Dow Chemical is pushing a Trump administration that’s open to scrapping regulations to ignore 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.
Lawyers representing Dow, whose CEO is a close adviser to President Donald Trump, and two other manufacturers of organophosphates sent letters last week to the heads of three of Trump’s Cabinet agencies. The companies asked them “to set aside” the results of government studies the companies contend are fundamentally flawed.
Dow Chemical wrote a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump’s inaugural festivities, and its chairman and CEO, Andrew Liveris, heads a White House manufacturing working group.
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Shameless.
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Disgusting!
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Remember, that chemical company quote, “better living through chemistry,” just change the first two words to “worse dying….”
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Apropos.
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Basically, the government of tRump is out to screw the country with his billionaire friends
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… and without lubrication.
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Yes, non consensual
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Fuck.
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That’s what we’re getting, alright.
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What a mad, mad, mad world we live in!
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Yes Ros, and getting madder by the day.
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