The Industries are injuring and killing people across America with our government's failure to provide strict safety standards, before permitting products to be marketed.. The EPA is failing Americans, perhaps it is time to get people iin there who will protect us or shut it down. Taxpayers are supporting it...and demand accountability!
And what about the toxic chemicals in scented products. Plug-in air fresheners are the worst. Scented laundry Products are toxic. Everything is scented these days. Scented kitty litter is very toxic for cats. Chemical industry is just as powerful as big Pharma. People are desensitized from all the fragrances. They don't realize how toxic they are.
Dish soap is scented. Personal care products are scented.
Can't go anywhere without encountering, an air freshener, including a doctor's office, dentist, office, hospital, gym, uber. It's poisonous.
Unfortunately, our government agencies seem to serve as repositories of information rather than organizations of action. I learned not long ago that the EPA launched an Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program around 2008–
To date, they have removed zero chemicals from our environment. Apparently, the real mission is to “watch” them. I’m not sure what they’re waiting to see, but they’re watching—millions of dollars later, with no results.
I see in the EPA's "Near-Term Strategy Announcement" in that document. It uses terms like "near-term" and "intends." Our definitions of those terms seem to differ.
Those at the EPA should get a urine analysis of the full toxin panel, so they'll understand how much toxic load they already have in their bodies. And they should have their children tested as well. Then perhaps, they'll understand why it’s so important to no longer ignore this issue.
I searched online for any promises Trump made to reduce toxins like paraquat, chlormequat, atrazine, glyphosate, heavy metals, and PFAS chemicals. But the search got no results. When and where were these statements made?
The Environmental Protection Agency is proving to be anything but that if they don’t begin listening to and implementing policies of the MAHA and MAAM groups. It appears they are in corporations pockets and changes need to be made in the leadership of this agency. This is where Trump can make changes.
Sadly, both the EPA and Trump have been captured by BigAg, BigFood, BigChem, BigOil, etc. so there's very little hope of anything improving at the federal level. Instead, we as consumers need to vote with our wallets and boycott all these harmful products.
I hope that bureaucrats can be replaced in the EPA,as they have been in HHS, to resolve these problems. The health of our nation depends on it. You are absolutely right that we need to stop buying the products of these big corporations.
I'm wondering if instead of trying to solve this problem with a top-down approach, MAHA & MAAM focus their efforts on a public information campaign targeting consumers (of household, personal care, gardening, and food products, as well as farmers using these chemicals). We all know these "regulatory" agencies exist to protect industry rather than the public and planet, so let's approach this problem from a free-market perspective, by encouraging consumers to vote with their wallets by boycotting all these harmful products, and switching to non-toxic ones. There are plenty available these days! Then, encourage farmers to switch to regenerative, organic, hydroponic, greenhouse, and other forms of non-toxic agriculture. Money/profit is all these companies/corporations understand, so let's speak their language by depriving them of our money!
As 20 comments here show, it’s obvious that the EPA has intentionally not done its job. Same for all other federal regulatory agency and department (except. as of this year, HHS, which is waking from its long slumber).
Negligence that widespread is no accident. That's when conspiracy theories such as "Aliens are working through Masons for a New World Order" start to seem the most reasonable explanation of why the collapse of service to taxpayers keeps expanding instead of being corrected.
Alas, most of America's honest and trusting taxpayers haven't yet figured out that government control constantly expands. They are still lulled into complacency by the few remaining shreds of our Republic, such as regular elections and a "functioning" economy.
At the same time, close scrutiny of the deep state shows it's many weaknesses. The plan for total control is being hurried along because so many people are waking up. They especially want us to believe they are all powerful so we will give up, "There's nothing I, as one person, can do to stop it." That's the Mafia-like strategy of carrots and sticks, “friendly” bribery and violent threats.
Yet if we look at such times in history, and also look beyond our borders, we can see the power of grassroots actions.
If we really want change, rather than just enjoying the feeling of superiority because we know more than the majority, we'll look for the structural scaffolding that not merely ALLOWS the EPA and all other government agencies to fail at their job, but ENSURES that that trend will continue.
While it’s true that government famously can’t fix itself – hence the widespread resignation – there’s a book that explains why regaining our republic is easier than we think. It’s been done many times, and here are step-by-step directions.
It’s titled: THE MECHANICS OF CHANGING THE WORLD — POLITICAL ARCHITECTURE TO ROLL BACK STATE AND CORPORATE POWER.
The author, John Macgregor, distills 1300+ sources and 8 years of work into 400 pages. He takes us all the way back to prehistoric hunter gatherers’ egalitarian self-governance. Then we discover the first documented democracy – the 65 years of Athens’ Golden Age. After a mere 2400-year interlude of empires, we witness the second flowering of democracy in Philadelphia, at a closed-door meeting during May and June of 1787, which produced a constitution adopted a year later.
