Another study shows "long-term exposure to air pollutants poses a significant risk to cardiovascular & respiratory health among the elderly population in the US." ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/CI…
It's worth revisiting outliers among @EPA's clean air advisors, thanks to @EPAAWheeler. 1/
It's worth revisiting outliers among @EPA's clean air advisors, thanks to @EPAAWheeler. 1/
In 2018, @EPAAWheeler named a @TCEQ toxicologist to EPA's Clean Air Science Advisory Committee. She opposed safer health standards for smog pollution & disputed links to mortality bc elderly health study subjects "within days of death" were "less likely to be outdoors" anyway. 2/ 
@EPAAWheeler @TCEQ This gruesome view was in an article co-authored with the director of the Toxicology Division of the @TCEQ (notice a trend here?) that disgraced EPA head Scott Pruitt picked to head EPA's prestigious Science Advisory Board. energyindepth.org/wp-content/upl… texasobserver.org/texas-toxicolo… 3/
The @TCEQ duo appointed by Trump's @EPA attacked EPA's's safer health standards for smog pollution, asking even more offensively, "Were all of the 100,000s of people in epidemiology studies outside for 8 hours the day immediately before their deaths?” 4/ energyindepth.org/wp-content/upl…
The @TCEQ duo's article also opposed safer health standards for smog by dismissing short-term, "reversible" health hazards. They argued, instead, that harmful smog exposure must “result in permanent injury or respiratory dysfunction" before EPA should credit it.
Reread that. 5/
Reread that. 5/
The Pruitt-Wheeler appointed duo even rejected long-established links between smog pollution & asthma attacks in kids, arguing that pollen & race & ethnicity & household poverty were more important considerations than smog when setting clean air health standards--for smog. 6/
Realize that Trump's @EPA & Scott Pruitt & @EPAAWheeler considered these outlier, anti-health views to be qualifications to serve on the nation’s most important EPA committees advising whether YOU should be protected from medically unsafe air pollution. 7/
Realize too, America, that at least one of the outlier co-authors of this offensive article *remains* a member of @EPA's official Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee under the Biden-Harris Admin., unless & until EPA asks current members to resign. energyindepth.org/wp-content/upl… 8/
Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III directed all members of Defense Department advisory committees to resign from the committees by Feb. 16. defense.gov/Explore/News/A…
Members of @EPA advisory committees named by Trump politicos should be next. 9/9 defense.gov/Explore/News/A…
Members of @EPA advisory committees named by Trump politicos should be next. 9/9 defense.gov/Explore/News/A…
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