#DeathCamas - all parts of plant are #toxic & shouldn't be handled. Only bee that can tolerate its toxins is the specialist mining bee. Toxic to animals, especially sheep. Humans have been poisoned after ingesting bulbs; kids have been poisoned after ingesting flowers & flower buds.
"What Hansen didn’t know was that 3M had already conducted animal studies — two decades earlier. They had shown PFOS to be toxic, yet the results remained secret, even to many at the company."
Commercial companies have institutionalised fooling people, by dismissing their profit is bad for peoples' health while they already know that in fact it is.
It is criminal and should be treated as such.
#Philadelphia jurors hit #ExxonMobil with a $725.5 million verdict for failing to warn that the company’s #gasolina contained #benzene, a #toxic chemical linked to a car mechanic's leukemia.
This is so many levels of fucked up by government. They are selling invasive species to unaware citizens. This should be #ILLEGAL. The more #daphne spreads, the more this #corrupt BC NDP govt will use that as justification to spray more #toxic#glysophates over forests & more greenspaces!
10 Times as Much of This #Toxic Pesticide Could End Up on Your #Tomatoes and Celery Under a New #EPA Proposal
Against the guidance of scientific advisory panels, the EPA is relying on industry-backed tests to relax regulations on acephate, which has been linked to neurodevelopmental disorders.
“It’s exactly what we recommended against,” one panelist said.
It's disturbing when 1/2 of the options are so politically poor that citizens feel forced to #vote for the only viable option remaining.
Americans are moving past the #disfunction of #republicans and simultaneously disturbed that 1/2 of their options are so politically #toxic, they feel forced to vote for #Democrats.
In a #democracy, no one enjoys being forced to do anything. #Biden still wins. #Trump #election2024 #2024Election
Responders have currently found ‘no immediate threat’, but 14 of at least 56 containers carrying #contaminants were destroyed
by Dharna Noor in Baltimore
Sat 30 Mar 2024
"In the meantime, more containers could fall into the water, including ones the NTSB says contain corrosive chemicals and #Lithium-ion batteries – materials that could leak #toxic#HeavyMetals into the water. And as long as the ship remains in the water, the possibility of the ship’s fuel container rupturing remains."
The United States #Senate, in its current #toxic#senescence, offers a great deal to loathe. Its members posture and bluster and never do anything or leave; the ubiquity of the filibuster during Mitch McConnell’s time atop the institution ran it into a state of permanent brownout long before McConnell himself started powering-down like C-3PO during public appearances. Nothing works, nothing happens; as a general rule, the most action in the Senate is either when it pulls together to deliver itself of a 3000-page omnibus funding bill once per year or when one of the chamber’s many grandiose octogenarians seems notably closer to death than usual. With the filibuster’s supermajority threshold making regular business impossible, there is nothing left but a competition between variously exhausting aesthetics.
Toxic plant of the day. Castor-oil plant, Ricinis communis. Highly toxic to both pets and humans. Yet, humans grow these ornamentally, plus for Industrial use. #toxic#plants#danger
French recycling plant on fire housing 900 tonnes of lithium batteries
Reuters, February 19, 2024
"#Lithium batteries are vital in electrical devices from #phones to electric cars (#EVs), but contain combustible materials which, combined with the energy they store, can make them vulnerable to catching fire when exposed to heat - a potential danger given the #toxic materials their burning can emit."
The #NHScrisis takes many forms... and #toxic management & staff relations is one (more).
In a defunded, stressed #healthservice, with staff burning out & over-worked (due to unfilled jobs), we can expect inter-personal relations to become strained (to say the least).
In this case, a #female#doctor was driven to take her own life, triggered by a delay in removing herself from a toxic work environment.
Whatever the local issues, behind this is (still) #tory wrecking!
*s.o. recently posted a newspaper 📰 article from the previous turn of the century and how 🤔 the burning 🔥 of fossil fuels would lead to #GlobalWarming (in my words)
"Look what these wonderful ideas did to our house... Asbestos worked the miracle. J-M Asbestos Roofing Shingles and J-M Asbestos Siding Shingles. Charming as weathered wood; fire-, weather- and wear-proof."