Trump rushes to gut regulations at the expense of worker safety

[turbinetree]

Nominees to high-level positions in presidential administrations traditionally keep low profiles as they await Senate confirmation. That’s not the case with President Donald Trump’s pick to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation.

William Wehrum, a longtime industry attorney, has no qualms about representing companies fighting an Obama-era rule that protects workers from exposure to harmful silica dust as he prepares to head an EPA office with a mission to reduce air pollution. And the EPA itself sees no problem with Wehrum arguing against the new Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rule before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. His role in the silica rule court case has nothing to do with his duties at the EPA if confirmed by the Senate, an agency spokesperson told The Hill.

During Tuesday’s oral arguments, Wehrum said his clients oppose OSHA’s decision to lower the silica exposure limit for workers, telling the court “People are designed to deal with dust. People are in dusty environments all the time and it doesn’t kill them.” The lungs have a mechanism to grab onto silica dust and physiological evidence suggests the lungs of workers can handle the current limit set in 1971, he said.


https://thinkprogress.org/trump-gutting-worker-safety-4033a7673167/

Let me repeat on this thread what this asshole said, quote:

“People are designed to deal with dust. People are in dusty environments all the time and it doesn’t kill them.” The lungs have a mechanism to grab onto silica dust and physiological evidence suggests the lungs of workers can handle the current limit set in 1971, he said."

FUCK YOU, I was not designed to breath in and deal with silica dust

Stick your fucking head in bag with silica dust and tell everyone how it "feels" to breath in that shit asshole, and tell everyone if you are fucking designed to do it and deal with it...........

Your not to bright on the light scale or you zippy................

[secondwind]

1. Omg, what have we done to ourselves??

Will this nightmare ever go away?

[turbinetree]

2. These jerks should all have battery of test questions to see if they are sane

before they go in front of the committees to hold onto power, or get power, because from what I perceive to my sane world they are insane.

[jmowreader]

9. It's what we had done to us

A combination of James Comey, Russian troll farms and fundamentalist Christianity gave us this fucking nightmare.

We get a Democratic president ever again, the first two things he or she needs to do is to PNG every Russian diplomat in this country and remove the tax exemption from the churches.

[WinkyDink]

10. And announce a potload of EOs to ERADICATE THE NAME and DEEDS OF "TRUMP"!

[Snackshack]

3. Trumps

Is a modern day version of Nero. Even though republicans deny climate change I think they really do believe it and are trying to squeeze as much out of everything they can before the manure hits the proverbial Westinghouse.

[defacto7]

4. bingo...

[dalton99a]

5. There is no limit to his cruelty, depravity and greed.

[WinkyDink]

11. And stupidity mixed with indifference.

[C Moon]

6. Trump is doing everything the GOP has been wanting to do for decades and decades.

They must be so secretively giddy—McConnell may even break his skin with a full smile.

[world wide wally]

7. We need a new law...

Anything that passes through Congress through a proven liar cannot become law

[SergeStorms]

8. Well,

cigarette manufacturers swore under oath that cigarettes were not addicting or harmful in any way. People will say completely irrational and false things to further their agenda. For the GOP that agenda is always financial. Anything they can do to facilitate corporate profits (and thereby kickbacks into their pockets and campaign coffers) is their main priority. It's all about the almighty dollar. To hell with people, profits are their god.

[Hortensis]

12. Rump knows as much about silica dust as our cat. THIS ISN'T TRUMP!!!

If Rump dropped dead today, this would continue because this deregulation engine is being driven by conservative billionaires and megamillionaires who are using the Republican Party to dismantle all the progressive regulatory advances of the last century.

Rump is so incompetent that they were able to get him to put their choices in most of the positions he's actually managed to fill. Tom Price was one of their agents. Vice President Pence is another.

Pence to headline Koch network's strategy session for the midterm elections

Vice President Mike Pence will deliver the keynote address next month at a retreat in Manhattan of the conservative Koch network, as wealthy donors gather to plan political and policy strategy ahead of the 2018 midterm elections. The network, founded by billionaire industrialist Koch brothers Charles G. and David H. Koch, has close ties to Pence, which has helped enable it to exert influence in the White House despite not endorsing President Trump in 2016.

Pence held a private conversation in June with Charles Koch ahead of the group's Colorado Springs seminar with donors who pay $100,000 annual dues to attend network events. Trump's legislative director, Marc Short, previously headed the Koch-backed Freedom Partners, a chamber of commerce-style advocacy organization with an aligned political fundraising committee.

The Manhattan meeting on Oct. 12-13 will be the first in New York for the Koch donors network. Over two days, the group will focus on "shaping strategy for the upcoming Senate, House, and gubernatorial races, as well as plans to achieve important policy gains in Washington and state capitals across the country," according to a statement.

The Koch network has promised to spend up to $400 million on issues and political advocacy in support of its free-market policies during this election cycle, through its sprawling consortium of outside groups, including Americans for Prosperity and others that sometimes outpace the traditional Republican Party infrastructure.

The Koch groups, which have helped shape administrative policy, particularly on tax and regulatory reform, were poised to gain influence at the White House with the departure of top Trump advisor Stephen K. Bannon. His nativist and populist ideas sometimes clashed with the more button-downed, business-oriented group.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/washington/la-na-essential-washington-updates-vice-president-pence-to-headline-koch-1506705515-htmlstory.html

GET IT?

[Martin Eden]

13. Breath rhymes with Death

(a meme for this silica issue, while being a spelling nazi)

[lostnfound]

14. Silicosis, an occupational disease

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicosis

[spanone]

15. hey, let's bring back asbestos..according to these folks, it's good for us.