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Surveillance Capitalism Is Destroying Our Freedom and Our Intimacy: https://truthout.org/articles/surveillance-capitalism-is-destroying-our-freedom-and-our-intimacy/
Interior Nominee Intervened to Block Report on Endangered Species:
Source: https://forum.arctic-sea-ice.net/index.php/topic,1858.450.html#lastPost reply #495:
“… Fish and Wildlife Service analysis found that two of the pesticides, malathion and chlorpyrifos, were so toxic that they “jeopardize the continued existence” of more than 1,200 endangered birds, fish and other animals and plants, a conclusion that could lead to tighter restrictions on use of the chemicals.
But just before the team planned to make its findings public in November 2017, something unexpected happened: Top political appointees of the Interior Department, which oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service, blocked the release and set in motion a new process intended to apply a much narrower standard to determine the risks from the pesticides.
Leading that intervention was David Bernhardt, then the deputy secretary of the interior and a former lobbyist and oil-industry lawyer. In October 2017, he abruptly summoned staff members to the first of a rapid series of meetings in which the Fish and Wildlife Service was directed to take the new approach, one that pesticide makers and users had lobbied intensively to promote.
Mr. Bernhardt is now President Trump’s nominee to become interior secretary. The Senate is scheduled to hold a hearing on his confirmation Thursday.
… A Dow spokesman said the shift in policy was unrelated to the $1 million contribution to Trump’s inauguration committee. “
Radioactive leaks found at 75% of US nuke sites
“Several notable leaks above the EPA drinking-water limit for tritium happened five or more years ago, and from underground piping: 397,000 picocuries per liter at Tennessee’s Watts Bar unit in 2005 — 20 times the EPA standard; four million at the two-reactor Hatch plant in Georgia in 2003 — 200 times the limit; 750,000 at Seabrook in New Hampshire in 1999 — nearly 38 times the standard; and 4.2 million at the three-unit Palo Verde facility in Arizona, in 1993 — 210 times the drinking-water limit.”
Surveillance Capitalism Is Destroying Our Freedom and Our Intimacy
Interior Nominee Intervened to Block Report on Endangered Species:
“… Fish and Wildlife Service analysis found that two of the pesticides, malathion and chlorpyrifos, were so toxic that they “jeopardize the continued existence” of more than 1,200 endangered birds, fish and other animals and plants, a conclusion that could lead to tighter restrictions on use of the chemicals.
But just before the team planned to make its findings public in November 2017, something unexpected happened: Top political appointees of the Interior Department, which oversees the Fish and Wildlife Service, blocked the release and set in motion a new process intended to apply a much narrower standard to determine the risks from the pesticides.
Leading that intervention was David Bernhardt, then the deputy secretary of the interior and a former lobbyist and oil-industry lawyer. In October 2017, he abruptly summoned staff members to the first of a rapid series of meetings in which the Fish and Wildlife Service was directed to take the new approach, one that pesticide makers and users had lobbied intensively to promote.
Mr. Bernhardt is now President Trump’s nominee to become interior secretary. The Senate is scheduled to hold a hearing on his confirmation Thursday.
… A Dow spokesman said the shift in policy was unrelated to the $1 million contribution to Trump’s inauguration committee. “
For related info: Forum.arctic-sea-ice
Thwaits Glacier (in West Antarctica, considered the world’s most important glacier) melting much faster (and from below) than previously estimated (a huge cavern 1/3 the area of Manhattan has formed in the last 3 years): https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=7322
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