Despite the flaws in that document, we ended slavery, reduced oppression of first nations, and extricated ourselves from wars that the majority didn’t want. Women got the vote, Jim Crow was made illegal (tho' prejudice lingers), hungry children were fed.
Despite all that progress, it was impossible, however, for the Founding Parents to foresee the 4 modern obstacles to a well-functioning constitutional republic. Macgregor explains how we can regain genuine representative government that currently suffers these maladies:
● Corporate money runs DC and state capitals
● Centralized media doesn’t tolerate dissent
● Americans have no clue about the transformative effect of Citizens Assemblies (which already work well for many nations, such as the Swiss), and we never learned why the parliamentary system is more balanced than our current presidential system
● Voters in democracies around the world are discouraged because our feeble attempts to influence our electeds (demonstrations, letters to the editor, and voting) hardly change anything
Here are 3 ways to get more info on this path to justice and peace:
1. Mike Muntisov provides an excellent overview of CHANGING THE WORLD here:
3. In Chapter 10, Macgregor demonstrates how our government can fool most of the people most of the time, with the COVID “Scamdemic” as the example. He gave me permission to share that chapter, if you’re curious:
Like so many of us, John Macgregor isn't in this for the money; he set the price of the book (available at Barnes & Noble, and our darling Amazon) as low as possible, thus earning the magnificent return of 28¢ per hard copy that's sold (probably about the same for the digital version).
To sum up, we CAN regain our constitutional democracy. If you can find time now, be an early bird in this still-unknown paradigm change. Or, if you’re spread too thin, wait until we have a modern Boston Tea Party that galvanizes the nation and jump on the band wagon then.
The Industries are injuring and killing people across America with our government's failure to provide strict safety standards, before permitting products to be marketed.. The EPA is failing Americans, perhaps it is time to get people iin there who will protect us or shut it down. Taxpayers are supporting it...and demand accountability!
And what about the toxic chemicals in scented products. Plug-in air fresheners are the worst. Scented laundry Products are toxic. Everything is scented these days. Scented kitty litter is very toxic for cats. Chemical industry is just as powerful as big Pharma. People are desensitized from all the fragrances. They don't realize how toxic they are.
Dish soap is scented. Personal care products are scented.
Can't go anywhere without encountering, an air freshener, including a doctor's office, dentist, office, hospital, gym, uber. It's poisonous.
Unfortunately, our government agencies seem to serve as repositories of information rather than organizations of action. I learned not long ago that the EPA launched an Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program around 2008–
https://www.epa.gov/endocrine-disruption
To date, they have removed zero chemicals from our environment. Apparently, the real mission is to “watch” them. I’m not sure what they’re waiting to see, but they’re watching—millions of dollars later, with no results.
that database is just for show.
I see in the EPA's "Near-Term Strategy Announcement" in that document. It uses terms like "near-term" and "intends." Our definitions of those terms seem to differ.
I guess that gives them a participation award? We’re really trying… We can’t wait for them…😵💫
Those at the EPA should get a urine analysis of the full toxin panel, so they'll understand how much toxic load they already have in their bodies. And they should have their children tested as well. Then perhaps, they'll understand why it’s so important to no longer ignore this issue.
EPA cowards.
I searched online for any promises Trump made to reduce toxins like paraquat, chlormequat, atrazine, glyphosate, heavy metals, and PFAS chemicals. But the search got no results. When and where were these statements made?
I believe it's been Kennedy making these statements, as a representative of the Trump Admin.
TRUMP NEEDS TO STEP UP HIS GAME FOR THE PEOPLE. DTOP WORRYING ABOUT BALLROOMS!
As long as the EPA is lead by Zeldin, there can be no MAHA. He is owned by Big AG.
The Environmental Protection Agency is proving to be anything but that if they don’t begin listening to and implementing policies of the MAHA and MAAM groups. It appears they are in corporations pockets and changes need to be made in the leadership of this agency. This is where Trump can make changes.
Sadly, both the EPA and Trump have been captured by BigAg, BigFood, BigChem, BigOil, etc. so there's very little hope of anything improving at the federal level. Instead, we as consumers need to vote with our wallets and boycott all these harmful products.
I hope that bureaucrats can be replaced in the EPA,as they have been in HHS, to resolve these problems. The health of our nation depends on it. You are absolutely right that we need to stop buying the products of these big corporations.
