.pdf
Also let me say this inhalers which have this drug in there if used improperly can cause heart racing. I know I us inhalers! When I first started on them by doctors orders it caused my heart to race until my body became used to the drug!
This needs to be used in ads against this administration and for that matter the Democrats on a whole should be tarred with it. This is unbelievably stupid and obtrusive.
All druggists, Doctors, patients should ignore this new grab for power until it is court tested for constitutionality - looks pretty unconstitutional to me.............I wonder who will bring the first law suit because some member of their family died because they couldn’t breath without their over-the-counter inhaler................
Both from the same source, Satan. The man must be demon possessed.
verse:
Jhn 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly.
context:
Jhn 10:8 All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.
Jhn 10:9 I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.
Jhn 10:10 The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have [it] more abundantly.
Jhn 10:11 I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.
Jhn 10:12 But he that is an hireling, and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth: and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep.
Jhn 10:13 The hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep.
Jhn 10:14 I am the good shepherd, and know my [sheep], and am known of mine.
That may be an old web page. It says "new regulation" but uses 1999 as a future date. It's not clear to me where Cain got his information.
Lisa Jackson, EPA head, is an enviro-koolaid drinker (but who in the Obama Regime isn't, and she may not be the worst.) She testified before congress in May 2011 LINK:"Another mischaracterization is the claim that EPA is attempting to expand regulation of dust from farms. We have no plans to do so, but let me be clear, the Clean Air Act passed by Congress mandates that the Agency routinely review the science of various pollutants, including Particulate Matter, which is directly responsible for heart attacks and premature deaths. EPA’s independent science panel is currently reviewing that science, and at my direction EPA staff is conducting meetings to engage with and listen to farmers and ranchers well before we even propose any rule."
Is she an honest Leftist, or a lying one like Obama himself? She says they have "no plans" to "expand" those regs.
1) If we claim that the EPA will "tighten" dust regs in 2012 and they don't, does that reinforce the false claim that we are all ignorant yahoos?
2) The current "dust regs" are bad enough, and I am glad some members of congress are trying to reform them. Should we trust the EPA to do the right thing? Hell no. If you show me an example of dust pollution so bad that people can't breathe, do we really need and EPA for that, or is there some other law which would apply?
3) I would be happy if we could replace the EPA with a new agency that concerned itself with real pollution (like the toxic stuff that used to come from big smokestacks in the 1970s and fell on residential neightborhoods), but I don't want to put too much faith in human nature. Many voters say they want jobs but vote for those who destroy them.
Take the blue pill or the red pill, but don’t use that inhaler!
Do you have a better link to Lisa Jackson’s testimony?
thanks
Don't trust the Farm Press?
found it. also found some other interesting stuff. will post later.
your original link was not sending me back to your post.
Oops, should have been http://westernfarmpress.com/government/epas-jackson-testifies-drift-dairy-and-dust
Wrong reason, but I'm glad it's off the market. If it was a better drug, I suspect it would be reformulated the way the albuterol inhalers were (CFC propellant changed to HFA). The manufacturers didn't reformulate, probably because they know the time is up for this as a treatment for asthma.
Wait till you see what’s on his agenda for the elderly/seniors. Remember, this is the same guy that regrets not voting to kill Terri Shiavo ‘sooner’ than he did. The same guy that was the ONLY Democrat that voted (twice) against giving medical care to live, fully formed HUMAN infants in botched abortions, which meant, essentially, that live infants would be left to die in medical wastebins/trashcans.
Know who (and what) you’re dealing with here. Obama is inhuman. Or maybe just anti-human.
Don’t bet on it. After all, as far as I’m concerned, he’s a Muslim. Still in the closet, but a Muslim sypathizer out of the closet. And Muslims view females as less valuable than livestock.
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