Lawyers have reached a $1.1 billion agreement with DuPont, Chemours, and Corteva over PFAS pollution in the U.S. public water supply and for remediation. https://t.co/bjd6ti2pQK

— NEWSMAX (@NEWSMAX) June 3, 2023

Where’s Greta?

Someone needs to tell that retard that carbon is not an environmental disaster.

She’s an honest person who really cares about the environment, so she will switch to talking about the poisons surrounding us all, that we are breathing and eating, if we can just get the message to her.

The Guardian:

In 1953, a paper developed for cigarette maker RJ Reynolds detailed possible cancer-causing agents in tobacco, but the document would remain hidden from public view for decades. In the interim, the industry told the public: “We don’t accept the idea that there are harmful agents in tobacco.”

The chemical industry, it seemed, took note. Just a few years later, DuPont scientists found PFAS enlarged lab rats’ livers and likely caused birth defects in workers. Still, the company told its employees the cancer-linked compounds are “about as toxic as table salt”.

Like the tobacco industry before it, the chemical industry managed to keep PFAS’s health risks hidden from the public for decades. A new peer-reviewed study dissecting PFAS producers’ public relations strategies provides a smoking gun timeline composed of industry studies and comments from DuPont and 3M officials showing they knew the dangers, but publicly insisted the chemicals were safe.

“The chemical industry used the tactics of the tobacco industry to delay public awareness of the toxicity of PFAS and, in turn, delayed regulations governing their use,” the University of California at San Francisco authors wrote. “PFAS are now ubiquitous in the population and environment.”

PFAS are a class of about 15,000 chemicals often used to make thousands of products resistant to water, stains and heat. The compounds are linked at low levels of exposure to cancer, thyroid disease, kidney dysfunction, birth defects, autoimmune disease and other serious health problems. They are called “forever chemicals” because of their longevity in the environment.

The public largely would not learn of the health threat until the aughts when subpoenaed records in a lawsuit against DuPont revealed the chemicals’ toxicity and industry cover up.

The study used scientific methodology previously developed by tobacco industry researcher Stan Glantz to analyze similar documents from cigarette makers. The authors found PFAS producers and their allies most frequently employed two tobacco strategies: withholding internal studies that revealed health risks and distorting public discourse.

“All these companies … try to prevent the development of public understanding and they’re always years ahead of the public and mainstream scientific community,” Glantz said.

Between 1961 and 2006, the authors identified dozens of instances where DuPont or 3M scientists discovered or acknowledged PFAS toxicity internally, but did not publish the findings or report them to the EPA, as required under federal law.

DuPont’s chief toxicologist in 1961 found rats’ livers enlarged at very low doses of exposure, a health impact recognized as “the most sensitive sign of toxicity.” The report recommended PFAS be handled “with extreme care” and that “contact with the skin should be strictly avoided.”

Around the same time, a DuPont worker died from PFAS inhalation, which the company on multiple occasions dismissed as a rumor. Meanwhile, workers reported an “epidemic” of flu-like symptoms from Teflon exposure.

In 1970, a DuPont-funded lab found PFAS to be “highly toxic when inhaled and moderately toxic when ingested”. About a decade later, the lab killed two dogs with low doses of the chemicals. The lab also observed corneal ulcerations in newborns, and 3M, in a report shared with DuPont, “observed fetus eye changes were due to [PFAS]”.

Here’s a link to a study titled “The Devil they Knew: Chemical Documents Analysis of Industry Influence on PFAS Science.” Please send it to your elected representatives and demand that they do something about it.https://t.co/TGKbBUCsV0 pic.twitter.com/MjiFlhf0Iu

— Fifty Shades of Whey (@davenewworld_2) June 3, 2023

In the early 1980s, DuPont found elevated liver enzymes in 60% of workers tested, and a confidential internal report detailed birth defects among pregnant plant employees. In the years that followed, 3M and DuPont internal studies found the chemicals likely caused prostate, testicular, bladder and kidney cancers.

Virtually none of this information was shared with the public, regulators, or DuPont employees, and none of the research was published in a scientific journal. The motivation, said study co-author Tracey Woodruff, was profits.

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PFAS manufacturers have continued to conceal evidence since the conclusion of the DuPont lawsuit. The Guardian in 2021 revealed how DuPont and Japanese chemical maker Daikin hid evidence of the toxicity of 6:2 FTOH, a “new generation” of an allegedly safe PFAS compound that was approved for use in food packaging in 2009. But the companies’ testing before and after approval showed the chemicals caused kidney failure, liver damage, mammary gland problems, mottled teeth and other issues in lab rats.

It’s unclear how the industry hides today, but “their history makes me think that there’s always something that they aren’t disclosing”, said Maricel Maffini, an independent consultant who blew the whistle on 6:2 FTOH.

In a normal country, you would blame the government for this.

The government’s job is to protect people from other people, and it is people that are putting poisons in the food that other people eat.

The people making these foods are not eating these foods.

They should all be in prison.

Instead…

I can’t believe that multinational corporations would do something immoral.

I was told by Ronald Reagan explicitly that this was impossible.

New York Post:

Babies with birth defects. Lab rats with enlarged livers. Dogs that died soon after exposure.

