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It's Back..... Dicamba related crop damage is showing up across the Midwest of the United States for the second year in a row. EPA where are you? ipm.missouri.edu/IPCM/2018/6/di…
Here's a piece I did it on the topic last year for some background "Crops in 25 States Damaged by Unintended Drift of Weed Killer" nyti.ms/2z4oTBH
Dicamba has been used starting last year on genetically modified soybean and cotton crops that grown from seeds created to be tolerant to over the top weed killers. Problem is that herbicide can drift off the fields where it is being applied, landing on nearby farms or trees.
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The NYT has written a great deal abt Chlorpyrifos since 2017, after Pruitt vetoed staff & decided not to ban it, despite evidence it's hurting farm workers/children. Abt 6 million lbs sprayed each yr on soybean/corn/oranges/almonds/
apples/asparagus/grape/broccoli/etc. Eat those?
Here are some of those stories, if you missed them. First, Pruitt rejects his own staff recommendations and decides not to ban the pesticide.
nytimes.com/2017/03/29/us/…
Then @RoniNYTimes and I got the EPA emails that showed how Pruitt in early 2017 had promised the farmers that use the pesticide he was there ready to help them. Emails also showed how EPA staff advice was rejected.
nytimes.com/2017/08/18/us/…
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PART IV: TRUMP ERA IMPACT ON AIR/WATER. SCENE:WEST VA. IF there's a single thing helped motivate modern environmental movement in US it was Cuyahoga River repeatedly catching fire in OHIO back in 1950s/60s. How could a river (IT IS WATER) catch fire? ANSWER : SEVERE POLLUTION
THE creation of the EPA in 1970--and the passage of the Clean Air Act and Clean Water Act--empowered the Fed Gov to clean up the terrible degradation that industrialization had wrought to our air and water. (STICK WITH ME ON THIS, sorry for history lesson)
Kanawha River, W Va. largest inland river is one of those rivers that had been severely hurt by decades of abuse by humans. Human waste, power plants, coal mine runoff, industrial pollution, etc. A MESS. Here is EPA report from 70s
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PART III: How Much Is Clean Air Worth To YOU? Scene: HOUSTON, Tx. The Obama EPA moved in Dec. 2016 to mandate that nine coal-burning power plants install so-called scrubbers to make a MASSIVE cut in SULFUR DIOXIDE pollution. WHY? Tx power plants emit more SO2 than anywhere in US
The move by the EPA was under the so-called REGIONAL HAZE rule, that dates back to 1999 and is intended to help cut haze that mars the air in national parks and wilderness areas nationwide. THIS IS WHAT HAZE LOOKS LIKE.
Obama EPA concluded that Best Available Retrofit Technology (BART) upgrades at these nine plants would eliminate 190,000 tons a year of SO2=or more than any other state produces, except Texas. Here is description of that plan.
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We just received another grim warning that the problem of hate is growing in the United States. For the third year in a row, the FBI has reported a jump in hate crimes.

The new data showed that they increased by a staggering 17% in 2017. washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost…
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At dinner, I learned more about corruption + racism built into society by our masters. A book we discussed (Zinn) was used as part of this "Left" resource's bibliography. I had to share. [A thread]

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.@ECEverett1 found a [MAP] relevant to the OCONUS LURES, Crossfire Hurricane deepstate coup:

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