Republicans fight to hide chemical industry is killing Americans

[Stephanie]

Dems are "God's partners in matters of life and death" so of course we're correct to defer to them in these matters

well of course they are, and we now have a Democrat Messiah as President, so we must ACCEPT anything he and his comrades in arms says.

According to the white wing, Katrina happened because Gawd wanted to stop the Gay Pride Parade in New Orleans. You would think Republicans, the party of Jesus, would want to help out straight people who weren't marching but who had their homes destroyed by a Category 4 hurricane sent by Gawd. Guess not.

 

[uscitizen]

Don't do anything!

Don't touch anything!

Don't Eat Anything!!

Don't drink anything!

Don't even breath until you get an "All Clear" from your Government!

Yell and scream all you want asshole, there is NO excuse for Vitter and Inhofe's disregard for the health and well being of their constituents.



It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke

there is a reason for Vitters actions. Money.

 

[rdean]

well of course they are, and we now have a Democrat Messiah as President, so we must ACCEPT anything he and his comrades in arms says.

According to the white wing, Katrina happened because Gawd wanted to stop the Gay Pride Parade in New Orleans. You would think Republicans, the party of Jesus, would want to help out straight people who weren't marching but who had their homes destroyed by a Category 4 hurricane sent by Gawd. Guess not.

Think Progress Hagee Says Hurricane Katrina Struck New Orleans Because It Was ‘Planning A Sinful’ ‘Homosexual Rally’

On September 18, 2006, Pastor John Hagee — whose endorsement Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said this past Sunday he was “glad to have” — told NPR’s Terry Gross that “Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.” “New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God,” Hagee said, because “there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came.”

I know. Sometimes being right is hard for me too. Only, it's a different kind of "right". It's the kind that uses facts.

 

[Wry Catcher]

good gawd are liberals a bunch of pussies.

and don't forget, EVERYtHING WRONG IN THE COUNTRY TODAY, is the fault of a Republican.

OMG, Stephanie finally got something correct. I guess it's true, give enough monkey's enough key boards...

 

[Stephanie]

According to the white wing, Katrina happened because Gawd wanted to stop the Gay Pride Parade in New Orleans. You would think Republicans, the party of Jesus, would want to help out straight people who weren't marching but who had their homes destroyed by a Category 4 hurricane sent by Gawd. Guess not.

Think Progress Hagee Says Hurricane Katrina Struck New Orleans Because It Was ‘Planning A Sinful’ ‘Homosexual Rally’

On September 18, 2006, Pastor John Hagee — whose endorsement Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) said this past Sunday he was “glad to have” — told NPR’s Terry Gross that “Hurricane Katrina was, in fact, the judgment of God against the city of New Orleans.” “New Orleans had a level of sin that was offensive to God,” Hagee said, because “there was to be a homosexual parade there on the Monday that the Katrina came.”

I know. Sometimes being right is hard for me too. Only, it's a different kind of "right". It's the kind that uses facts.

lol, now I see where you get your goofy talking points from. THINKPROGRESS. omfriggengawd.
how bout dailykos, hufferpost and lets not forget the biggest Democrat-commie propaganda site on the Internet. MediaMatters.

 

[uscitizen]

So none of that post about MCcain and Hagee was true?

 

[gslack]

How Senator Vitter Battled the EPA Over Formaldehyde’s Link to Cancer

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has pushed the EPA to slow its process of updating its 20-year-old health assessment of formaldehyde. After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of his state's residents said they suffered respiratory problems after being housed in government trailers contaminated with formaldehyde. (Left: A child looks out of a FEMA trailer in Port Sulphur, La. May 2008 photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

When Sen. David Vitter persuaded the EPA to agree to yet another review of its long-delayed assessment of the health risks of formaldehyde, he was praised by companies that use or manufacture a chemical found in everything from plywood to carpet.

As long as the studies continue, the EPA will still list formaldehyde as a "probable" rather than a "known" carcinogen, even though three major scientific reviews now link it to leukemia and have strengthened its ties to other forms of cancer. The chemical industry is fighting to avoid that designation, because it could lead to tighter regulations and require costly pollution controls.

"Delay means money. The longer they can delay labeling something a known carcinogen, the more money they can make," said James Huff, associate director for chemical carcinogenesis at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences in the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Vitter’s ties to the formaldehyde industry are well known. According to Talking Points Memo, his election campaign received about $20,500 last year from companies that produce large amounts of formaldehyde waste in Louisiana. But ProPublica found that Vitter actually took in nearly twice that amount if contributions from other companies, trade groups and lobbyists with interests in formaldehyde regulation are included. Among those contributors is Charles Grizzle, a top-paid lobbyist for the Formaldehyde Council, an industry trade group that had long sought a National Academy review of the chemical.

