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FEMA Gassed Katrina Survivors

So many of the people ... were underprivileged anyway, so this is working very well for them.-- Barbara Bush Well, except for the poison gas, Babs.The latest bombshell from the cesspool of Republican...

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FEMA's Toxic Trailers; Lead Plaintiff Dies of Lung Cancer

At a hearing this morning of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, investigators released internal e-mails indicating FEMA lawyers rejected environmental testing fearing the agency would...

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FEMA Formaldehyde --(new cartoon)

Hello friends, Today's original Headzup cartoon deals with FEMA's employees being barred from entering the trailers of the victims of Hurrican Katrina, due to formaldehyde.

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Sunday Cartoon Roundup

Hello friends and welcome to the weekly roundup of this week's original Headzup cartoons. What do we have this week? Do we have Rudy Giuliani and his health care hypocracy? We do. How about Dana Perino...

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More Abuse for the People of New Orleans from FEMA

The abuse of New Orleans and gulf coast residents post Katrina is well documented, neglect, incompetence, and indifference are about the politest descriptions one can come up with.  The latest just...

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Updated- GOP Rep: "Businesses won't want our money if we don't let them...

And the hits just keep coming.After years of government officials feigning ignorance on just how harmful FEMA trailers were for Katrina victims, Democrats investigating the formaldehyde levels in these...

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Deregulation!: Legal carcinogens in baby products

The age of rampant deregulation isn't just a financial issue.  You and your kids are probably bathing in carcinogens.  And it's all legal.A report by the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics and the Alliance...

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The Politics of Formaldehyde: As goes Calif., so goes the U.S.

Cross-posted at DK Greenroots.After Hurricane Katrina, tens of thousands of families from Louisiana and Mississippi, displaced by the storm that destroyed their homes, were placed in trailers provided...

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A DEMOCRATIC legislative & regulatory WIN you didn't know about

Cross-posted at Eclectablog.com.Last October, I wrote about freshman Senator Amy Klobuchar's bill to regulate formaldehyde emissions from engineered wood panels. These are the panels used to build our...

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Thank you President Obama from a long frustrated whistle blower  

Americans shouldn't have to applaud when their government does something right. Americans should expect that kind of competence from their government. Needed changes in chemical safety have been...

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Corporate Control Over "Science," Over "Research," Over "News" Releases

The Corporate Control over "Science,""Research" and the Altering of the Facts in the News

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Conservatives think *Liberals* are naive, Utopian dreamers? Please.

On September 13th, I attended a town-hall meeting with Rep. Betty McCollum (D). Not surprisingly, the Q & A segment of the program was dominated by Tea Party plants from outside McCollum's...

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Weekly Pulse: Single-Payer Bills Pass Vermont Senate, House

By Lindsay Beyerstein, Media Consortium bloggerThe Vermont state Senate passed legislation to create a single-payer health insurance system, Paul Waldman reports for TAPPED. Since the state House has...

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Formaldehyde James Imhof and the Four Dogs of the Chemical Industry

This news that Formaldehyde has been added to the List of Known Carcinogens has a special personal significance to me. You see I suffered debilitating migraines for YEARS from working in an area where...

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Help a friend of mine STOP MONSANTO

It is important to make Monsanto responsible for LYING to the EPA about the fact that its product, ROUNDUP, contains aldehydes.

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WHO knew that carcinogens had their own lobby in Washington?

The title of this post is the 1st line of The Cancer Lobby, Sunday's New York Times column by Nicholas Kristof.He uses the example of formaldehyde, describing our various encounters with it, and...

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Corporations vs. The Truth on Cancer

The difference between liberalism and conservatism is really about power. Whose power do those in government serve? Do they serve the interests of corporations, or the common good. Simple as that.Nick...

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