* | Songkhla, Hat Yai, Thailand: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 11 May 2018
* | Songkhla, Hat Yai, Thailand: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 11 May 2018
* | Songkhla, Hat Yai, Thailand: photo by Sakulchai Sikitikul, 11 May 2018
Untitled [Old Savannah, Augusta, Georgia]: photo by m. wriston, 11 May 2018
Untitled [Old Savannah, Augusta, Georgia]: photo by m. wriston, 11 May 2018
Untitled [Old Savannah, Augusta, Georgia]: photo by m. wriston, 11 May 2018
Might rain [California desert]: photo by Andrew Murr, 1 June 2018
Morning [Joshua Tree National Park, CA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 28 May 2018
Century plant rose house [Silver Lake, LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 6 June 2018
The corrugated curtain [eastside LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 26 May 2018
Beauty on Western [Western Ave., Hollywood]: photo by Andrew Murr, 27 May 2018
Beauty on Western [Western Ave., Hollywood]: photo by Andrew Murr, 27 May 2018
Raspberry windows [eastside LA]: photo by Andrew Murr, 30 May 2018
Sutro Bath ruins [San Francisco]: photo by Andrew Murr, 4 June 2018
Chain link view [Gower, Hollywood]: photo by Andrew Murr, 30 May 2018
Untitled [TN]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 7 May 2013
Untitled [TN]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 7 May 2013
Untitled [TN]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 7 May 2013
Consume: photo by JustDeBugging, 27 May 2018
Consume: photo by JustDeBugging, 27 May 2018
Consume: photo by JustDeBugging, 27 May 2018
Untitled [TN]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 7 May 2013
Untitled [TN]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 7 May 2013
Untitled [TN]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 7 May 2013
Untitled [Arkansas]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 12 March 2018
Untitled [Arkansas]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 12 March 2018
Untitled [Arkansas]: photo by Beerbrain/Ronny Perry, 12 March 2018
Untitled [Bayvale, Augusta, Georgia]: photo by m. wriston, 6 May 2018
Untitled [Bayvale, Augusta, Georgia]: photo by m. wriston, 6 May 2018
Untitled [Bayvale, Augusta, Georgia]: photo by m. wriston, 6 May 2018
Untitled [Northwood, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, January 2017
Untitled [Northwood, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, January 2017
Untitled [Northwood, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, January 2017
Untitled [Northwood, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, January 2017
Untitled [Northwood, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, January 2017
Untitled [Northwood, Baltimore]: photo by Patrick, January 2017
Mini Manger Scene, Lit | Dyker Heights, Brooklyn: photo by Alexander Rabb, 20 December 2012
Mini Manger Scene, Lit | Dyker Heights, Brooklyn: photo by Alexander Rabb, 20 December 2012
Consume: photo by JustDeBugging, 27 May 2018
Consume: photo by JustDeBugging, 27 May 2018
Consume: photo by JustDeBugging, 27 May 2018
Captive: photo by JustDeBugging, 20 May 2018
Captive: photo by JustDeBugging, 20 May 2018
Captive: photo by JustDeBugging, 20 May 2018
A man stands along the sea front as monsoon clouds gather over the skyline of Mumbai, #India Photo @punitpix: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 7 June 2018
A girl holds a baby outside a plastic factory along a canal that leads to the Buriganga river, one of the most polluted rivers in the country due to rampant dumping of industrial and human waste Photo @Allison_Joyce: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 7 June 2018
A relative of a Palestinian, who was killed by Israeli troops, reacts at a hospital in Ramallah Photo Mohamad Torokman: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 7 June 2018
What’s so royal, and the more stinging dig, is the riff off the famous (and famously austere) @PeteSouza #Obama inauguration day portrait. @TonkaO'Brien: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 7 June 2018
What’s so royal, and the more stinging dig, is the riff off the famous (and famously austere) @PeteSouza #Obama inauguration day portrait. @TonkaO'Brien: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 7 June 2018
Pinhead Grifter For Christ Scott Pruitt: photo by Greg Nash via The Hill 7 June 2018
Politico reported Thursday that Pruitt's frequent use of the restaurant prompted the warning during a Cabinet meeting last year, adding that there were only a few tables available in the Navy-run restaurant open to White House officials and Cabinet members.
A source close to Pruitt told the news outlet that the message for the EPA chief at the meeting was clear: “We love having Mr. Pruitt, but it’s not meant for everyday use.”