Sen. James Inhofe persuaded the EPA to delay its formaldehyde risk assessment in 2004. (Getty Images file photo)

Congress stalled the formaldehyde risk assessment once before. In 2004, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., persuaded the EPA to delay it, even though preliminary findings from a National Cancer Institute study had already linked formaldehyde to leukemia. Inhofe insisted that the EPA wait for a more "robust set of findings" from the institute.

Koch Industries, a large chemical manufacturer and one of Inhofe’s biggest campaign contributors, gave Inhofe $6,000 that year. That same year Koch bought two pulp mills from Georgia-Pacific, a major formaldehyde producer and one of the world’s largest plywood manufacturers. The next year Koch bought all of Georgia-Pacific.



Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke

A bit of a problem with that senator.... Kind of like the problem with Al Gore and his Occidental Petroleum contract... Or his stock in CCX the carbon credit trade market, and their partnerships with 5 other carbon trade markets all over the world... Di you know Maurice Strong was on the board of CCX? you know him he's a bigtime liberal from the UN Environmental Program. Former head of them in fact. until that messy Oil for Food fiasco in Iraq and he had to resign. Yeah now he lives in china and is helping them get their carbon trade market up and running. What a guy!

Fine example of socialistic principles and ethics.... Why I bet we can color all the liberals with that brush can't we... yeah you just did that to republicans so why not...

So I say that all liberal democrats who support AGW cap and trade legislation are just like Al Gore and Maurice Strong.... Sounds reasonable wouldn't you agree?

 

[Bfgrn]

How Senator Vitter Battled the EPA Over Formaldehyde’s Link to Cancer

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has pushed the EPA to slow its process of updating its 20-year-old health assessment of formaldehyde. After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of his state's residents said they suffered respiratory problems after being housed in government trailers contaminated with formaldehyde. (Left: A child looks out of a FEMA trailer in Port Sulphur, La. May 2008 photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

When Sen. David Vitter persuaded the EPA to agree to yet another review of its long-delayed assessment of the health risks of formaldehyde, he was praised by companies that use or manufacture a chemical found in everything from plywood to carpet.

As long as the studies continue, the EPA will still list formaldehyde as a "probable" rather than a "known" carcinogen, even though three major scientific reviews now link it to leukemia and have strengthened its ties to other forms of cancer. The chemical industry is fighting to avoid that designation, because it could lead to tighter regulations and require costly pollution controls.

"Delay means money. The longer they can delay labeling something a known carcinogen, the more money they can make," said James Huff, associate director for chemical carcinogenesis at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences in the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Vitter’s ties to the formaldehyde industry are well known. According to Talking Points Memo, his election campaign received about $20,500 last year from companies that produce large amounts of formaldehyde waste in Louisiana. But ProPublica found that Vitter actually took in nearly twice that amount if contributions from other companies, trade groups and lobbyists with interests in formaldehyde regulation are included. Among those contributors is Charles Grizzle, a top-paid lobbyist for the Formaldehyde Council, an industry trade group that had long sought a National Academy review of the chemical.

Sen. James Inhofe persuaded the EPA to delay its formaldehyde risk assessment in 2004. (Getty Images file photo)

Congress stalled the formaldehyde risk assessment once before. In 2004, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., persuaded the EPA to delay it, even though preliminary findings from a National Cancer Institute study had already linked formaldehyde to leukemia. Inhofe insisted that the EPA wait for a more "robust set of findings" from the institute.

Koch Industries, a large chemical manufacturer and one of Inhofe’s biggest campaign contributors, gave Inhofe $6,000 that year. That same year Koch bought two pulp mills from Georgia-Pacific, a major formaldehyde producer and one of the world’s largest plywood manufacturers. The next year Koch bought all of Georgia-Pacific.



Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke

A bit of a problem with that senator.... Kind of like the problem with Al Gore and his Occidental Petroleum contract... Or his stock in CCX the carbon credit trade market, and their partnerships with 5 other carbon trade markets all over the world... Di you know Maurice Strong was on the board of CCX? you know him he's a bigtime liberal from the UN Environmental Program. Former head of them in fact. until that messy Oil for Food fiasco in Iraq and he had to resign. Yeah now he lives in china and is helping them get their carbon trade market up and running. What a guy!

Fine example of socialistic principles and ethics.... Why I bet we can color all the liberals with that brush can't we... yeah you just did that to republicans so why not...

