#carcinogens

[reasonsforhope]

"California just cracked down on pollution from transportation in two major moves, part of an effort to improve air quality and cut carbon emissions at the same time. 

On Friday, the California Air Resources Board unanimously approved a rule that would ban the sale of diesel big rigs in the state by 2036. The mandate, which will apply to about 1.8 million trucks — including those operated by Amazon, UPS, and the U.S. Postal Service —  is reportedly the first in the world to require trucks to ditch internal combustion engines. The news came one day after California became the first state to adopt standards to limit pollution from trains. 

Trucks and Diesel

The regulations are intended to improve air quality and trim carbon emissions from transportation, the source of about half the state’s greenhouse gases. Trucks and trains spew diesel exhaust, full of soot that contains more than 40 cancer-causing substances, responsible for an estimated 70 percent of Californian’s cancer risk from air pollution. 

The trucking rule requires school buses and garbage trucks to be emissions-free within four years. By 2042, all trucks will be required to be “zero-emission,” meaning there’s no pollution coming out of their tailpipes. The deadline comes sooner for drayage trucks, which transport cargo from ports and railyards to warehouses — typically short routes that require less battery range. New drayage trucks must be “zero-emission” beginning next year, with the rule applying to all drayage trucks on the road in 2035. 

Currently, medium and heavy-duty vehicles account for a fifth of greenhouse gas emissions statewide. In August, California clamped down on pollution from passenger vehicles with a plan to end the sale of new gas-powered cars in the state by 2035.

People breathing pollution from freeways and warehouse hubs have long called for stricter air standards. In the port cities of Long Beach and Los Angeles, some 6,000 trucks pass through every day, exposing residents to high levels of ozone and particulate matter, pollutants linked with a range of problems including respiratory conditions and cardiovascular disease. Long Beach residents who live the closest to ports and freeways have a life expectancy about 14 years shorter compared to people who live further away...

Trains and Locomotives

According to the new rules, the state is banning locomotive engines that are more than 23 years old by 2030. It also bans trains from idling for more than 30 minutes, provided that they are equipped with an engine that can shut off automatically.

The stage for the rule was set by a single line buried in the Biden administration’s proposed auto emissions rules, in which the Environmental Protection Agency said it was considering allowing states to regulate locomotives. Still, California’s new rules may spark a legal battle with the rail industry, which argues that the state doesn’t have the authority to make such sweeping changes.

Though railroads only account for about 2 percent of the country’s carbon emissions from transportation, switching to trains powered by batteries or hydrogen fuel cells would provide some benefits in the effort to tackle climate change. The public health gains would be even bigger: The California Air Resources Board estimates its new rules for trains, passed on Thursday, would lower cancer risk in neighborhoods near rail yards by more than 90 percent.

“This is an absolutely transformative rule to clean our air and mitigate climate change,” Liane Randolph, the chair of the air quality board, said ahead of the vote on the trucking rules on Friday. “We all know there’s a lot of challenges, but those challenges aren’t going to be tackled unless we move forward … if not now, when?”"

-via The Grist, 4/28/23

#united states #california #sustainability #greenhouse gasses #carbon emissions #transportation #diesel #trains #freight train #locomotive #gavin newsom #epa #environment #cw cancer #carcinogens #public health #environmental justice #environmental racism #good news #hope

[lasseling]

Japan: Covid Shots Cause Cancer

#Japan #covidshots #Cancer #TurboCancer #ProfessorIanBrighthope #mRNAvaccines #carcinogens

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Earlier this month, a train carrying hazardous chemicals derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, triggering a massive fire and forcing everyone within a 1-mile radius of the crash to evacuate. To avoid a potential explosion, officials conducted a controlled detonation of five tankers three days later, sending carcinogenic vinyl chloride into the air. Two days later, residents of the 4,500-person village were told they could safely return home. Many questioned the safety of the air and water supply.

Since then, reporting has made clear that this environmental disaster was less a freak accident than a predictable outcome of lax safety measures and capitalist greed. Here’s what you need to know about the Norfolk Southern rail company.

NORFOLK SOUTHERN CHOSE NOT TO UPGRADE ITS TRAINS’ “CIVIL WAR-ERA” BRAKES.

A report in The Lever notes that the train that crashed in East Palestine was not equipped with Electronically Controlled Pneumatic brakes—fully electric brakes that experts say could have reduced the severity of the crash. Although Norfolk Southern once touted its use of ECP brakes, it lobbied against requiring them on trains carrying hazardous materials. An Obama-era rule required that HHFTs have ECP brakes, but the Trump administration overturned this rule.

