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womanofthehills

(8,579 posts)
Mon May 15, 2017, 12:39 PM May 2017

Trump's EPA Greenlights a Nasty Chemical. A Month Later, It Poisons a Bunch of Farmworkers.

"Anybody that was exposed, we encourage them to seek medical attention immediately," a California public health official stated.

On May 5, more than 50 farmworkers outside of Bakersfield, California, were exposed to a highly toxic pesticide that apparently drifted from a nearby field—at a high enough level that "twelve people reported symptoms of vomiting [and] nausea and one person fainted," reports the television news station Kern Golden Empire. "An additional twelve workers did not show signs of any symptoms," the station reported. "However more than half of the farm workers left before medical aide arrived."

Public health authorities took the poisoning quite seriously. "Anybody that was exposed, that was here today, we encourage them to seek medical attention immediately. Don't wait. Particularly if you're suffering from any symptoms. Whether it's nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, seek medical attention immediately," Michelle Corson, public relations officer at Kern County Public Health, said in an announcement to the TV station.


http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2017/05/california-farm-workers-just-got-poisoned-nasty-pesticide-greenlghted-trump
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Trump's EPA Greenlights a Nasty Chemical. A Month Later, It Poisons a Bunch of Farmworkers. (Original Post) womanofthehills May 2017 OP
Why wasn't it banned in the first place? jberryhill May 2017 #1
Did you bother to read the article? Kingofalldems May 2017 #3
Yes, I did read the article jberryhill May 2017 #6
So Trump is completely blameless? Kingofalldems May 2017 #8
I don't see how you could reach that conclusion for what I wrote jberryhill May 2017 #9
Trump greenlighted it. Fact. Kingofalldems May 2017 #10
Yes, in other words, didn't change the status quo jberryhill May 2017 #11
More than half the farm workers left- fear of deportment after being poisoned. bettyellen May 2017 #2
Lawsuits against Trump should now follow Doodley May 2017 #4
Zippy can have his workers but only if Trump gets to poison them. Solly Mack May 2017 #5
Trump's Admin rolls the dice on dangers to the workplace. We'll see oasis May 2017 #7
 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
1. Why wasn't it banned in the first place?
Mon May 15, 2017, 12:51 PM
May 2017


"Many public health experts, scientists, and environmentalists have for years been pushing for a ban on chlorpyrifos, and last year it was looking like the Environmental Protection Agency intended to instate one."

Kingofalldems

(38,360 posts)
3. Did you bother to read the article?
Mon May 15, 2017, 12:54 PM
May 2017

The EPA intended to ban the chemical until Trump took over.

Too much man. Wow.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
6. Yes, I did read the article
Mon May 15, 2017, 12:58 PM
May 2017

The "intended to" links to a blank page. Or did you not bother to follow the links in the article?

So they "intended to". Why didn't they? Had it been safe for the previous eight years?

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
9. I don't see how you could reach that conclusion for what I wrote
Mon May 15, 2017, 01:03 PM
May 2017

You asked me if I had read the article, which states the EPA "intended to" ban it last year, but... what? Forgot? Lost track? Didn't get around to it?

The chemical wasn't banned before, and it isn't banned now. In that respect, what has changed?

Yeah, I agree, good luck getting any actual science out of the EPA now, but this particular chemical was not acted upon in all the years that complaints have been made.

 

jberryhill

(62,444 posts)
11. Yes, in other words, didn't change the status quo
Mon May 15, 2017, 01:05 PM
May 2017

"Greenlighted" makes it seem as if it has been newly approved.

This shit has been harming people for years. The EPA has not taken action on it for years.

oasis

(49,150 posts)
7. Trump's Admin rolls the dice on dangers to the workplace. We'll see
Mon May 15, 2017, 01:01 PM
May 2017

many more repercussions of deregulation in the upcoming years.

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