Sidelined Top EPA Childrens' Health Expert: "Kids Are Disposable, They Don't Matter" To Wheeler

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Making sure children are protected from environmental toxins has been Dr. Ruth Etzel's job at the Environmental Protection Agency. She's the agency's top pediatric expert – the author of textbooks and policy handbooks on children's environmental health. As director of the Office of Children's Health Protection (OCHP), it was her job to determine the impacts of regulations on children.

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Her monthly meetings to advise the EPA administrator were abruptly halted. "So, you had no one-on-one meetings with Scott Pruitt, and you had no one-on-one meetings with Andrew Wheeler? Not one?" asked Werner. "Not one."

And, she says, a national strategy to remove lead from children's environments – launched after the Flint, Michigan water crisis – stalled, with one official brought in by the new administration telling her that anything involving new regulation "wouldn't fly."

"My sense is that the government has absolutely no intention of taking any action toward seriously changing lead in children's environments," Dr. Etzel said. Werner asked, "What does that mean for the kids?" "It basically means that our kids will continue to be poisoned," Dr. Etzel replied. "It basically means that kids are disposable, they don't matter."

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https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-childrens-health-official-ruth-etzel-epa-kids-disposable/

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1. All voters should keep this in mind

When they vote , hopefully voting all republicans out of office for not caring about children and allowing all of this to hurt them from the republican propaganda and pollution. Just like with women , they don't care about them either. Vote!