This year, state rep. Sherri Gallick (R) introduced a bill to ban paraquat in Missouri.
Thousands of people are suing Syngenta after they or their family members developed debilitating Parkinson's disease symptoms. From @stlpublicradio.bsky.social
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"Safe facilities save jobs, and save lives. We implore you not to rollback modest improvements on chemical safety regulations. "
"It is our members who get hit first and worst by chemical disasters." James of Savage of USW "No one knows better than @steelworkers that safety regulations are written in the blood of the workers killed and maimed in preventable accidents on the job."
Nurses with @envirn.bsky.social stress that 1 in 3 children in the U.S. live in the vulnerability zone for a chemical disaster.
EPA's proposal undoes protections that would require facilities to evaluate safer alternatives, plan for extreme weather, and involve workers in disaster prevention.
Representatives from the American Chemistry Council and American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers Association are speaking in support of rollbacks and people on zoom are replying with emojis of money bags. 💰
"Our public health is not a regulatory burden." Ana Parras, @tejasbarrios.bsky.social
"Decades ago, people in my community called for:
Requiring implementation of safer alternatives
Conducting independent safety audits after every single incident
Treating workers as key prevention partners.
This proposal takes a big step back on all of these measures." Maya Nye, Coming Clean
Thousands of children live and go to school in the worst-case scenario zones for chemical disasters. And kids are more vulnerable to the impacts of air pollution. @momscleanairforce.org
"I lived through explosions that made me sick in my home, and sheltered-in-place more times that I care to remember." said Maya Nye of Coming Clean.
"Decades ago, people in my community called for:
Requiring implementation of safer alternatives
Conducting independent safety audits after every single incident
Treating workers as key prevention partners.
This proposal takes a big step back on all of these measures."
"I can't condense twenty years of advocacy into three minutes." said Nalleli Hidalgo of @tejasbarrios.bsky.social "The RMP was already finalized with community recommendations, and this rollback continues a cycle of chemical abuse."
"Our EJHA affiliate Dr. Henry Clark can't be here today because he literally died waiting for chemical disaster protections."
"One chemical disaster is too many"
@dminovi.bsky.social of @ucs.org urged EPA to require RMP facilities to consider and document safer alternatives, conduct third-party safety audits after reporting an accident, and to plan for extreme weather.
#preventchemicaldisasters
"Workers are the first line of defense when it comes to risk management," said Harley Stokes of @bluegreenalliance.bsky.social
Stripping away stop work authority will mean that the people most knowledgeable about chemical disasters & most vulnerable to them -will have less power to stop them.
The Trump administration is slowly dismantling the federal disaster management system that protects the nation from chemical catastrophes, such as fires and explosions at high-risk facilities. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
The White House is trying to gut the Risk Management Program (RMP) that oversees 12,000 of the most hazardous facilities in the country.
More than 50% of U.S. residents live in a worst-case-scenario chemical disaster zone for these RMP facilities. (2/🧵)
TODAY: Communities will speak out against EPA's proposal to weaken regulations for the nation's most hazardous facilities.
@EPA uses the word "burden" in its proposed rule 73 times. Every time it's about industry. What about burdens to people?
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The petrochemical boom is driving cities to the brink.
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ALERT-TRUMP BETRAYS AMERICANS AGAIN: The Trump admin has shown us again that it doesn't value people's health or lives. They've proposed guting safeguards that protect communities from chemical accidents-all to boost chemical company profits @stoptoxics.bsky.social: capitalbnews.org/epa-safety-r...
It's common sense: all of us deserve to be protected from chemical disasters. But Trump's EPA plans to roll back the Risk Management Program (RMP) putting corporate polluters ahead of its obligation to protect workers & families. Let them know enough is enough. Register at https://bit.ly/RMPhearing
“For fenceline communities and facility workers, this rollback is a declaration that our lives are deemed acceptable sacrifices,” said Ana Parras of @tejasbarrios.bsky.social
New from @adamlmahoney.bsky.social
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8/ It's yet another example of how dismantling EPA’s independent research paves the way for deregulation that harms our health. EPA has rolled back limits for PFAS in drinking water at the same time they're cancelling millions of dollars in grants for research on the health effects of PFAS exposure.
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🆕 Update — #FarmBill reported out of the #House #AgCommittee early this morning #strips environmental and #publichealth #protections from #pesticides, reversing 90+ years of environmental laws adopted by #Congress to protect #farmers, consumers, and the #environment! ⚠️ #markup 🔗 ➡️ ow.ly/HPy850YpLL7
Last week, the EPA pushed the greenhouse gas emissions reporting deadline from March 31 to Oct. 30, saying it expects to finalize a proposal by then to eliminate the reporting requirement altogether. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...
"The voices of the Parkinson’s community, the voices of those who’ve been highlighting the toxic effects of this weed killer … are being heard and they’re having impact,” said Dr. Ray Dorsey.
Syngenta says it will stop making paraquat. ⤵️
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This proposal makes it easier for toxic chemicals to enter our food, water, homes, and schools. Chemical safety protections help prevent cancer, infertility, learning disabilities, & other harms linked to toxic exposures. Congress should protect families and communities, not polluters.
🗣️ “...it is important that the #FarmBill not be used to prop up the chemical industry, but instead supports #organic agriculture that will not threaten vulnerable populations and the ecosystems that support life,” says Jay Feldman, ED at @beyondpesticides.org. #DailyNews ➡️ Blog: ow.ly/e2Oi50Yo49j
The comment period is open. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...
RMP facilities could also be let off the hook for having to conduct third-party safety audits after reporting a single accident.
That's not "common sense" -it's an irrational concession to industry at the expense of public health.
EPA proposed eliminating explicit requirements for RMP facilities to plan for extreme weather. Our analysis shows that facilities like ExxonMobil Baytown are failing to consider hurricane risks now. It could face 9 ft floods in a Cat 4 or 5 hurricane a/t NOAA.
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