Trump’s EPA and his hand picked minions are obviously content to put many lives at risk as they go along their predetermined path of environmental and public health destruction. Outrageously the EPA conducted and finished a study on the health effects of the chemical Formaldehyde last fall. In 2017. The finding was that there is a direct correlation between breathing in formaldehyde and developing Leukemia. After finishing a study the EPA then sends its findings to the National Academies of Sciences for further review. Then the EPA issues binding restrictions on the use of formaldehyde, forcing manufacturers of furniture, insulation, adhesives, make-up and fabrics to find alternative ways to produce their products.
Deliberately holding up the release of the study puts many lives at risk. Of course, they don’t care about the health of the public. They care about the profits of manufacturers. Period. The EPA is not interested in protection, just profit.
Welcome to Trump’s America.
Formaldehyde causes cancer. The EPA doesn’t want to acknowledge it. The Trump administration is reportedly suppressing a report about the chemical’s health harms.
Trump administration officials at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are reportedly suppressing a highly anticipated report that would warn Americans about the cancer risks that come with one of the most common chemicals in our environment.
The draft risk assessment, from the EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System, is expected to show that ingesting formaldehyde — breathing it in through car and furniture emissions, or slathering it on our skin via cosmetics — can cause leukemia and nose and throat cancers. The report was completed last fall, and slated to move on to the National Academies of Science for external peer review.
So, the study was finished LAST FALL. It shows that breathing in formaldehyde, which we all do, causes several forms of deadly cancers. The creeps in Trump’s EPA are hiding the findings, because of course they do.
In January Pruitt had an exchange with Ed Markey in a Senate hearing, acknowledging that the study has been completed and was ready for review by the National Academies of Sciences.
The EPA Is Hiding Proof That a Widely Used Chemical Causes Leukemia: Report
During a Senate hearing in late January, Ed Markey asked then-EPA director Scott Pruitt about a little rumor that he’d overheard. “It’s my understanding,” the Massachusetts senator said, “that the EPA has finalized its conclusion that formaldehyde causes leukemia and other cancers and that [the] completed new assessment is ready to be released for public review, but is being held up.”
“You know, my understanding is similar to yours,” Pruitt replied.
Ah, the study was finished in fall of 2017 and here we are in January 2018 and the report has not been sent to the NAS for further review and then action by the EPA. Why the delay? What gives?
Pruitt promised to follow up on the matter — but never did.
Already unduly delayed in January of this year we are now 6 months later with no action whatsoever. WHY?
We now know why. The Politico has the goods on that:
Politico: Sources: EPA blocks warnings on cancer-causing chemical
Burying the formaldehyde study is part of an effort by Pruitt and aides to undermine EPA's research program, current and former officials tell POLITICO.
The Trump administration is suppressing an Environmental Protection Agency report that warns that most Americans inhale enough formaldehyde vapor in the course of daily life to put them at risk of developing leukemia and other ailments, a current and a former agency official told POLITICO.
The warnings are contained in a draft health assessment EPA scientists completed just before Donald Trump became president, according to the officials. They said top advisers to departing Administrator Scott Pruitt are delaying its release as part of a campaign to undermine the agency’s independent research into the health risks of toxic chemicals.
Outrageous. We are being poisoned by formaldehyde in many, many of our products, enough on a daily basis to put us at major health risk, and they spent almost a year suppressing the evidence to protect the profits of the industries the EPA is supposed to protect us against.
Andrew Wheeler, the No. 2 official at EPA who will be the agency's new acting chief as of Monday, also has a history with the chemical. He was staff director for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2004, when his boss, then-Chairman Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), sought to delay an earlier iteration of the formaldehyde assessment.
So, Wheeler was the Formaldehyde report suppressor-in-chief even before taking over as the head of the EPA. GREAT. The fox guarding the hen house. He is just going to continue the delay tactic.
The current official and former official requested anonymity out of fear for their jobs and the impact that speaking out could have on the IRIS program.
Interfering with the formaldehyde study is one of several steps Trump's EPA has taken to side with the businesses the agency is supposed to regulate and undermine the agency's approach to science, critics say. Public health advocates also expressed alarm after Pruitt replaced academic scientists with industry advocates on the agency’s influential science advisory boards and sought to limit the types of human health research the EPA can rely on in rule makings.
For their part, the EPA is denying that they are holding up the release of the study. They claim that the study isn’t finished yet. That obviously contradicts what Pruitt stated himself in January. According to the report EPA officials are playing a game of telephone, where the study is shuffled around within the agency and just sits there until it is shuffled around again, and so on.
“If the administration was really keen on protecting public health, why wouldn’t they send this to the National Academy and give it a really good review?” the former EPA official asked. “If it survives that review, then there’s a public health problem that needs to be dealt with, and if it doesn’t survive the review, then they can point the finger at IRIS and say, ‘You’re dead.’”
The former official said there would be only one reason not to ask the country’s top experts whether they agree with the analysis: “You don’t want the answer.”
This callous disregard for the public’s health has to become a major factor in the upcoming election. This isn’t just major disregard for the public welfare and health, and it not just putting lives at risk at an alarming level of contempt, but the way the EPA has been dealing with this important health finding is nothing short of serving as Exhibit A that the Trump administration and Trump’s hand picked cabinet members are massively corrupt.
Click HERE to see some of the Formaldehyde sources we all have around the house or apartment.