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Related: About this forumDow Chemical Reportedly Pressuring Trump Administration To Kill Study About Harmful Pesticides
WASHINGTON Dow Chemical is pushing the Trump administration to scrap the findings of federal scientists who point to a family of widely used pesticides as harmful to about 1,800 critically threatened or endangered species.
Lawyers representing Dow, whose CEO also heads a White House manufacturing working group, and two other makers of organophosphates sent letters last week to the heads of three Cabinet agencies. The companies asked them "to set aside" the results of government studies the companies contend are fundamentally flawed.
The letters, dated April 13, were obtained by The Associated Press.
Dow Chemical chairman and CEO Andrew Liveris is a close adviser to President Donald Trump. The company wrote a $1 million check to help underwrite Trump's inaugural festivities.
Over the last four years, government scientists have compiled an official record running more than 10,000 pages showing the three pesticides under review chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion pose a risk to nearly every endangered species they studied. Regulators at the three federal agencies, which share responsibilities for enforcing the Endangered Species Act, are close to issuing findings expected to result in new limits on how and where the highly toxic pesticides can be used.
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Dow Chemical Reportedly Pressuring Trump Administration To Kill Study About Harmful Pesticides (Original Post)
tecelote
Apr 2017
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sinkingfeeling
(51,274 posts)1. 45 will try to stop release of the report.
Lyricalinklines
(367 posts)2. Thank you for posting this; I just saw this.
There's much to consider in these studies and we must apply pressure to elected officials to continue them IN UNBIASED MANNER.