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DoomsdaysCW<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Trump</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EPA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EPA</a>’s Next Move: Making It Harder to Sue for Getting Cancer from <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Roundup" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Roundup</a> The corporation behind Roundup <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/herbicide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#herbicide</a> has paid out nearly $11 billion in lawsuits. Now it's backing an EPA rule that would stop the bleeding.by Schuyler Mitchell, March 21 2025"Last August, 11 industry-friendly red states, led by Nebraska and Iowa, submitted a 436-page petition asking the agency to amend its labeling rules under the Federal <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Insecticide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Insecticide</a>, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Rodenticide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Rodenticide</a>, and Fungicide Act, or <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FIFRA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FIFRA</a>. The proposed rule change would explicitly prohibit states from labeling <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pesticides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pesticides</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/herbicides" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#herbicides</a> with warnings about cancer, <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BirthDefects</a>, and reproductive harm if those notices contradict the EPA’s risk assessment."The states made clear that their ultimate goal is to thwart future lawsuits against pesticide manufacturers. Their petition argued that recent court rulings have created a 'gap in FIFRA’s regulatory framework' that the proposed rule change would plug."In January, in a move initiated by the Biden administration, the EPA took a first step of accepting public comment on the rule-making petition, with a deadline of March 24 — though this step is exploratory and does not mean a new rule will be issued. Still, the EPA’s decision could have disastrous consequences if Donald Trump’s second administration is as friendly to the <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ChemicalIndustry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ChemicalIndustry</a> as it was in his first. "'It’s telling of the lengths that pesticide manufacturers will go to make sure that nothing interferes with their profit margins,' said Brett Hartl, government affairs director at the Center for Biological Diversity. 'There’s a reality that the industry itself generates much of the data, and they say it’s safe, and then EPA approves that determination.”Read more: <a href="https://theintercept.com/2025/03/21/trump-epa-monsanto-roundup-bayer-cancer-chemicals/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theintercept.com/2025/03/21/trump-epa-monsanto-roundup-bayer-cancer-chemicals/</a>Archived version: <a href="https://archive.ph/VsfWE" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://archive.ph/VsfWE</a>Link for public comment: <a href="https://www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0562" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.regulations.gov/docket/EPA-HQ-OPP-2024-0562</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/KillThePoor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#KillThePoor</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Ecocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GlyphosateKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlyphosateKills</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/MonsantoKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MonsantoKills</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LandIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LandIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Pollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RunOff" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RunOff</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Cancer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Cancer</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalPollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#USPol</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigChemical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigChemical</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BigAg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BigAg</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/RoundupReady" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#RoundupReady</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Microbiota" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Microbiota</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BeeKilling" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BeeKilling</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BayerKills" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BayerKills</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/CenterForBiologicalDiversity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CenterForBiologicalDiversity</a>

Longreads"During the discovery process, another employee came forward to share a document revealing what was in the green 'frit' Yvette handled each day at work: the biggest ingredient was lead."Justine Calma for The Verge: <a href="https://longreads.com/2025/02/25/the-women-who-made-americas-microchips-and-the-children-who-paid-for-it/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://longreads.com/2025/02/25/the-women-who-made-americas-microchips-and-the-children-who-paid-for-it/</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Longreads" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Longreads</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Manufacturing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Manufacturing</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SiliconValley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SiliconValley</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Technology</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Miscarriage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Miscarriage</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Workers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Workers</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BirthDefects</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WomensHealth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHealth</a>

DoomsdaysCWEnvironmental Justice Atlas: Depleted Uranium, IraqLast update: 2017-11-17"In June 2011, the NGO Coordination Committee for Iraq (NCCI) published a report about the state of depleted uranium in Iraq stating that contamination from Depleted Uranium (DU) is strongly suspected of causing a sharp rise in congenital birth defects and cancer cases in Iraq with many prominent doctors and scientists stating that DU contamination is also connected to the recent emergence of diseases that were not previously seen in Iraq, such as illnesses in the kidney, lungs, and liver, as well as a total collapse of the immune system""Environmental Impacts - Visible: Air pollution - Potential: Soil contamination, Surface water pollution / Decreasing water (physico-chemical, biological) quality, Groundwater pollution or depletion, Genetic contamination"<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BirthDefects</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DepletedUranium</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IraqWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EndlessWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Toxic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterPollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EnvironmentalJustice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EnvironmentalJustice</a><a href="https://ejatlas.org/conflict/sadr-city-radioactive-waste-iraq" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://ejatlas.org/conflict/sadr-city-radioactive-waste-iraq</a>

