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    1. mom
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      Don't worry, we'll just get it to the front page :)

      Don't worry, we'll just get it to the front page :)

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  2. guamisc
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    Pretty inflammatory, but I have a hard time seeing where this article is wrong.

    “If the administration was really keen on protecting public health, why wouldn’t they send this to the National Academy and give it a really good review?” the former EPA official asked. “If it survives that review, then there’s a public health problem that needs to be dealt with, and if it doesn’t survive the review, then they can point the finger at IRIS and say, ‘You’re dead.’”

    The former official said there would be only one reason not to ask the country’s top experts whether they agree with the analysis: “You don’t want the answer.”

    Pruitt is, of course, gone; his personal corruption having become too much of a distraction from his agency’s vital mission of helping the Republican Party’s donors evade financial responsibility for poisoning Americans.

    But that mission is safe in the hands of the EPA’s new acting director, Andrew Wheeler. As staff director for the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee in 2004, Wheeler worked to delay an earlier version of the EPA’s formaldehyde analysis – and went on to profitable career as chemical industry lobbyist.

    Pretty inflammatory, but I have a hard time seeing where this article is wrong.

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    captain_cardinal
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    Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen (as explained by this National Cancer Institute page). I'm curious what levels are dangerous, though. That's where the review by the National Academy of Science...

    Formaldehyde is a known carcinogen (as explained by this National Cancer Institute page). I'm curious what levels are dangerous, though. That's where the review by the National Academy of Science would be useful.

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    1. moriarty
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      It doesn't specify, but from the politico article:

      It doesn't specify, but from the politico article:

      The Trump administration is suppressing an Environmental Protection Agency report that warns that most Americans inhale enough formaldehyde vapor in the course of daily life to put them at risk of developing leukemia and other ailments, a current and a former agency official told POLITICO

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  4. Yudhayvavhay
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    I don't doubt it considering both the EPA chief that resigned or his replacement have zero consideration for health or the environment.

    I don't doubt it considering both the EPA chief that resigned or his replacement have zero consideration for health or the environment.

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