Climatewire | Donald Trump Last time, the Regulation of Mercury tried to kick back, faced the higher opponent: Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Kennedy opposed Epa in August 2017, Trump Administration to go for applications to limit waste threads. He warned that more pollution of centers to enter canals would poison anyone through infected mercury fish – the problem he experienced personally after eating tuna.
“It’s really worrisome that they suffer from your carelessness” Kennedy said at the time. “The law says that the waters of this country, the fishing in this country, belonging to the people.”
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Eight years later, Kennedy once again administered pity. At least a dozen pollution is controlling, last week that the EPA Administrator Lee Zellin called the “agency” of the largest “agency” of the USA history of the U.S. history.
Before Kennedy has confirmed the Department of Human Services, he made a presidential campaign to “make America healthy” promise “, getting toxic chemicals from the national food.
Then, two months ago, during his confirmation hearing, Kennedy deserved his experience as an environmental lawyer with mercury pollution and as a creator of water care. “The same chemicals that kill fish kill people,” Kennedy said hearing in January.
Kennedy did not answer the requests or questions of the comments whether Mercury believes that Mercury is a threat to public health.
“If he really cared for the issues, when the fires were working, you thought he would say something,” Abel Russ said the director of the Environmental Sciences Center at the Environmental Sciences Center. “The EPA is doing a lot of things that are anathema of his life.”
If the EPs promise to control at least a dozen pollution, more people could be affected by particle, smog and nitrogen oxides. Asthma, heart attacks and early deathsaccording to EPA analyzes.
Among the rules of threatened, they are the rules of reduction in mercury. One limits the number of mercury released in the air Emissions is predicted to reduce More than 16% of the potential neurotoxin. In 2028. Another reduces the mercury that releases the rivers and currents and would help prevent baby loss Estimated 1,377 IQ Points every year.
It is not publicly known whether Kennedy weighs in the decisions of the EPA. Before the election, Trump said Would leave Kennedy “Make our country healthy,” but Kennedy cannot “touch” fossil fuels like oil and gas.
“We will not let us participate,” Trump said in October.
Since then, Trump created the healthy American committee “to ensure the healthiest cause of the world” and the cause of childhood can be a cause of chronic disease, “diets, toxic material (and) environmental policies.”
Sitting in the Commission, Kennedy and Zellin, first together, the last Tuesday, the Rollbacks of the EPA once were announced. The meeting was held behind the closed doors and did not discuss the rules of Kennedy and Zellonda, or rebound Americans discussed how Americans would affect health.
EPA spokesman Molly Vaseliou said in a statement, “no longer will see the goals to grow our environment as a binary options of our economy.”
He did not answer a question to improve American health to improve the agencies, “longing” to remove the presidents of the surrounding toxins and our food supplies and our children are healthy and strong. “
‘Fish consumption is now dangerous’
Mercury is neurotoxin that can harm the brain and nervous system, drops IQ and behavior problems. Mainly rivers and lakes are included in the air emissions established by central and factories and plants or waterways.
Once in the water, bacteria make fish and other other water organisms that make it easily a toxic form called Metylmercury. Mercury is long time in their bodies, and they can carry from prey from prey when other fish or people eat infected animals.
Mercury can harm anyone from cognition, but exposure is particularly dangerous for babies and small. Pregnant people are encouraged to prevent tuna and sword fish to protect fetals that develop nervous systems.
Kennedy himself has had mercury intoxication for fish consumption.
Du said he found it “Mercury dangerous levels” in his blood “in his blood”, after the early 2000s I have never had “word recovery problems and memory problems.
“Our fish consumption is dangerous now,” said 2017 “. In my opinion, we live in a scientific nightmare in this country.”
Kennedy has not chopped the words to poison the coal industry for poisoning the nation’s fish.
EPA wrote its first borders in 2012, Kennedy about Mercury Air Emysius OP-Ed wrote Distributing the health benefits of the rule, which was projected to avoid early deaths 4,000 and 11,000. Argued that he would stop the coal barons and magnificent mining … benefit from poisoning “.
‘Against fish’
Today, Kennedy is better for the expansion of falsels about vaccines than for the environmental defend. Concerns about vaccinations, initially, were at least rooted in fear of neurotoxic effects of the mercury. In 2005, Kennedy wrote an article Rolling Stone Magazine claim based on claims based on vaccinations to claim that autism affected healthy children – has had a link pa be Debunked inside Multiple studies. It was a magazine article Later back.
A Centers for disease control and prevention He says that the conservative is “no harm”, that is, in some vaccinations. (Timerosal was removed from US childhood vaccines in 2001, manufacturers, federal agencies and the American Academy of Pediatrician Academy, four years before the publication of Kennedy.)
In January, Kennedy attracted the link between vaccinations and fish in his confirmation. It appeared concerned about the theories of vaccine conspiracies that appeared unfair to Vaxer. “I worked for years to reduce mercury and toxic chemicals between fish, and no one had anything against the fish.”
Consuming contaminated seafood is still the most common way of mercury exposure. Surveillance tests According to food and drug administration that studied chemicals in food stores, fish showed that fish are higher levels of mercury than other foods.
Canned tuna had an average concentration of the average 230 parts in tests of the average concentration of each mercury to 2020. Cod has 87 parts per million and salmon had 21 parts per million. By comparison, Cornbread purchased by the store in 3.3 parts per million, the fish were not the highest level found in a food.
Kennedy has used his cabinet position as a Secretary of Health Put any additional food companies Note about colorful food and chemicals.
But what HHS can do to limit the presence of the mercury in fishing – the pollution of the environment is the main source of neurotoxin. HHS provides consumers advice on fish species that may have lower mercury content, actually prevention of pollution of epe pollution.
These rules show the limitations of Kennedy’s Rollbacks’ mission, said John Walke, the federal clean air program of the Natural Resource Council.
“The actions of” toxic mercury pollution increase “Healthy America again talks about” Mercury’s dangers, “he said. “Anyone talked, and it’s just talking about” The Mercury poisoning of this administration was clearly affected by ePa actions. “
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