DoomsdaysCWAfter the Wars in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Iraq" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Iraq</a>, ‘Everything Living is Dying’Decades of war, poverty and fossil fuel extraction have devastated the country’s <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/environment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#environment</a> and its people.By Lynzy Billing, December 29, 2021"As far back as 2005, the United Nations had estimated that Iraq was already littered with several thousand contaminated sites. Five years later, an investigation by The Times, a London-based newspaper, suggested that the U.S. military had generated some 11 million pounds of toxic waste and abandoned it in Iraq. Today, the country remains awash in hazardous materials, such as depleted <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uranium</a> and <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dioxin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dioxin</a>, which have polluted the soil and water. And extractive <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/industries" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#industries</a> like the KAR oil refinery often operate with minimal transparency. On top of all of this, Iraq is among the countries most vulnerable to climate change, which has already contributed to grinding water shortages and prolonged drought. In short, Iraq presents a uniquely <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/dystopian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#dystopian</a> tableau—one where human activity contaminates virtually every ecosystem, and where terms like '<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ecocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ecocide</a>' have special currency. "According to Iraqi physicians, the many overlapping environmental insults could account for the country’s high rates of cancer, birth defects, and other diseases. Preliminary research by local scientists supports these claims, but the country lacks the money and technology needed to investigate on its own. To get a better handle on the scale and severity of the contamination, as well as any health impacts, they say, international teams will need to assist in comprehensive investigations."<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BirthDefects</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DepletedUranium</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IraqWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EndlessWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toxic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Toxic</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterPollution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterPollution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WaterIsLife" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WaterIsLife</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuels</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/FossilFuelExtraction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FossilFuelExtraction</a> Read more: <a href="https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29122021/iraq-ecocide/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29122021/iraq-ecocide/</a>

DoomsdaysCWBirth Defects and the Toxic Legacy of War in IraqKali Rubaii 09.22.2020"Depleted uranium is one of the most widely discussed contaminants in relation to birth defects. The World Health Organization released a report in 2003 entitled 'Potential Impact of Conflict on Health in Iraq,' which suggested that depleted uranium might be related to reports of increased <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cancers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cancers</a>, birth defects, reproductive health problems and renal diseases in the Iraqi population since 2003. US bases in Iraq used burn pits to incinerate everything from computers to tires in large open-air pits that burned day and night for years."International activists accused the US Department of Defense of negligence for using a weapon in Iraq that distributes toxic waste to where civilians live, grow food and draw water. Studies of American veterans hit by friendly fire with depleted uranium shrapnel have also demonstrated links between <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/uranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#uranium</a> and perturbations in reproductive hormones, including <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/infertility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#infertility</a>."<a href="https://merip.org/2020/09/birth-defects-and-the-toxic-legacy-of-war-in-iraq/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://merip.org/2020/09/birth-defects-and-the-toxic-legacy-of-war-in-iraq/</a><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BirthDefects</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/DepletedUranium" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DepletedUranium</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/IraqWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#IraqWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/EndlessWar" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#EndlessWar</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Nuclear" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Nuclear</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/NuclearWaste" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NuclearWaste</a>

John BelmontI had a Twitter account for 9 years mainly using it to better understand new areas in science like <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/causality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#causality</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/causalinference" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#causalinference</a> . My PhD is in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/immunology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#immunology</a> which came in handy during the <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/COVID" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#COVID</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/pandemic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pandemic</a> . For 25 years or so I have been working on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/congenitalheartdisease" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#congenitalheartdisease</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/BirthDefects" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BirthDefects</a> and <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/cardiogenetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#cardiogenetics</a>

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