Scott Pruitt doesn't care about Americans, except, their diluted reality in gross misinformation.

I suppose if one is looking for advisers for Public Relations in the face of burgeoning cancer dangers, some of these folks might even be helpful, but, for the profound purpose of the federal US Environmental PROTECTION Agency, their talents are simply over paid baggage.

Almost all of the 46 political appointees (click here) working at EPA previously worked for climate change doubters or industry

 Climate change doubter or company in industry regulated by EPA

Full résumé for appointee available on click

Appointee

Position

Key former employers

Scott Pruitt

Administrator

Oklahoma Attorney General

Lincoln Ferguson

Senior Advisor for Operation and Implementation for the Administrator

Oklahoma Attorney General's Office

Ryan Jackson

Chief of Staff

U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

Madeline Morris

Special Assistant to the Chief of Staff

Koch Companies Public Sector

Kevin Chmielewski

Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations

58th Presidential Inaugural Committee, K.P. Kauffman Co.

Henry Darwin

Assistant Deputy Administrator and Chief of Operations

Arizona Department of Environmental Quality

Millan Hupp

Director of Scheduling and Advance

Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (Team Pruitt)

Forrest McMurray

Special Assistant for Scheduling and Advance

Tulsa Area United Way

Byron Brown

Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy

U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

Charles Munoz

White House Liaison

58th Presidential Inaugural Committee (Donald Trump)

Nancy Beck

Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention

American Chemistry Council

Sarah Greenwalt

Senior Advisor

Oklahoma Attorney General's Office

Hayley Ford

Deputy White House Liaison

WealthEngine

Nicholas A. Falvo

Special Assistant to the Senior Advisor

58th Presidential Inaugural Committee (Donald Trump)

Amanda Gunasekara

Senior Policy Advisor for Air and Radiation

U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, National Association of Chemical Distributors

Albert "Kell" Kelly

Senior Advisor to the Administrator

SpiritBank

Kenneth Wagner

Senior Advisor for Regional/ State Affairs

Oklahoma Strong Leadership Political Action Committee

Elizabeth Bowman

Associate Administrator for the Office of Public Affairs

American Chemistry Council

Jahan Wilcox

Strategic Communications Advisor

Marco Rubio for President

Alexander Dominguez

Policy Analyst to the Senior Advisor for Air and Radiation

U.S. Rep. James Renacci (R-Ohio)

John Konkus

Deputy Associate Administrator for the Office of Public Affairs

Office of the President-Elect Donald J. Trump

James Hewitt

Special Advisor for the Office of Public Affairs

Republican National Committee

Michael Abboud

Special Advisor for the Office of Public Affairs

America Rising, LLC, Donald Trump Presidential Campaign

Troy Lyons

Associate Administrator for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Relations

Hess Corp., BP America

Elizabeth Bennett

Deputy Associate Administrator

National Rural Electric Cooperatives Association, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

Aaron Ringel

Deputy Associate Administrator

Then-U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas)

Layne Bangerter

Deputy Associate Administrator

Donald Trump Presidential Campaign

K. Preston Cory

Special Assistant

U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

Kaitlyn Shimmin

Special Assistant

58th Presidential Inaugural Committee (Donald Trump)

Christian Rodrick

Special Assistant

Then-U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-Kansas), Competitive Enterprise Institute

Samantha Dravis

Asssociate Administrator for the Office of Policy

Republican Attorneys General Association

Michael Dourson*

Advisor to the Administrator

Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (clients included American Chemistry Council)

David Harlow**

Advisor

Hunton & Williams LLP

William Lovell

Policy Analyst

ExxonMobil Corp.

Brittany Bolen

Deputy Associate Administrator

U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works

Holly Greaves

Senior Advisor to the CFO

KPMG LLP

Patrick Traylor

Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance

Hogan Lovells US LLP (clients included BHP Billiton Ltd.)

Erik Baptist

Senior Deputy General Counsel

American Petroleum Institute

David Fotouhi

Deputy General Counsel

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP (clients included Tesoro Corp.)

Justin Schwab

Deputy General Counsel

Baker & Hostetler, LLP (clients included Southern Co.)

Richard Yamada

Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Research and Development

U.S. House Science, Space and Technology Committee

Patrick Davis

Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Land and Emergency Management

Donald Trump Presidential Campaign

Veronica Darwin

Senior Advisor

Arizona Department of Environmental Quality

Lee Forsgren

Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water

HBW Resources (clients included General Electric)

Daisy Letendre

‎Senior Advisor for Policy and Strategic Communications

Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.)

Susan Bodine

Senior Advisor to the Administrator

ASARCO, Inc., U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

                    

Glyphosate

The image to the left is the chemical structure of glyphosphate (click here). It is completely obvious it is an organic compound. Organic compounds can enter any living being including plants.