I'm wondering if instead of trying to solve this problem with a top-down approach, MAHA & MAAM focus their efforts on a public information campaign targeting consumers (of household, personal care, gardening, and food products, as well as farmers using these chemicals). We all know these "regulatory" agencies exist to protect industry rather than the public and planet, so let's approach this problem from a free-market perspective, by encouraging consumers to vote with their wallets by boycotting all these harmful products, and switching to non-toxic ones. There are plenty available these days! Then, encourage farmers to switch to regenerative, organic, hydroponic, greenhouse, and other forms of non-toxic agriculture. Money/profit is all these companies/corporations understand, so let's speak their language by depriving them of our money!
As 20 comments here show, it’s obvious that the EPA has intentionally not done its job. Same for all other federal regulatory agency and department (except. as of this year, HHS, which is waking from its long slumber).
Negligence that widespread is no accident. That's when conspiracy theories such as "Aliens are working through Masons for a New World Order" start to seem the most reasonable explanation of why the collapse of service to taxpayers keeps expanding instead of being corrected.
Alas, most of America's honest and trusting taxpayers haven't yet figured out that government control constantly expands. They are still lulled into complacency by the few remaining shreds of our Republic, such as regular elections and a "functioning" economy.
At the same time, close scrutiny of the deep state shows it's many weaknesses. The plan for total control is being hurried along because so many people are waking up. They especially want us to believe they are all powerful so we will give up, "There's nothing I, as one person, can do to stop it." That's the Mafia-like strategy of carrots and sticks, “friendly” bribery and violent threats.
Yet if we look at such times in history, and also look beyond our borders, we can see the power of grassroots actions.
If we really want change, rather than just enjoying the feeling of superiority because we know more than the majority, we'll look for the structural scaffolding that not merely ALLOWS the EPA and all other government agencies to fail at their job, but ENSURES that that trend will continue.
While it’s true that government famously can’t fix itself – hence the widespread resignation – there’s a book that explains why regaining our republic is easier than we think. It’s been done many times, and here are step-by-step directions.
It’s titled: THE MECHANICS OF CHANGING THE WORLD — POLITICAL ARCHITECTURE TO ROLL BACK STATE AND CORPORATE POWER.
The author, John Macgregor, distills 1300+ sources and 8 years of work into 400 pages. He takes us all the way back to prehistoric hunter gatherers’ egalitarian self-governance. Then we discover the first documented democracy – the 65 years of Athens’ Golden Age. After a mere 2400-year interlude of empires, we witness the second flowering of democracy in Philadelphia, at a closed-door meeting during May and June of 1787, which produced a constitution adopted a year later.
Despite the flaws in that document, we ended slavery, reduced oppression of first nations, and extricated ourselves from wars that the majority didn’t want. Women got the vote, Jim Crow was made illegal (tho' prejudice lingers), hungry children were fed.
Despite all that progress, it was impossible, however, for the Founding Parents to foresee the 4 modern obstacles to a well-functioning constitutional republic. Macgregor explains how we can regain genuine representative government that currently suffers these maladies:
● Corporate money runs DC and state capitals
● Centralized media doesn’t tolerate dissent
● Americans have no clue about the transformative effect of Citizens Assemblies (which already work well for many nations, such as the Swiss), and we never learned why the parliamentary system is more balanced than our current presidential system
● Voters in democracies around the world are discouraged because our feeble attempts to influence our electeds (demonstrations, letters to the editor, and voting) hardly change anything
Here are 3 ways to get more info on this path to justice and peace:
1. Mike Muntisov provides an excellent overview of CHANGING THE WORLD here:
https://courtofthegrandchildren.com/democracy-3-0/
2. Or read Macgregor’s own, more detailed, Introduction – and subscribe to his Substack – here:
https://johnmacgregor.substack.com/p/introduction-to-the-mechanics-of
3. In Chapter 10, Macgregor demonstrates how our government can fool most of the people most of the time, with the COVID “Scamdemic” as the example. He gave me permission to share that chapter, if you’re curious:
https://laurenayers.substack.com/p/the-federal-government-doesnt-represent
Like so many of us, John Macgregor isn't in this for the money; he set the price of the book (available at Barnes & Noble, and our darling Amazon) as low as possible, thus earning the magnificent return of 28¢ per hard copy that's sold (probably about the same for the digital version).
To sum up, we CAN regain our constitutional democracy. If you can find time now, be an early bird in this still-unknown paradigm change. Or, if you’re spread too thin, wait until we have a modern Boston Tea Party that galvanizes the nation and jump on the band wagon then.
How disappointing! What can we do to put the pressure on? Unfortunately, Trump seems to support big AG at all costs.
Thanks to MAAM for pursuing this matter with the EPA. Please persevere. Surely the Trump admin will comply....
like when?
EPA NEEDS TO BE GUTTED!