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As if Scott Pruitt's multi-million dollar security detail which was implemented on day one wasn't enough, as if his blatant use of taxpayer dollars to fly around the world for his vacations didn't seem bad enough, as if Pruitt's latest assault on science and science-based evidence by throttling any study which dares to contradict his nascent intelligence wasn't the last straw, now comes word Pruitt has banned the release of a study which shows the acceptable level of fluorinated chemicals in drinking water should be six times more strict.
Why would the EPA, the very agency tasked with monitoring and reporting on dangerous environmental hazards, not want this information to come out? Why would it deliberately endanger millions of U.S. citizens?
Because it would make the con artist look bad. No, really. That is the reason you would never have heard about this study unless a FOIA request had done what it is supposed to do. As one criminal in the White House stated:
More than three months later, the draft study remains unpublished, and the HHS unit says it has no scheduled date to release it for public comment. This study was an assessment of a class of toxic chemicals that has contaminated water supplies near military bases, chemical plants and other sites from New York to Michigan to West Virginia.
In a series of emails, discovered under FOIA, members of the cabal talked about different ways to review the study, massage its message and do everything possible to not have it released.
The emails portray a “brazenly political” response to the contamination crisis, said Judith Enck, a former EPA official who dealt with the same pollutants during the Obama administration — saying it goes far beyond a normal debate among scientists.
Enck, the former EPA official, said she sees one troubling gap in the emails: They make “no mention of the people who are exposed to PFOA or PFOS, there’s no health concern expressed here.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/14/emails-white-house-interfered-with-science-study-536950
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/387573-trump-admin-fears-stronger-chemical-regulations-will-be-public
Why would the EPA, the very agency tasked with monitoring and reporting on dangerous environmental hazards, not want this information to come out? Why would it deliberately endanger millions of U.S. citizens?
Because it would make the con artist look bad. No, really. That is the reason you would never have heard about this study unless a FOIA request had done what it is supposed to do. As one criminal in the White House stated:
“The impact to EPA and [the Defense Department] is going to be extremely painful. We (DoD and EPA) cannot seem to get ATSDR to realize the potential public relations nightmare this is going to be.”
More than three months later, the draft study remains unpublished, and the HHS unit says it has no scheduled date to release it for public comment. This study was an assessment of a class of toxic chemicals that has contaminated water supplies near military bases, chemical plants and other sites from New York to Michigan to West Virginia.
In a series of emails, discovered under FOIA, members of the cabal talked about different ways to review the study, massage its message and do everything possible to not have it released.
The emails portray a “brazenly political” response to the contamination crisis, said Judith Enck, a former EPA official who dealt with the same pollutants during the Obama administration — saying it goes far beyond a normal debate among scientists.
Enck, the former EPA official, said she sees one troubling gap in the emails: They make “no mention of the people who are exposed to PFOA or PFOS, there’s no health concern expressed here.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/14/emails-white-house-interfered-with-science-study-536950
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/387573-trump-admin-fears-stronger-chemical-regulations-will-be-public