So I say that all liberal democrats who support AGW cap and trade legislation are just like Al Gore and Maurice Strong.... Sounds reasonable wouldn't you agree?

What a HUGE pile of typical right wing Faux Snooze pea brain garbage. Al Gore's FATHER represented Occidental as an attorney after he lost election to the Senate. When Sr died the shares he owned passed to the estate. Al Gore Jr. never exercised control over the shares and they were sold when the estate closed.

Also, you have other HUGE problems. First, Al Gore is not a US Senator, he is a private citizen. Second, it's ironic free enterprise and entrepreneurship are suddenly an evil when a liberal is involved. Al Gore is investing in green energy and industries that will clean up our environment. Sounds like smart and responsible investing to me. Better go back and study up on more Alex Jones conspiracy garbage.

There is no bigger difference between today's Republicans and Democrats in Congress than environmental issues.

Educate yourself pea brain...

League of Conservation Voters

2009 National Environmental Scorecard - http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/highslows.pdf

 

[gslack]

How Senator Vitter Battled the EPA Over Formaldehyde’s Link to Cancer

Sen. David Vitter, R-La., has pushed the EPA to slow its process of updating its 20-year-old health assessment of formaldehyde. After Hurricane Katrina, thousands of his state's residents said they suffered respiratory problems after being housed in government trailers contaminated with formaldehyde. (Left: A child looks out of a FEMA trailer in Port Sulphur, La. May 2008 photo by Mario Tama/Getty Images)

When Sen. David Vitter persuaded the EPA to agree to yet another review of its long-delayed assessment of the health risks of formaldehyde, he was praised by companies that use or manufacture a chemical found in everything from plywood to carpet.

As long as the studies continue, the EPA will still list formaldehyde as a "probable" rather than a "known" carcinogen, even though three major scientific reviews now link it to leukemia and have strengthened its ties to other forms of cancer. The chemical industry is fighting to avoid that designation, because it could lead to tighter regulations and require costly pollution controls.

"Delay means money. The longer they can delay labeling something a known carcinogen, the more money they can make," said James Huff, associate director for chemical carcinogenesis at the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences in the Department of Health and Human Services.
---
Vitter’s ties to the formaldehyde industry are well known. According to Talking Points Memo, his election campaign received about $20,500 last year from companies that produce large amounts of formaldehyde waste in Louisiana. But ProPublica found that Vitter actually took in nearly twice that amount if contributions from other companies, trade groups and lobbyists with interests in formaldehyde regulation are included. Among those contributors is Charles Grizzle, a top-paid lobbyist for the Formaldehyde Council, an industry trade group that had long sought a National Academy review of the chemical.

Sen. James Inhofe persuaded the EPA to delay its formaldehyde risk assessment in 2004. (Getty Images file photo)

Congress stalled the formaldehyde risk assessment once before. In 2004, Sen. James Inhofe, R-Okla., persuaded the EPA to delay it, even though preliminary findings from a National Cancer Institute study had already linked formaldehyde to leukemia. Inhofe insisted that the EPA wait for a more "robust set of findings" from the institute.

Koch Industries, a large chemical manufacturer and one of Inhofe’s biggest campaign contributors, gave Inhofe $6,000 that year. That same year Koch bought two pulp mills from Georgia-Pacific, a major formaldehyde producer and one of the world’s largest plywood manufacturers. The next year Koch bought all of Georgia-Pacific.



Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe.
Edmund Burke

A bit of a problem with that senator.... Kind of like the problem with Al Gore and his Occidental Petroleum contract... Or his stock in CCX the carbon credit trade market, and their partnerships with 5 other carbon trade markets all over the world... Di you know Maurice Strong was on the board of CCX? you know him he's a bigtime liberal from the UN Environmental Program. Former head of them in fact. until that messy Oil for Food fiasco in Iraq and he had to resign. Yeah now he lives in china and is helping them get their carbon trade market up and running. What a guy!

Fine example of socialistic principles and ethics.... Why I bet we can color all the liberals with that brush can't we... yeah you just did that to republicans so why not...

So I say that all liberal democrats who support AGW cap and trade legislation are just like Al Gore and Maurice Strong.... Sounds reasonable wouldn't you agree?

What a HUGE pile of typical right wing Faux Snooze pea brain garbage. Al Gore's FATHER represented Occidental as an attorney after he lost election to the Senate. When Sr died the shares he owned passed to the estate. Al Gore Jr. never exercised control over the shares and they were sold when the estate closed.

