The EPA’s Lee Zeldin Is Unleashing a Chemical Nightmare
In the days which followed sudden floods killed more than 100 people in the center of Texas, various theories of the conspiracy circulated on the right by arguing that the storms were in fact the result of the efforts of clandestine meteorological manipulation. According to some – including the former national security advisor Mike Flynn – these deadly rains have been prepared as a way to undermine the presidency of Donald Trump. “I need someone to examine who was responsible for this,” published the former Special Forces Commander Pete Chambers, posted on X. “When the last cloud sowing?” (The sowing of the clouds – an object of long -standing fascination on the right, not to be confused with the bottle of clouds – refers to the experimental practice of the diffusion of dust particles through the clouds to trigger rain and snow, whose effects are currently far too limited to produce the magnitude of deluge which occurred during the weekend of July 4.)
Perhaps in response to these types of concerns of the world Maga, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency Lee Zeldin announced on Thursday morning an effort to “compile everything we know about trails and geo-engineering” and release it to the public. Subcontracts are condensing paths similar to clouds left by planes, called “chemitrails” to those who believe that it is signs of the government, clandestinely drugs with dangerous chemicals for population control purposes. Geo-engineering is a term of capture which often refers to various controversial methods to divert solar radiation in order to cool the surface temperature of the earth. Zeldin certainly gives chemtrail theorists more credibility than they appreciated in previous administrations, And undoubtedly concern certain theories of Crackpot as legitimate investigation lines. But resources EPA links to largely demystify marginal theories.
The real scandal, however, is not that Zeldin speaks of chemtrails, or even that the EPA seems to have devoted a certain amount of state resources to refute the more conspiratorial beliefs of the Maga coalition. In the open air, Zeldin’s EPA has demonstrated the protections against precisely the types of dangers that right -handers warn come from so -called deep state plots: Toxic chemicals and cancer cancer that companies have pressure to inject freely into our air, water, food and our bodies.
Earlier this week, for example, EPA retire A proposal from the Biden era which would require plastics produced by Chevron and other main republican donors to be free from 18 chemical contaminants. The rule was proposed in response to warnings concerning the so-called “chemical recycling” of plastics, driven by the petrochemical industry as a means of catching assembly concerns On plastic waste and its effects on human health. Among these were a substance intended to be used as “climate”Fuel jet, whose production – as The guardian and propublica reported In 2022 – would cause cancer to one in four people exhibited during their lifetime. Another plastic chemical product that Zeldin’s EPA has just moved to Greenlight is so risky that everyone exposed on a life should develop cancerAccording to a document obtained via a request for public files by Sharon Lerner from Propublica. EPA has further finished Subsidies for research on the dangers of microplastics, including a team of researchers from the University of Oregon who found that they were present in 99% of seafood Scientists sample.
