Dow Chemical gave $1 million to Trumps inauguration, now wants pesticide risk study buried

[babylonsister]

Kiley Kroh
Senior Editor at ThinkProgress.
Apr 20
Dow Chemical gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration, now wants pesticide risk study buried
The chemical manufacturer also pushed for a potentially dangerous insecticide not to be banned.



Andrew Liveris, president and CEO of Dow Chemical Company, is quite pleased with the new atmosphere in the White House. Liveris, who also heads Trump’s American Business Council, has praised the president’s business sense and cheered the administration’s regulatory rollback, saying Trump and his team have “managed to move the ball in 45 days on regulatory reform more than in the previous eight years.”

Dow Chemical also joined several other major corporations in ponying up for Trump’s inauguration — giving $1 million to the organizing committee. Donors at that level “received tickets to a luncheon with Cabinet appointees and congressional leaders,” CNBC reported.

Two months later, Trump’s head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Scott Pruitt, announced that he would not follow the recommendation of the agency’s own scientists to ban the use of chlorpyrifos, an insecticide that has been linked to severe health consequences, particularly in children and farmworkers.

Chlorpyrifos is manufactured by Dow AgroSciences, a division of Dow Chemical. Dow has argued against a ban, claiming the science regarding potential health impacts is inconclusive. In announcing his decision to reject the ban, Pruitt said his agency was “returning to using sound science in decision-making — rather than predetermined results.”

Since then, Dow has already moved on to its next request. Last week, lawyers representing Dow sent letters to three of Trump’s cabinet heads asking them to ignore government studies regarding the harmful effects of a group of pesticides on endangered species, according to an Associated Press exclusive published Thursday.

“Over the past four years, government scientists have compiled an official record running more than 10,000 pages indicating the three pesticides under review — chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion — pose a risk to nearly every endangered species they studied,” the AP reported. “Regulators at the three federal agencies, which share responsibilities for enforcing the Endangered Species Act, are close to issuing findings expected to result in new limits on how and where the highly toxic pesticides can be used.”



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https://thinkprogress.org/dow-wants-trump-administration-to-ignore-presticide-risk-study-f56da15ddffe

[justhanginon]

1. Actually, that was not a million dollar gift, that was an investment by the Chem companies

for the future health of their companies. That is not to be confused with the future health of the American people of whom they could not care less.

[BSdetect]

2. corruption, collusion, catastrophy.

Here we go.

[Achilleaze]

3. gag me with a gallon of republican-style chemical crud

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

4. They need to spray Merde a Lago with it

[spanone]

5. that's what decisions like citizens united does...sets a quid pro quo

[moondust]

6. Crisis-ridden Venezuela gave $500K

Venezuela faces shortages of food, water, medicine, electricity and money.

But its state-run oil company -- through a subsidiary -- donated $500,000 to President Trump's inauguration committee on December 22, 2016.

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http://money.cnn.com/2017/04/20/news/economy/venezuela-trump-inauguration/