NORFOLK SOUTHERN WORKERS DON’T GET PAID SICK TIME.

Remember when the Senate voted to avert a rail strike and deny workers sick leave? Norfolk Southern workers were among those affected. When investors encouraged Norfolk Southern to offer paid sick leave, the company said, OK, we won’t furlough people as often. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT.) has since demanded that rail companies offer workers at least seven days of paid sick leave.

RAIL COMPANIES REFUSE TO HIRE ENOUGH WORKERS.

Unions say that the rail industry’s use of furloughs to reduce the workforce stretches staff too thin. As Timothy Noah wrote in the New Republic, the 141-car train that crashed in East Palestine carried just two crew members and one trainee:

"On February 10, Anya Litvak of The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that security camera footage 20 miles short of where the derailment occurred showed a rail car axle that appeared to be on fire. Why this information was not transmitted quickly to the train crew remains unknown, but it seems likely that the answer has something to do with the number of people who were in a position to sound the alarm."

NORFOLK SOUTHERN HAS SPENT BILLIONS ON STOCK BUYBACKS.

Norfolk Southern made $4.8 billion in operating profit in 2022, More Perfect Union reported, and paid shareholders $4.7 billion in stock buybacks and dividends.

As my colleague Hannah Levintova explained last year:

"A buyback is when companies purchase shares of their own company from investors, driving up the value of the remaining stock because there are fewer shares circulating. Buybacks are taxed at the lower capital gains rate, which maxes out at 20% for the wealthiest households. But for those investors who don’t sell their shares back to the company, there’s no tax—even though the value of their holdings has increased. Until that investor sells the asset, their wealth will grow tax-free. And thanks in part to a tax code loophole that enables the wealthy to pass shares on to their heirs, who can then skip paying capital gains taxes on them altogether, buybacks play a role in building untaxed generational wealth."

THE TRAIN THAT CAUSED THE CLOUD OF SMOKE OVER EAST PALESTINE WAS NOT CATEGORIZED AS A “HIGH-HAZARD FLAMMABLE TRAIN.”

Thanks to pressure from industry lobbyists, the “high-hazard flammable train” categorization applies only to trains carrying a narrow set of materials, like crude oil, The Lever also reported. That designation would have required that the train follow specific speed and braking restrictions.

DESPITE MAKING BILLIONS IN PROFIT, NORFOLK SOUTHERN INITIALLY OFFERED JUST $25,000 TO EAST PALESTINE.

Norfolk Southern managed to scrape together $25,000 for the town that’s been doused in toxic chemicals. People who fled their homes under fear of death can claim $1,000 per person per household. Since then, the company has announced increases in charity.

#us politics #news #mother jones #2023 #east palestine #ohio #norfolk southern #vinyl chloride #carcinogens #Electronically Controlled Pneumatic brakes #railway workers #railroads #railway unions #furloughs #paid sick leave #stock buybacks #high-hazard flammable train #charity #train derailment #hazardous chemical spill #corporate greed

[ovaruling]

i recommend also reading the linked original full study (and additional studies on dairy and cancer), which was funded by the National Cancer Institute and the World Cancer Research Fund.

#speaking of soy #save #women’s health #carcinogens #and if you do read the full study read the Whole Thing

[elektroskopik]

US appeals court kills ban on plastic containers contaminated with PFAS

Republicans absolutely do not give a fuck about your health so long as it affects profitability. They don't give la shit if a company produces a product that causes health problems.

Republicans will pretend to care about mothers and fertility with their anti-abortion bullshit whilst simultaneously allowing companies to pump fertility-destroying teratogenic compounds into their products.

#environmental protection agency #epa #texas #republicans #pfas #pfas pollution #plastic #plastic products #industry #fertility #miscarriage #abortion #republican hypocrisy #united states #capitalism #corporate greed #cancer #carcinogens

[tomorrowusa]

The increasing number of wildfires is linked to the effects of climate change. The increasing presence of a carcinogen is a result of those fires.

