Trump Doesn't Want You To Know How Toxic Your Neighborhood May Be

[douglas9]

Former President Ronald Reagan enshrined in law the public’s right to know what dangerous chemicals are in our communities. But Trump Republicans have killed off an online mapping tool that lets us easily do that.

ToxMap, a feature of the National Library of Medicine, which bills itself as “an international leader in health informatics research and development,” went dark Monday.

“Our National Library of Medicine has now joined this administration’s ideologically-driven anti-science crusade, effectively shrinking the public’s access to environmental as well as disease and mortality data,” wrote Chris Sellers, a professor of environmental history and politics at Stony Brook University in New York.

https://www.dcreport.org/2019/12/19/trump-administration-doesnt-want-you-to-know-how-dangerous-your-neighborhood-may-be/

[Mike 03]

1. Speaks volumes.

Kick and recommend.

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[bobbieinok]

3. In EastGermany you'd get thrown in jail for asking about pollutants in your area

In 91 my teachers of German study group was told this by several inhabitants of the former East Germany at different panel discussions about life in the former East Germany

[bobbieinok]

4. People asking for health info about people living certain areas were especially targeted, we were to

---we were told