Sharon Lerner
Appearances
Apple News Today
Biden’s controversial clemency choices
When you compare it to other toxic chemicals in the air, you can see that it causes more cancer by far than any other. And I don't mean by a little, I mean by a lot.
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Biden’s controversial clemency choices
Most of the formaldehyde inside your home and inside stores comes from things like that cheap kind of particle board stuff, which are little pieces of wood that are held together by resin that can release formaldehyde when it dries. Also scented candles and some cosmetic products.
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Biden’s controversial clemency choices
formaldehyde is incredibly useful. It can preserve dead bodies. It can fight viruses in the aquaculture. It's used in farming. It prevents pigs from getting viruses. It's like just incredibly useful, not to one industry, but to many.
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Biden’s controversial clemency choices
When I was looking into the different responses that EPA had gotten when it was attempting to regulate or at least assess the health risk from formaldehyde, I found that more than 75 trade groups had written to the agency pushing back against its efforts.
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Biden’s controversial clemency choices
He put someone into a position in the EPA who had the authority to decide what reports were put out about the toxicity of chemicals.
Apple News Today
Biden’s controversial clemency choices
This person, who had previously worked for the chemical industry defending formaldehyde, managed to kill the report.