...One of the detrimental effects (click here) of glyphosphate on the human body is its impact on the gut.  Typically, the human digestive system contains harmless bacteria that are necessary for digestion, nutrient absorption, and play a huge part in our immune system.

Glyphosphate is killing these necessary microorganisms, contributing to potential problems like leaky gut, which compromises the protective gut lining and allows toxins and bacteria a pathway into the bloodstream.

There have also been numerous recent studies linked to increased instances of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma (click here) in farmers who work in close contact with glyphosphate.  In fact, these studies suggest that exposure nearly doubles their risk of contracting this disease.

The excessive amount of Roundup that is being poured on crops by non-organic farmers is estimated to be in the millions of pounds.  This amount is so excessive that government scientists have recently detected glyphosphate in the air and rain....

Kindly realize glyphosphate is used in Monsanto's Round-Up Herbicide. These are the scientists Pruitt dismissed from the advisory board. Can anyone guess why? Monsanto, that's why.

Besides used as a herbicide on farms and in reducing and eliminateing non-native species, glyphosphate is used on lawns, in driveways, public parks, and basically anyplace where Americans live and breath. There are findings that a trend is developing in people regularly exposed to glyphosphate.

The Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (click here) (SAP) met December 13-16, 2016, to consider a set of scientific issues being evaluated by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding EPA's evaluation of the carcinogenic potential of the herbicide glyphosate. The meeting minutes and final report from the meeting are now available.

The minutes and https://www.regulations.gov final report can be found on the FIFRA SAP web site (https://www.epa.gov/sap) and in the OPP Docket # EPA-HQ-OPP-2016-0385 (https://www.regulations.gov). EPA will review this document as well as other comments before making a final determination regarding the potential carcinogenicity of glyphosate. 

EPA is currently scheduled to publish the draft glyphosate human health and ecological risk assessments for public comment in 2017. Glyphosate is undergoing registration review, EPA's periodic review of pesticide registrations required under the law to ensure that each pesticide continues to satisfy the statutory safety standard for registration.

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Glyphosphate has been considered a very effective and safe compound. The issue with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma is that it is a 30 year study. That is the outcome to some studies detecting cancer. Initially, there is no problem, but, after 20 + years trends begin to show up and they cannot be ignored. That is what is happening now with Glyphosphate. There are trends that need to be reviewed and decisions made to insure the safety of Americans. This is some of the problem with Pruitt, he does not appreciate the sane methods of scientists that carry out peer reviewed research.

Some sources looking at glyphosphate indicate while alone the compound is safe, but when added to other compounds that create the purpose of the glyphosphate it is dangerous. (click here)

Ultimately, it is the younger generations scientists investigating these chemicals are worried about. Sometimes a 20 to 30 year study seems strange to some people, but, when considering 20 to 30 years from an exposure at this age is profound. 

There are issues with some states. California has a large agricultural community. It is seeking to limit exposure by glyphosphate. So, it is time to take a look at this from a solid scientific basis with competent scientists. 

June 26, 2017
By Karl Plume

Monsanto (click here) vowed to continue its legal fight against the designation, required under a state law known as Proposition 65, and called the decision “unwarranted on the basis of science and the law.”...

Ultimately, landfills and their gases have to be examined for their value.

Scott Pruitt is corruption through and through. The global community has no leadership in Pruitt. The USA has procedures that will uphold the rules Pruitt is trying to break, eventually.

November 9, 2017

By Juliet Eilperin

The Environmental Protection Agency (click here) proposed a rule Thursday to repeal tighter emissions standards for heavy-duty trucks with older engines, an Obama-era regulation aimed at controlling soot and other pollutants along with greenhouse-gas emissions linked to climate change.

Major trucking groups and engine manufacturers supported the 2016 rule, which was set to take full effect in January. But it was fiercely opposed by a handful of companies that manufacture truck components called gliders and trailers. A glider, or body, is the front of a truck, including the cab, which fits over the engine. Trailers are the storage components that make up most of the length of a truck.

In a statement, Pruitt — who met privately in May with Fitzgerald Truck Sales, the manufacturer that stands to benefit most from the rule’s repeal — said the rule disproportionately affected an industry that produces roughly 10,000 gliders a year. Originally intended to allow truckers to continue using engines when their vehicles had been damaged in accidents, some now buy new components to house older engines as a way of saving thousands of dollars....

Pruitt would have the entire industry behind him if he would simply uphold the rules that protects the environment. No, that would be against Pruitt's rules, "Support the underdog who has been kicked around by progress."

It is amazing to think about. Pruitt's favored company is Fitzgerald Glider Kits. They remanufacture broken down pieces of junk unfit for the road. Let's just think about that a minute.

