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This spring we expect to see a vote on the bill in the Senate Environmental and Public Works Committee and hope to see it move to the Senate floor.
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The Safe Chemicals Act would overhaul the 35-year-old Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which is widely perceived to have failed to protect public health and the environment. Specifically the Act would:
•Require EPA to identify and restrict the "worst of the worst" chemicals, those that persist and build up in the food chain;
•Require basic health and safety information for all chemicals as a condition for entering or remaining on the market;
•Reduce the burden of toxic chemical exposures on people of color and low-income and indigenous communities;
•Upgrade scientific methods for testing and evaluating chemicals to reflect best practices called for by the National Academy of Sciences; and
•Generally provide EPA with the tools and resources it needs to identify and address chemicals posing health and environmental concerns.
"Under current law, EPA is powerless to act against even the most notorious chemicals," said Richard Denison, Ph.D., Senior Scientist at the Environmental Defense Fund and a leading expert on TSCA. "The Safe Chemicals Act would provide EPA with the authority it needs to protect public health; the marketplace with the information companies need to innovate safe products; and consumers with the comfort in knowing that their families are being protected," he concluded.
Passed in 1976, TSCA's presumption that chemicals should be considered innocent until proven guilty was a sharp departure from the approach taken with pharmaceuticals and pesticides. Since then, an overwhelming body of science has shown that presumption to be unfounded. Published studies in peer-reviewed journals have shown many common chemicals can cause chronic diseases and can be toxic even at low doses.
Big business won't go for that.
Monsanto alone will do everything in their power to stop it.
Monsanto would actively push ads on TV saying Americans don't mind living next to toxic waste dumps if it didn't sound so ridiculous. Right, because Love Canal is a thriving neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY according to them. Just like Monsanto actively lobbied, and defeated, a CA proposition that would have required GMPO labeling on foods that have GMO ingredients. Basically Monsanto says, Americans don't want to know if food has GMO in it or not, why waste time on it?
Monsanto would actively push ads on TV saying Americans don't mind living next to toxic waste dumps if it didn't sound so ridiculous. Right, because Love Canal is a thriving neighborhood in Niagara Falls, NY according to them. Just like Monsanto actively lobbied, and defeated, a CA proposition that would have required GMPO labeling on foods that have GMO ingredients. Basically Monsanto says, Americans don't want to know if food has GMO in it or not, why waste time on it?
Kind of odd timing of this bill as Monsanto is now considering stronger doses of pesticide in their seeds because the weeds are becoming resistant to the herbicide in the corn dna.
With such great subsidies farmers didn't rotate crops and planted corn in succession so the weeds started growing resistance. You also have pesticide resistant insects that can now survive destroying the corn roots because the pesticide isn't killing them anymore.
Now we have a problem. The bees are disappearing and the weeds and destructive insects are surviving and becoming more resistant.
Frequently Asked Questions About Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)
What is Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
For more detailed information, including precautions, disposal procedures and storage requirements, refer to one of the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) available for DHMO:
Yes, you should be concerned about DHMO! Although the U.S. Government and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) do not classify Dihydrogen Monoxide as a toxic or carcinogenic substance (as it does with better known chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and benzene), DHMO is a constituent of many known toxic substances, diseases and disease-causing agents, environmental hazards and can even be lethal to humans in quantities as small as a thimbleful.
Frequently Asked Questions About Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)
What is Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
For more detailed information, including precautions, disposal procedures and storage requirements, refer to one of the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) available for DHMO:
Yes, you should be concerned about DHMO! Although the U.S. Government and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) do not classify Dihydrogen Monoxide as a toxic or carcinogenic substance (as it does with better known chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and benzene), DHMO is a constituent of many known toxic substances, diseases and disease-causing agents, environmental hazards and can even be lethal to humans in quantities as small as a thimbleful.
Thank you for being cute. Without Dihydrogen Monoxide, the Earth would be as dead as Mars . Now, I imagine you're happily prospecting on buying some property on a Superfund site, yes?
Yeah the EPA just banned rat poison. So enjoy your rats infesting the US. We already got bed bugs coming back. The quest to turn the US into a third world banana republic marches on.
Kind of odd timing of this bill as Monsanto is now considering stronger doses of pesticide in their seeds because the weeds are becoming resistant to the herbicide in the corn dna.
With such great subsidies farmers didn't rotate crops and planted corn in succession so the weeds started growing resistance. You also have pesticide resistant insects that can now survive destroying the corn roots because the pesticide isn't killing them anymore.
Now we have a problem. The bees are disappearing and the weeds and destructive insects are surviving and becoming more resistant.
Don't worry Brawndo will solve all the problems..........I mean it's got electrolytes
Frequently Asked Questions About Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)
What is Dihydrogen Monoxide?
Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO) is a colorless and odorless chemical compound, also referred to by some as Dihydrogen Oxide, Hydrogen Hydroxide, Hydronium Hydroxide, or simply Hydric acid. Its basis is the highly reactive hydroxyl radical, a species shown to mutate DNA, denature proteins, disrupt cell membranes, and chemically alter critical neurotransmitters. The atomic components of DHMO are found in a number of caustic, explosive and poisonous compounds such as Sulfuric Acid, Nitroglycerine and Ethyl Alcohol.
For more detailed information, including precautions, disposal procedures and storage requirements, refer to one of the Material Safety Data Sheets (MSDS) available for DHMO:
Yes, you should be concerned about DHMO! Although the U.S. Government and the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) do not classify Dihydrogen Monoxide as a toxic or carcinogenic substance (as it does with better known chemicals such as hydrochloric acid and benzene), DHMO is a constituent of many known toxic substances, diseases and disease-causing agents, environmental hazards and can even be lethal to humans in quantities as small as a thimbleful.
Nothing you stated proves it is dangerous, just throwing in words like chemical and acid isn't enough to scare some people off.
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according to them. Just like Monsanto actively lobbied, and defeated, a CA proposition that would have required GMPO labeling on foods that have GMO ingredients. Basically Monsanto says, Americans don't want to know if food has GMO in it or not, why waste time on it? 
Frequently Asked Questions About Dihydrogen Monoxide (DHMO)
