Delay Of Report Is Blamed On Politics-Document Suggests Public Health Risks Near Great Lakes

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Washington Post

The lead author and peer reviewers of a government report raising the possibility of public health threats from industrial contamination throughout the Great Lakes region are charging that the report is being suppressed because of the questions it raises. The author also alleges that he was demoted because of the report.

Chris De Rosa, former director of the division of toxicology and environmental medicine at the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR), charges that the report he wrote was a significant factor in his reassignment to a non-supervisory "special assistant" position last year.

The House Committee on Science and Technology is investigating De Rosa's reassignment, in light of allegations that it was related to the Great Lakes report and his push to publicize the possibility of a cancer risk from formaldehyde fumes in Federal Emergency Management Agency trailers housing victims of Hurricane Katrina.

De Rosa said his agency cited the Great Lakes report being below expectations as one of the reasons for his removal from the post he had held since 1992. The ATSDR is housed within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. CDC spokesman Glen Nowak said he could not discuss personnel issues.



Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/17/AR2008021702186.html?hpid=topnews

[acmavm]

1. Delayed because of POLITICS? Well who'd would ever dream that

something like that could happen in this country today.

[Bozita]

2. Reminds me of a famous line from "Casablanca."

[acmavm]

4. Well since I'm sure it's not "you played it for her, you can play it for me"

or "I'm think this is the beginning of a beautiful relationship" (that was the last line wasnt' it or am I confused?) what line are you talking about?

[Bozita]

5. I was thinking of "I'm shocked, I tell you, shocked...."

[dragonlady]

6. How about "I am shocked, shocked--

to find that gambling is going on in here!" Gambling with our health, that's what they're doing.

[usregimechange]

3. Drag em in and put them under oath

[orleans]

7. Chris De Rosa: TRUTH-TELLER! POT STIRRER!

can't have none of that, now can we?

[DeepModem Mom]

8. K&R

[InkAddict]

9. Was the report too scary or not scary enough?

Or perhaps it suggested other corruption in environmental clean-up issues?

It's not as if the residents in these areas, down-wind or from their taps and wells, don't already know about the odds that there are dangerous pollutants in their air and water or that they continue to live under the haze and along side the poison, waiting for the politicians and legal beagles to proceed at the usual snail's pace on regulatory control and monitoring, slow funding for clean-up, etc...

This is so much SS-DD (Same S^&T-Different Day).

[InkAddict]

10. New question on healthcare applications.

When and for how long did you live near the Great Lakes?