These and other dangers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, also known as “forever chemicals,” were hidden from the public, regulators and even company employees, even while the makers of products containing PFAS continued to promote their benefits.

A new paper published in the Annals of Global Health highlights the nefarious tactics companies like DuPont and 3M used to cover up the dangers of PFAS chemicals.

The authors of the paper compared the tactics of DuPont and 3M to tobacco companies, which notoriously suppressed medical research that exposed their products’ link to cancer.

For example, as early as 1961, DuPont was aware that chemicals used to create its Teflon cookware coatings were known “to increase the size of the liver of rats at low doses” and that “contact with the skin should be strictly avoided.” This information was purposefully suppressed, according to the paper’s authors.

In 1979, DuPont discovered that dogs exposed to a single dose of perfluorooctanoic acid (a type of PFAS) “died two days after ingestion.” This information was also kept secret by DuPont.

Two pregnant employees who worked with C-8 (another type of PFAS) gave birth to babies with serious defects: One child had a single nostril and the other had eye defects. DuPont never communicated this information to employees.

In fact, the company later released a statement declaring that “we know of no evidence of birth defects caused by C-8 at DuPont.”

PFAS documentsDamning revelations such as these came to light when secret industry documents held for years by DuPont and 3M — the largest makers of PFAS — were examined by health experts at the University of California, San Francisco.

“These documents reveal clear evidence that the chemical industry knew about the dangers of PFAS and failed to let the public, regulators, and even their own employees know,” Tracey J. Woodruff, director of UCSF’s Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment and senior author of the paper, said in a news release.

The industry documents were released to UCSF researchers after attorney Robert Bilott, depicted in the 2019 film “Dark Waters,” gained access to the papers following his lawsuits against DuPont.

As public awareness of PFAS risks increased, DuPont tried to pressure the Environmental Protection Agency into adopting an industry-friendly stance.

In an email to the EPA labeled “Urgent,” DuPont vice president Susan Stalnecker wrote: “We need EPA to quickly (like first thing tomorrow) say the following: That consumer products sold under the Teflon brand are safe and to date there are no human health effects known to be caused by PFOA.”

What are PFAS?PFAS are a group of synthetic chemicals, widely used in packaging, clothing, carpets, firefighting foam and even toilet paper since the 1950s.

Because of the strong molecular bonds found in PFAS, they don’t break down easily, and levels of PFAS build up over time in humans, animals and the environment, earning them the name “forever chemicals.”

PFAS are used in dozens of different industries and are now found in water, soil and in the air all over the world, according to the National Institutes of Health.

And because there are thousands of different types of PFAS, there’s much that scientists don’t know about them, such as how best to detect and measure these minerals, remove them from air and water or determine their long-term effects.

Effects of PFASResearch into the health risks of PFAS is ongoing, but studies conducted to date reveal possible health effects including altered metabolism and fertility, reduced fetal growth, increased risk of being overweight or obese, increased cancer risk and weakened immune systems, according to the NIH.

In 2004, the EPA won a $16.45 million settlement against DuPont for the company’s failure to disclose its internal findings on PFOA. But, the new paper’s authors note, that amount was just a fraction of DuPont’s $1 billion annual revenues from PFOA and C-8.

It really just makes you sick that this is happening and all these stupid women who claim to be “environmentalists” are rallying around that retarded Swedish girl and her convoluted gibberish about the weather.

Unlike an industrial society powered by windmills, a world without PFAS is achievable. The government would just have to make laws. It’s very simple.

Maybe this’ll work? Or maybe it’s too late?

The European Commission is set to authorize the growing of genetically modified maize on European soil, despite 19 member states voting against the move, highlighting the “absurd” rules of weighted votes in the EU.

In a debate on Tuesday, 19 EU member states indicated that they would vote against the authorization of genetically modified maize because of health and environmental concerns and opposition in the European Parliament.

But because of the so-called comitology rules of the EU, their votes will be insufficient to overturn the decision of bigger member states that support the introduction of insect resistant Pioneer 1507.

The UK and Spain are both in favor of GM crops, while Germany abstained and France is staunchly against their introduction.

European health Commissioner Tonio Borg said on Tuesday that the commission is now legally bound to approve the crop. Borg insisted that extensive research since 2001 had shown the crop was safe.

Britain has argued that without GM crops, Europe risks becoming “the museum of world farming,” and that there is a clear scientific case for GM, while Spain has said that its farmers need to be able to compete with non-EU nations that can grow GM produce.

DuPont, which jointly developed Pioneer 1507 with Dow Chemical, said in statement that the EU has a“legal obligation to itself, to its farmers and scientists and to its trade partners” to support the approval of new agricultural advances.

France however warned that if the European Commission goes ahead with the introduction of GM maize, then it risks fuelling further euroscepticism by granting approval in the face of fierce opposition.

“We have a majority against it, so I don’t understand how we can approve this. Even more so ahead of EU elections. This is dangerous to the image of the EU institutions, it will fuel the idea that Europe doesn’t work or works badly,” said Thierry Repentin, the French EU affairs minister.

While Thierry’s Italian colleague called the outcome “indigestible” and his Hungarian counterpart a showcase of the “European absurd”.

The Green group in the European Parliament has said there is now no democratic mandate for giving the green light to GM maize.

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