Fitzgerald Glider Kits (click here) specializes in installing the remanufactured main components (engine, transmission and/or rear ends) from a donor truck that was either wrecked or unsafe for the road, into a new cab and chassis built by the OEM. We offer Peterbilt, Kenworth, Freightliner and Western Star Glider Kits with pre-emission Detroit, Cummins and Caterpillar engine options. This process creates a reliable, more fuel efficient truck that requires less maintenance, yields less downtime and has the safety features and amenities owners have come to expect in trucks on the road today.

Fitzgerald Glider Kits also offers one of the best nationwide warranties. I betcha it does. Fitzgerald has a record number of service ships in the world. Imagine that.

Fitzgerald Glider Kits also offers one of the best Nationwide Warranties for their kits and has over 1,000 approved service shops and over 150 Preferred Service Centers across the US.

The company is based in central Tennessee and produces more than 3,500 trucks per year. They offer various models of the Peterbilt, Kenworth, Freightliner, and Western Star brands.... 

This is nothing more than pure corruption that endangers the public for many reasons. Those seeking to comment on the "new rule" should do so.

Repeal of Emission Requirements for Glider Vehicles, Glider Engines, and Glider Kits (click here for new rule)

Regulations for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Commercial Trucks and Buses (click here)

Pruitt has no morals, he has a corrupted government spirit and it is hurting Americans.

It is Sunday Night.

"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you."

“All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them.”

“Whatever ishurtful to you, do not do to any other person.”

...From 1 August to 8 November 2017, (click here) a total of 2,034 confirmed, probable and suspected cases of plague, including 165 deaths (case fatality rate 8%), have been reported from 55 of the 114 districts in the country. Of these, 1,565 (77%) were clinically classified as pulmonary plague, 297 (15%) were bubonic plague, one was septicemic, and 171 were not yet classified (further classification of cases is in process). Since the beginning of the outbreak, 82 healthcare workers (with no deaths) have been affected.

Of the 1,565 clinical cases of pneumonic plague, 371 (24%) have been confirmed, 581 (37%) are probable and 613 (39%) remain suspected (additional laboratory results are in process). Twenty-eight specimens cultured Yersinia pestis, which were sensitive to antibiotics recommended by the National Program for the Control of Plague....

2 October 2017

...A pneumonic plague (click here) is a form of plague that is transmissible from person-to-person, with a potential to trigger severe epidemics if inadequately controlled. Detection of this outbreak occurred more than two weeks after the first case died during which cases travelled to different parts of the country, including the capital Antananarivo. Therefore, the overall risk at the national level is high. The overall regional risk is moderate due to frequent flights to neighbouring Indian Ocean islands. The global risk is low.

WHO advice
Prevention and control measures

Preventive measures include informing people when zoonotic plague is present in their environment and advising them to take precautions against flea bites and not to handle animal carcasses. The most rapid and effective method for controlling fleas is to apply an appropriate insecticide formulated as a dust or low-volume spray. People, especially health workers, should also avoid direct contact with infected tissues such as buboes, or close exposure to patients with pneumonic plague.

Important prevention and control measures are primarily intended to reduce human transmission and avoid increase in epidemic. These include:

- Advising the public to take all necessary precautions against flea bites and to not pick up or touch dead animals

- Implementing measures to control rodents hosts of Yersinia pestis (plague bacillus), especially rats

- Avoiding direct contact with infected tissues such as buboes, or close exposure to patients with pneumonic plague

- Early presentation to health care - go to the closest health center in the event of suspicious symptoms

- Health workers and people who are in direct contact with pneumonic plague patients must wear personal protective equipment

- Health workers should receive a chemoprophylaxis with antibiotics as long as they are exposed

- Safe management and burial of deceased cases

Treatment

Rapid diagnosis and treatment is essential to reduce complications and fatality. Effective treatment methods enable plague patients to be cured, if diagnosed in time. These methods include the administration of antibiotics as Aminoglycosides, Fluoroquinolones, Sulfonamides and supportive therapy....

March 17, 2017
By Natalie Huet

Lyon, France — As President Donald Trump (click here) raises the axe on U.S. medical research funding, scientists across the Atlantic are trembling, too.

The World Health Organization’s cancer agency, the France-based International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), has long been a prime purveyor of bad news. Now, with big business blasting it as fake news and Republicans in total control, U.S. funding crucial for IARC’s work is under threat.

A perfect storm is brewing. On Thursday, Trump unveiled a FY2018 budget that would chop $6 billion, or nearly 20 percent, from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). IARC’s work classifying things like bacon, plutonium and wood dust as carcinogens relies most heavily on NIH funding. The chemical lobby recently launched a campaign portraying IARC as a useless scaremonger that ignores actual human exposure to potential hazards, and U.S. lawmakers are already investigating whether taxpayers’ money should be funding its work....

2013
Dr. Christopher Wild re-elected as Director of IARC (click here)