The only thing new is the blatancy of their lies

| February 2, 2024

Was originally going to cover administration lies, but there are only so many columns available and time in a day week month year life. Since Steve nicely covered LSOS Joe’s most recent falsehood, and thebesig talked about them trying to enact universal background checks by fiat, let’s talk about the environment.

Environment Subcommittee Chair Max Miller, R-Ohio, and Space and Aeronautics Subcommittee Chair Brian Babin, R-Texas, penned a letter Wednesday to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan, requesting more information about his agency’s actions preceding the Department of Justice’s lawsuit against synthetics manufacturer Denka Performance Elastomer (DPE) in early 2023.

The federal lawsuit seeks to compel DPE’s manufacturing facility in LaPlace, Louisiana, to massively reduce its emissions of the chemical chloroprene in accordance with the standard determined to be safe by a 2010 study.

“Officials in EPA’s Office of Research and Development may have violated scientific integrity policies by influencing EPA’s Region 6 Office to withdraw a request for a scientific review of the cancer risk assessment in the 2010 Toxicology Review of Chloroprene under EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System Program,” Miller and Babin wrote in their letter to Regan.

The lawmakers’ letter cites a Fox News Digital report which uncovered deposition testimony from Michael Morton, who serves as EPA Region 6 science liaison to ORD, stating that he didn’t author a July 2021 email sent from his email address to federal officials calling off a review of chloroprene. Months earlier, in April 2021, Region 6 nominated chloroprene for review to revisit its assessment of the chemical’s health risks.

Morton told defense lawyers representing DPE in the lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice during deposition in November that he was unaware of who authored the email sent from his email address.

“I didn’t write that,” Morton told counsel. “I didn’t say that. For – for that part, I didn’t – I don’t know that, so I don’t know who wrote that,” he added when pressed on the July 2021 email.

So, in other words, they are basing their actions to shut down this plant on a forged mail from an EPA official that they themselves wrote.

“Based on this evidence alone, it appears that ORD officials, in an apparent effort to build a fabricated scientific record, authored the email withdrawing the request for scientific review on behalf of Region 6, which had previously determined a scientific review necessary,” Miller and Babin continued in their letter. “This practice is otherwise known as ‘ghostwriting.'”

“Additionally, because this ghost-written email was sent several weeks after the chloroprene nomination was rejected, the actions undertaken by ORD officials appear to be a retroactive attempt to provide scientific rationales and may have been an action to silence scientific opinions of chloroprene that differ from the Agency’s public position,” they wrote.

Fox News

Meanwhile, if the Justice Department’s lawsuit is successful, it could threaten the future operations of the DPE’s LaPlace facility — the so-called Pontchartrain Works Site which represents the only U.S. plant to produce neoprene, a synthetic rubber common in military equipment, wetsuits and medical technology — and set a precedent broadly threatening the multi-billion-dollar U.S. petrochemical industry.

Yeah, because we really don’t use or need neoprene anywhere…

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HT3

My belief in the Federal Government really took a hit with the WMD farce in Iraq. Barry really made it worse when he staffed the government with ideologues. The coordinated assault on Trump by all facets of the DC Swamp since has only reinforced those beliefs. I just assume everything that comes out is a lie. How many times do they caught, and nothing changes?

KoB

How many times do they caught, and nothing changes?” Every time, HT3.

My distrust of the Feds goes back to the JFK murder…and has only gotten worse since then. And about the only truth we’ve had from prezzy sniffy creepy is when he said “It’s going to get worse.”

Prepare

5JC

Eisenhower had it right. After World War II The government was simply too powerful.

USMC Steve

And that occurred under the socialist democrats. No surprise there.

JustALurkinAround

This goofy country was screwed the instant they took kids out of the coal mines and fought against the 169 hour work week.

Fuck these fucks.

Roh-Dog

So, incompetent and control freaks?
Didn’t we know that already?

You wanna see something even more spectacular of a fuck up? Allow me to introduce you to the Bureau of Labor Statistics now year-long flagrant data manipulation!

It’s almost like there’s a group of individuals that will, unrestrained, subsume more power until they have supremacy in all things. Thus is history, therefor future.

“If you like your [access to wet suits] you get to keep your [wet suit].” –Mooshell 0bama’s prison wife

Old tanker

If it is going to harm the nation, economy, readiness or just life as we know it, this administration will be all for it. American last and they no longer even hide it.

JustALurkinAround

Won’t someone please think of the children?