It's widely known that wildfire smoke is bad for your health, but a group of researchers recently found a known carcinogen in California wildfire ash, raising concerns about just how harmful it could be to breathe the air near a blaze. According to a study released in Nature Communications last week, researchers discovered dangerous levels of hexavalent chromium in samples of ash left behind by the Kincade and Hennessey fires in 2019 and 2020. Workers in the manufacturing industry who've been exposed to elevated levels of hexavalent chromium,or chromium 6, have higher rates of lung cancer, according to the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences. Scott Fendorf, a professor at the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University who worked on the study, said he was shocked by the results. "Up until that point, if we had a wildfire, I was pretty cavalier about it, to be truthful. We get the alerts and I would still go outside and exercise, thinking exercise was the better factor for my health," Fendorf said. "Now it completely changes my calculation. When we start to get wildfire warnings or smoke warnings, I'm going to be wearing an N95 mask." In some affected areas, the study found that the concentration of chromium 6 was up to seven times that of unburned land. [ ... ] Metals such as chromium naturally exist in the environment, such as in rocks like serpentinite. In this case, Fendorf said, the wildfires' intense heat appears to have transformed chromium into its hexavalent state. "The fire changes a benign metal into a very toxic form of that metal," he said. Hexavalent chromium is also known as the "Erin Brockovich chemical," named for the consumer advocate whose legal battle to help a small California town affected by the compound was immortalized in a now famous film starring Julia Roberts. The Stanford team only tested ash from several areas in California, but Fendorf said the test sites contained various types of geology and vegetation, leading researchers to believe the results would be applicable to many regions across the globe. The study's findings also open the door to further investigation of possible wildfire exposure risks for other toxic metals.

The simplistic view of climate change is that Earth's thermostat is just being turned up. But as CO2 and other greenhouse gases increase, a complex series of chain reactions is taking place. The spread of hexavalent chromium is another product of those reactions.

Only one of the two major parties in the US is willing to take action on climate change. In Sean Hannity's famous dictator interview with Donald Trump, the indicted ex-president promised: "I want to drill, drill, drill".

#climate change #wildfires #serpentinite #hexavalent chromium #chromium 6 #carcinogens #scott fendorf #election 2024

[wachinyeya]

#good news #nature #science #environmentalism #plants #carcinogens #clean air #air pollution #pollution sollutions

[mumblelard]

the citgo dollar bucket holds nothing but bad decisions. the fun is discovering just how bad a decision it can be. this was the worst decision yet

#i think this is the wrong kind of glue #well played #dollar bucket #a can of numbskull and a ticket to the outer colonies #distilled disgust #carcinogens #serious callers only #snake temples #snacks #tornado warnings #neon burst #contrast enhanced computed tomography #lean #loose change #lavender #end of messages

[gwydionmisha]

#Hair Relaxers #Cancer #Carcinogens #News

[cyberhai]

When I was a small child I used to purposely burn my toast till it was black and rock hard cuz I liked the flavor. So if I get taken out before age 40 it's either by a mountain lion or cancer

#cyberhai lore #carcinogens #mm mm mm

[ancient-healer]

Over 10,000 years of GENETIC MODIFICATION is on your plate!

Any grain, bean, or leafy green is a product of HUMAN INTERVENTION! ANY fruit you can purchase is CHOCK FULL of GMOS.

If you'd like to stay away from genetically modified ingredients, you NEED to start foraging your own food. ANYTHING that can be grown by humans is genetically modified. Think about it... planting something, picking the best crop, replanting, IS genetic modification.

I'll be praying for you and yours 🙏💖

What you are speaking of is selective breeding.

Selective breeding is limited by the life cycle

of the plant and the genetic variants that are

naturally present. Selective breeding is the

process of developing a plant or animal based

on selecting desirable characteristics of the

parent. Selective breeding is the mating process

of two organisms.

Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) are

those that have had their DNA directly altered

through genetic engineering. Introducing new

genes. Genetic modification combines two

organisms that could never breed naturally.

Transgenic crops are not in harmony with

nature. GMOs have been shown to toxically

affect several organs and systems of the body.

These are not the same thing.

More than 70% of foods sold in the US are

derived from genetically modified organisms (GMOs).

Yes, it's quite a feat to eat well today and keep one's family safe from frankenfoods and murderous products. But it can be done.

#gmo #organic #selective breeding #frankenfood #gardening #agriculture #nature #cancer #allergies #monsanto #bayer #glyphosate #genetically modified #toxic foods #toxic #healthy living #carcinogens #dna #pesticide #fertilizer

[samijami]

Ok, motherfuckerz

How much of this shit do I need to kill myself

#diet coke #diet cola #coke zero #cola zero #carcinogens #coke bottle #coke can #coca cola #zero sugar #carcinogenic #tw sui implied #tw sui talk #tw sui ideation #tw sui joke #tw su1cide #suic1de #su1c1d4l #su1c1dal #su1c1d3 #tw mention of suicide #su1cide #suicudal #tw triggers #triggering content #triggering themes #possibly triggering #triggering stuff #trigger warning #dark humour #dark humor

[orionsangel86]

I saw your tags of the Diet Coke and Destiel meme. I’ve been off of sugar completely (aside from natural fruit sugars and even then mainly only red skinned fruit) for about 8 years now and I’ve been hearing a lot that Stevia actually isn’t all that wonderful for you either. It’s still considered to be better, but I’d be cautious with how much you use since there have been some studies done about the effects it has on gut health.

