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(DIR) Post #Ai5ZHp0Dqr2FEGtpGC by divya@sfba.social
2024-05-20T15:16:28Z
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Reading the PFAS bombshell from ProPublica. I know this has nothing to do with nuclear power generation but this is exactly the story of workplace violence found in nuclear power plants like GE's. This is also why I am anti-nuclear power plants. ". They told Hodge only part of what they knew: that PFOS had sickened and even killed laboratory animals and had caused liver abnormalities in factory workers."https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story
(DIR) Post #Ai5ZHqIh1fP7FqY5gm by divya@sfba.social
2024-05-20T15:18:21Z
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Congrats to everyone wanting "development" "Then they ran an overnight test on blood that had been collected in rural China during the ’80s and ’90s. If any place were PFOS-free, she figured, it would be somewhere remote, where 3M products weren’t in widespread use.The next morning, anxious to see the results, Hansen arrived at the lab before anyone else. For the first time since she had begun testing blood, some of the samples showed no trace of PFOS."
(DIR) Post #Ai5ZHrlnYwHPoPAqh6 by divya@sfba.social
2024-05-20T15:20:41Z
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The villain here is still alive and in his 80s and claims to have a faulty memory. I really want to make a wall of climate villains who look like "average" white person but whose decisions echo through the walls of history
(DIR) Post #Ai5ZHs3WV2SShNT0K0 by divya@sfba.social
2024-05-20T15:23:16Z
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Congrats to the toothless EPA "In 2006, after the EPA accused 3M of violating the Toxic Substances Control Act, in part by repeatedly failing to disclose the harms of fluorochemicals promptly, the company agreed to pay a small penalty of $1.5 million, without admitting wrongdoing."
(DIR) Post #Ai5ZHse2JHfIWcYAEa by divya@sfba.social
2024-05-20T15:25:03Z
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John Oliver is a white man who is 100% going to heaven"Then, in 2021, John Oliver did a segment on his comedy news show, “Last Week Tonight,” about forever chemicals. The segment, which mentioned my reporting, said that they could cause cancer, immune-system issues and other problems. “The world is basically soaked in the Devil’s piss right now,” Oliver said. “And not in a remotely hot way.” One of Hansen’s former professors sent her the segment, and Hansen watched it at her kitchen table — a moment that would eventually lead her to me."
(DIR) Post #Ai5ZHtRfKlMd0Xlnai by divya@sfba.social
2024-05-20T15:27:47Z
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Some proof Academia *never* did want to rock the boat of capitalism`“I’m sort of kicking myself for not having followed up on this more, but I didn’t have any research money,” Guy told me. He eventually became a dentist to support his wife and family. (He died this year at 81.) Taves, too, left the field, to become a psychiatrist, and the trail ended there.`
(DIR) Post #Ai5ZHuG0Jbd7WfK03M by divya@sfba.social
2024-05-20T15:32:24Z
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This is actually a really good movie with Meryl Streep and Kurt Russell and a good watch to understand why nuclear plants are dangerous. "In the 1983 film “Silkwood,” which is based on real events, Karen Silkwood, a worker at a plutonium plant, assembles a thick folder documenting her employer’s shoddy safety practices; while driving to share them with a reporter, she dies in a mysterious one-car crash."
(DIR) Post #Ai5ZHusdzwXRSVOrHU by divya@sfba.social
2024-05-20T15:34:18Z
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`A team of New York University researchers estimated in 2018 that the costs of just two forever chemicals, PFOA and PFOS — in terms of disease burden, disability and health-care expenses — amounted to as much as $62 billion in a single year. This exceeds the current market value of 3M.`https://www.propublica.org/article/3m-forever-chemicals-pfas-pfos-inside-story