Also, you have other HUGE problems. First, Al Gore is not a US Senator, he is a private citizen. Second, it's ironic free enterprise and entrepreneurship are suddenly an evil when a liberal is involved. Al Gore is investing in green energy and industries that will clean up our environment. Sounds like smart and responsible investing to me. Better go back and study up on more Alex Jones conspiracy garbage.

There is no bigger difference between today's Republicans and Democrats in Congress than environmental issues.

Educate yourself pea brain...

League of Conservation Voters

2009 National Environmental Scorecard - http://lcv-ftp.org/scorecard09/highslows.pdf

BS!
CorpWatch*:*Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate

Al Gore: The Other Oil Candidate

by Bill Mesler, Special to CorpWatch
August 29th, 2000

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For thousands of years, the Kitanemuk Indians made their home in the Elk Hills of central California. Come February 2001, the last of the 100 burial grounds, holy places and other archaeological sites of the Kitanemuks will be obliterated by the oil drilling of Occidental Petroleum Company. Oxy's plans will "destroy forever the evidence that we once existed on this land," according to Dee Dominguez, a Kitanemuk whose great grandfather was a signatory to the 1851 treaty that surrendered the Elk Hills.

Occidental's planned drilling of the Elk Hills doesn't only threaten the memory of the Kitanemuk. Environmentalists say a rare species of fox, lizard and the kangaroo rat would also be threatened by Oxy's plans. A lawsuit has been filed under the Endangered Species Act. But none of that has given pause to Occidental or the politician who helped engineer the sale of the drilling rights to the federally-owned Elk Hills. That politician is Al Gore.

Gore recommended that the Elk Hills be sold as part of his 1995 "Reinventing Government" National Performance Review program. Gore-confidant (and former campaign manager) Tony Coelho served on the board of directors of the private company hired to assess the sale's environmental consequences. The sale was a windfall for Oxy. Within weeks of the announced purchase Occidental stock rose ten percent.

That was good news for Gore. Despite controversy over Dick Cheney's plans to keep stock options if elected, most Americans don't know that we already have a vice president with oil company stocks. Before the Elk Hills sale, Al Gore controlled between $250,000-$500,000 of Occidental stock (he is executor of a trust that he says goes only to his mother, but will revert to him upon her death). After the sale, Gore began disclosing between $500,000 and $1 million of his significantly more valuable stock.

Nowhere is Al Gore's environmental hypocrisy more glaring than when it comes to his relationship with Occidental. While on the one hand talking tough about his "big oil" opponents and waxing poetic about indigenous peoples in his 1992 book "Earth in the Balance," the Elk Hills sale and other deals show that money has always been more important to Al Gore than ideals.

Notice the site its from? its corpwatch... yeah they investigate corporate fraud and malfeasance. I don't believe they would have a reason to make this up.... I didn't go to the wall street Journal or any other right wing source so don't even try that crying tactic....

He is a private citizen NOW! Not when he did all this investing, and not when he set up CCX. And especially not when he tried to push for environmental legislation and policies which would have made him wealthy....

Who said anything about Alex Jones but you? Look at my link dipshit, its not to a blog, or a conspiracy site. its to corpwatch freaking azzhole, calling other people pea brain when you can sit there and dismiss that POS no matter what he does.... Self-righteous, pompous azzhole, wake-up your people are crooks too. Your side is no better than the other and the sooner your daydreaming, true-believing, ignorant, gullible azz realizes it the better of the whole country will be...

Don't tell me to go learn something you half-wit. Freaking daydreamer...

P.S. Why did you post two links that are completely unrelated to your claims? You trying to BS people or what? The two links you posted one to a PDF file of a so-called environmental scorecard, and the other was to some green blog about conservation voters. Neither one had anything to do with Al Gore or his Occidental investment.... Really lame...

 

[code1211]

good gawd are liberals a bunch of pussies.

and don't forget, EVERYTHING WRONG IN THE COUNTRY TODAY, is the fault of a Republican.

But I thought only 6% of scientists are Republicans. Are those 6% the portion of this group the only ones that actually do the work?

 

[Old Rocks]

From Donora to Bhopal, the chemical industry has shown far more respect for profit than human life.

PENNSYLVANIA: Death at Donora - TIME

Bhopal disaster - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

And, as we saw in the case of asbestos, they will engage in lies and fraud when the nature of their product has been known for decades.

