Trump's Top Environmental Adviser Says Pesticides Aren't Bad for You

[womanofthehills]

In addition to not believing in climate change, Myron Ebell has several other lovely qualities.

To lead the transition of the Environmental Protection Agency, President-elect Donald Trump settled on notorious climate change denier Myron Ebell. The decision rattled climate activists—see Julia Lurie's interview with Bill McKibbon and David Roberts on Vox. But it isn't just greenhouse gas emissions that are likely to get a free ride under an Ebell-influenced EPA. Farm chemicals, too, would likely flow unabated if Ebell's agenda comes to dominate Trump's EPA.

http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/11/trump-epa-pesticides

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'm going to go take a nap.

Would someone please stop by and wake me up in four years?

[47of74]

9. Yeah I would too but I want to finish law school.

[Wilms]

2. Well that's a relief.

I was getting a little worried about all that.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. I think we should test them on HIM.

After all, if they're not bad for you, how could he object?



It's as though Trump has gone out of his way to pick the absolute worst candidates for each post that he could possibly find. How else can we explain these horrors?

[leftofcool]

4. Maybe we can offer him some roundup to drink.

[LeftInTX]

8. Give him Malathion...it smells like freaking shit

It smells so bad, that it stinks up the entire garage. I won't even buy it.
I buy alot of crappy stuff, including Round Up, but Malathion is beyond gross.

[marylandblue]

5. At least he won't get the honeybees

He will run into a meat grinder from the agriculture industry if he tries to kill the honeybees.

[Doreen]

6. well then, lets get a truck of pesticides and pump it into his house.

He can not get us into trouble for endangerment because he himself said it can't hurt.

[LeftInTX]

7. I propose that Trump start his day with a long tall glass of Malathion

Yummmy!!!!!!!!!

[BootinUp]

10. Pesticides and nerve gas are closely related. Where do I sign up to be a lab rat?

I want to do my part to "Make America great again".

[0rganism]

11. bye Earth, it was nice knowing you for a few years

[Yavin4]

12. No. The earth will be just fine.

It's bye bye humans and some animals.

[0rganism]

14. to me, Earth was always more than a planet

yes, the planet will keep spinning and orbiting its star for a few billion more years

the biosphere as we know it is going downhill fast and its decline is about to accelerate

[womanofthehills]

13. Did you guys see this about Cheerios having over 1000 ppb of glyphosate - yum yum!!!!!!!!

Tests Show Monsanto Weed Killer in Cheerios, Other Popular Food

(and the FDA just "temporarily" suspended it's testing of glyphosate on foods - testing it just started - I think the amts of glyphosate are so high above their residue limit, they are contemplating what to say/do - raise the limits a gazillion times???

The tests conducted by Anresco were done on 29 foods commonly found on grocery store shelves. Glyphosate residues were found in General Mills’ Cheerios at 1,125.3 parts per billion (ppb), in Kashi soft-baked oatmeal dark chocolate cookies at 275.57 ppb, and in Ritz Crackers at 270.24 ppb, according to the report. Different levels were found in Kellogg’s Special K cereal, Triscuit Crackers and several other products. The report noted that for some of the findings, the amounts were “rough estimates at best and may not represent an accurate representation of the sample.” The food companies did not respond to a request for comment.

The EPA sets a “maximum residue limit” (MRL), also known as a tolerance, for pesticide residues on food commodities, like corn and soybeans. MRLs for glyphosate vary depending upon the commodity. Finished food products like those tested at Anresco might contain ingredients from many different commodities.

The nonprofit behind the report said that concerns about glyphosate comes as research shows that Roundup can cause liver and kidney damage in rats at only 0.05 ppb, and additional studies have found that levels as low as 10 ppb can have toxic effects on the livers of fish. The groups criticized U.S. regulators for setting an acceptable daily intake (ADI) at for glyphosate at much higher levels than other countries consider safe. The United States has set the ADI for glyphosate at 1.75 milligrams per kilogram of bodyweight per day (mg/kg/bw/day) while the European Union has set it at 0.3, for instance. The EPA is supposed to set an ADI from all food and water sources that is at least 100 times lower than levels that have been demonstrated to cause no effect in animal testing. But critics assert that the EPA’s analyses have been unduly influenced by the agrichemical industry.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carey-gillam/tests-show-monsanto-weed_b_12950444.html?section=us_green

[IcyPeas]

15. Hes worked to reduce protections for endangered species.

Ebell worked for then-Rep. John Shadegg (R-Ariz.) in an effort to rework the Endangered Species Act so it would involve “as little regulation as possible” and be “more respectful of property rights.”

Global warming is a hoax and/or there could be benefits:

There would be “fewer and less severe big winter storms,” he claimed. And “life in many places would become more pleasant. Instead of 20 below zero in January in Saskatoon, it might be only 10 below. And I don’t think too many people would complain if winters in Minneapolis became more like winters in Kansas City.”

See more of his ignorant beliefs here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/myron-ebell-trump-epa_us_582ab3e4e4b0c4b63b0e5577