" Activists have accused the Trump administration of backing the interests of DowDuPont, a chlorpyrifos manufacturer whose predecessor donated to the president.
The US banned chlorpyrifos for residential use back in 2001. An expert panel of toxicologists last year recommended a ban on all organophosphates, the class of pesticides that includes chlorpyrifos."
But don’t worry. Trump’s EPA is gonna make this chemical legal in every other state. So if you have children or a pregnant wife then the brain damage is easier to get in those States.
It’s always money above everything with this president.
There are a ton of environmental poisons that the other 49 States have to worry about that California doesn’t. That has to be somewhat comforting to parents
Is brain cancer for kids that’s link to a certain chemical really all that bad to politicians like Trump? I mean companies are making money off of it. Isn’t that the important part?
I guarantee that some Republican children will be affected.
It is now 15.3 per 100,000 children per year or about 1 in 300 children getting cancer from birth to adulthood.
That would mean it was in 1975 about 12.5 per hundred thousand per year and 1 in 400 from birth to adulthood.
Rough numbers, but from 1 in 400 in 1975 to 1 in 300 currently, from birth to adulthood. That’s a lot of sick kids. I would be absolutely floored if chemicals have nothing to do with that.
People are exposed to low levels of pesticides every day. You can be exposed to pesticides in a variety of places including your home, at school, or at work. Pesticides can get inside your body from eating, drinking, breathing them in, and by skin contact.
Different pesticides affect human health in different ways. A wide range of health effects, acute and chronic, are associated with exposures to some pesticides. For example, some pesticides may affect the nervous system, while others may irritate the skin or eyes. Some pesticides may cause cancer and others may affect the endocrine system. The health risks from pesticide exposure depend on the toxicity of the pesticides, the amount a person is exposed to, and the duration and the route of exposure. Evidence suggests that children are at greater risk of illness or injury from exposure to pesticides in general, including effects on brain development.