Asbestos Exposure, Mesothelioma, and Other Asbestos Disease Problems

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Is formaldehyde causing Global Warming?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Liberal long for the day when every single activity is monitored and controlled by Obama and his Federal Government. Life is too hard, full of too many tough choices for a Libe, er I mean Progressive to handle on his own, he need to put his trust in the kind, loving hands of Big Brother

 

[Old Rocks]

Formaldehyde and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute

Several NCI surveys of professionals who are potentially exposed to formaldehyde in their work, such as anatomists and embalmers, have suggested that these individuals are at an increased risk of leukemia and brain cancer compared with the general population. However, specific work practices and exposures were not characterized in these studies. An NCI case-control study among funeral industry workers that characterized exposure to formaldehyde also found an association between increasing formaldehyde exposure and mortality from myeloid leukemia (3). For this study, carried out among funeral industry workers who had died between 1960 and 1986, researchers compared those who had died from hematopoietic and lymphatic cancers and brain tumors with those who died from other causes. (Hematopoietic or hematologic cancers such as leukemia develop in the blood or bone marrow. Lymphatic cancers develop in the tissues and organs that produce, store, and carry white blood cells that fight infections and other diseases.) This analysis showed that those who had performed the most embalming and those with the highest estimated formaldehyde exposure had the greatest risk of myeloid leukemia. There was no association with other cancers of the hematopoietic and lymphatic systems or with brain cancer.

 

[JBeukema]

There was actually a right winger on another board that posted that a little mercury won't hurt anyone.
And bragged how he had played with it and such.
Kinda explains why he is a rightwingnut.

...

 

[JBeukema]

Ohh just go drink some dihydrogen monoxide and chill.

ethanol is better

 

[JBeukema]

Don't do anything!

Don't touch anything!

Don't Eat Anything!!

Don't drink anything!

Don't even breath until you get an "All Clear" from your Government!

Yell and scream all you want asshole, there is NO excuse for Vitter and Inhofe's disregard for the health and well being of their constituents.



It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund Burke

YOU STUPID FUCK!! I TOLD YOU YOUR KEYBOARD MIGHT HAVE DANGEROUS CHEMICALS!!

You stupid stupid fuck!

Say 10 Hail Obama's and 15 Praise Allahs and you might be saved

What do you think your keyboard is made of, wood?

RETARD FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[JBeukema]

Liberal long for the day when every single activity is monitored and controlled by Obama and his Federal Government. Life is too hard, full of too many tough choices for a Libe, er I mean Progressive to handle on his own, he need to put his trust in the kind, loving hands of Big Brother

You need to look up Liberalism and read what it actually is, you moronic partisan hack.

 

[Meister]

Not a peep from you right wing pea brains?

Why is it every time Republicans are involved human beings suffer and die?

your fixated on just one chemical? Geeze, there has to be hundreds out there....why just one, because of a republican? Google Benzadine cancer......for starters. They're all bad for us....this is just another partisan thread starter by the biggest pea brain on this board.

 

[Samson]

Formaldehyde and Cancer Risk - National Cancer Institute

Several NCI surveys of professionals who are potentially exposed to formaldehyde in their work, such as anatomists and embalmers, have suggested that these individuals are at an increased risk of leukemia and brain cancer compared with the general population. However, specific work practices and exposures were not characterized in these studies.... This analysis showed that those who had performed the most embalming and those with the highest estimated formaldehyde exposure had the greatest risk of myeloid leukemia. There was no association with other cancers of the hematopoietic and lymphatic systems or with brain cancer.

So, morticians should install fume hoods.

Where is the evidence that the Chemical Industry (which has been highly regulated for decades) is "Killing Americans?"

Much less how Republicans are "hiding" how they are doing it?

You morons realise that Formaldehyde is a relatively common organic chemical, right? Been around a LONG time. Even as long as there have been Democrats in office?

But let's ignore that, in favor of some idiotic partisan rant about one of the few industries in America that still provides jobs for Americans.

Let's send it all to China

In the U.S. there are 170 major chemical companies. They operate internationally with more than 2,800 facilities outside the U.S. and 1,700 foreign subsidiaries or affiliates operating. The U.S. chemical output is $400 billion a year. The U.S. industry records large trade surpluses and employs more than a million people in the United States alone. The chemical industry is also the second largest consumer of energy in manufacturing and spends over $5 billion annually on pollution abatement.

......

The traditional dominance of chemical production by the Triad countries is being challenged by changes in feedstock availability and price, labour cost, energy cost, differential rates of economic growth and environmental pressures. Instrumental in the changing structure of the global chemical industry has been the growth in China, India, Korea, the Middle East, South East Asia, Nigeria, Trinidad, Thailand, Brazil, Venezuela, and Indonesia.