Another alternative that can be used is Monk fruit. I don’t know for sure if you can find versions of it at the store that doesn’t have a bunch of erythritol added to it. But as far as I’m aware, there hasn’t been any evidence that is in support of it causing any sort of harm, unlike stevia.

Hey, thanks! Yeah I have to avoid too much sugar as well given my weight and family history of diabetes so its a pain because I have a sweet tooth.

I didn't know that stevia had any concerning elements to it so thanks for the heads up. Ill look into it. I guess my view is everything in moderation because at the end of the day, anything in excess can cause huge health problems. Heck, that post is about carcinogens and yet doesnt mention that the biggest carcinogen of them all is oxygen. OXYGEN. The stuff we need to breath and live!

So i try not to worry about carcinogens too much because at the end of the day, cancer is an evil bitch that will get 1 in 2 or 50% of us in our lifetimes. We just gotta hope that the type we get will be easily treated.

I will look into monk fish though. Thanks!

#cancer for ts #carcinogens #artificial sweeteners

[dontmeantobepoliticalbut]

Norfolk Southern has agreed to a $600 million settlement to resolve a class action lawsuit related to the train derailment in East Palestine, Ohio, in February 2023.

The settlement still needs to be approved by a judge.

"If approved by the court, the agreement will resolve all class action claims within a 20-mile radius from the derailment and, for those residents who choose to participate, personal injury claims within a 10-mile radius from the derailment," Norfolk Southern said in a statement.

The spill forced hundreds of nearby residents out of their homes and sparked fears, as five tankers carried vinyl chloride, which posed serious health risks, burned, sending a massive plume of black smoke into the sky. Burning vinyl chloride can create dioxins, which are carcinogenic, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Two days after the crash, residents were evacuated over fears the tankers could explode. The evacuation order was lifted on Feb. 9, with the EPA saying the air had returned to normal levels.

Norfolk Southern outlined how the settlement will be split up: $104 million for community assistance, including $25 million for a regional safety center, $21 million for a park, $21 million in direct payments to residents and $9 million to first responders; $4.3 million to improve water infrastructure; $2 million for "community-directed projects"; and a $500,000 grant for economic development.

"The agreement is designed to provide finality and flexibility for settlement class members," the company wrote. "Individuals and businesses will be able to use compensation from the settlement in any manner they see fit to address potential adverse impacts from the derailment. This could include healthcare needs and medical monitoring, property restoration and diminution, and compensation for any net business loss."

No one was injured in the derailment itself, but residents of the area have complained about a variety of nagging health issues in the months after the crash.

Ashley McCollum, a resident of East Palestine who lived in a hotel for a year after the derailment and chemical leak, told ABC News earlier this year that her family has experienced issues including "rashing, numbness and tingling in your mouth, ear pain, blood in your ears, hair loss."

The National Transportation Safety Board released a preliminary report from its ongoing investigation into the derailment two weeks after the crash, saying surveillance video showed "what appeared to be a wheel bearing in the final stage of overheat failure moments before the derailment." NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy called the derailment "100% preventable," and said it was "no accident."

The plaintiffs in the case released a joint statement saying the settlement "will provide substantial compensation to all affected residents, property owners, employees and businesses residing, owning or otherwise having a legal interest in property, working, owning or operating a business for damages resulting from the derailment and release of chemicals."

"We believe this is a fair, reasonable and adequate result for the community on a number of levels, not the least of which is the speed of the resolution, and the overall amount of the awards residents can expect, which will be significant for those most impacted by the derailment," said Seth A. Katz of Burg Simpson Eldredge Hersh & Jardine, M. Elizabeth Graham of Grant & Eisenhofer, Jayne Conroy of Simmons Hanly Conroy, and T. Michael Morgan of Morgan & Morgan.

#us politics #news #ohio #east palestine #norfolk southern #train derailment #class action lawsuit #vinyl chloride #dioxins #carcinogens #Environmental Protection Agency #2024 #abc news #National Transportation Safety Board #Jennifer Homendy

[planetdolan]

I got diet coke time for the karkat smoothie

#carcinogens #diet coke #watch out

[disheveleddiva]

Fluoride meme

#fluorosis #fluoride #water safety #time for a drink...[ooc] #health #health and wellness #science #government #dark humor #libertarian #memes #dank memes #fresh memes #oc #cancer #carcinogens #brush your teeth #unpopular thoughts #cavities