Allies to [sic] Pruitt disputed to Politico that he was the sole culprit who prompted the warning, but did not challenge the assertion that Pruitt visited the restaurant frequently.
While Pruitt frequently used the restaurant, Politico notes that prices at the restaurant run cheaper than other D.C. restaurants, serving steaks for $10.25 and burgers for just more than $6.
Calendars also showed that Pruitt frequently invited guests to dine with him, enjoying specialty dishes such as skirt steaks and a dessert known as the "Chocolate Freedom," which was also known to be a favorite of Obama administration officials.
Pruitt has been the subject of several scandals over the past few months and saw two top aides resign this week over concerns about seeing their names in headlines connected to the EPA's troubles.
Among other investigations, the EPA chief is accused of going around the White House to approve raises for top aides and renting a condo co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist.
* : photo by Audsadang Satsadee, 5 June 2018
#07: photo by Piti Dui, 5 June 2018
#07: photo by Piti Dui, 5 June 2018
#07: photo by Piti Dui, 5 June 2018
In his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, Trump argued that the association of the chemical with health risks was part of a mob-created conspiracy. “I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal. Great pressure was put on politicians, and as usual, the politicians relented,” he wrote.
The Trump EPA's decision came in response to new amendments made to the Toxic Substances Control Act in 2016. The additions to the bill mandate that the EPA perform safety reviews of certain chemicals, require testing and public notice of safety info for said chemicals and allow the EPA to ban certain uses of asbestos (previously, the EPA did not have the authority to do so).
The EPA announced last Friday that it would evaluate and require approval for new uses of asbestos but would not evaluate the health risks of asbestos already in the environment.
“The end result will be a seriously inadequate risk evaluation that fails to address major contributors to the heavy and growing toll of asbestos mortality and disease in the United States,” said Linda Reinstein, president of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization in a statement.
Reinstein, whose husband developed Mesothelioma and passed away in 2006, told Newsweek that she met with Nancy Beck, deputy assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, on two occasions along with representatives from the AFL-CIO and the International Association of Fire Fighters. The group explained the hazards of legacy asbestos and presented over 100 studies confirming that low-dose asbestos exposure caused disease, but were shut down by Beck, she said. Beck was previously a senior director at the American Chemistry Council, a lobbyist group that represents Dow Chemical, DuPont, Monsanto and ExxonMobil Chemical.
“If you don’t evaluate the dangerous legacy of asbestos you don’t know how much contamination still exists in the United States,” Reinstein told Newsweek. “We know it’s in our homes, schools, workplace and environment but the average American can’t identify and evaluate the risk. We have taken risk evaluation off the table.”
The bipartisan updates made to the Toxic Substances Control Act by Congress were intended to give the EPA the ability to ban the use of these substances, some senators say. The environmental agency attempted to ban the use in 1989, but a federal court ruled that it lacked the authority to do so.
“In a bipartisan compromise, Congress moved to patch up the holes in our chemical review system when it updated the Toxic Substances Control Act. But Scott Pruitt and the Trump administration are presiding over an attack on not just the spirit, but also the actual content of the reform law,” said Senator Edward J. Markey, a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, in a statement. “Thousands of people die from asbestos-related cancers every year. Asbestos and other toxic substances will continue to contaminate our environment because Trump administration policies are contaminating the EPA.”
There's a lack of basic information in the United States about the extent to which public and private structures are contaminated by the chemical. A recent report found that the government has no record of how many schools contain asbestos materials.
“EPA’s refusal to address longstanding concerns around the use and disposal of asbestos is further proof that Administrator Pruitt will bend over backwards to help industry, but won’t lift a finger to protect public health,” said Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
The EPA did say that it would take unprecedented action on asbestos by requiring new manufacturers and importers of asbestos to receive EPA approval before importing or processing the chemical. Reinstein, however, said that this is not a ban and that the largest users of asbestos will continue to use it.
Fifty-five countries including Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Israel and Japan have completely banned asbestos use. The White House referred Newsweek to the EPA and the EPA did not respond to a request for comment.
Boston Red Sox left fielder Brock Holt plays a double by Tampa Bay Rays designated hitter Corey Dickerson off the wall during fourth inning of a baseball game in Boston: photo by Charles Krupa/AP, 21 April 2016
Boston Red Sox left fielder Brock Holt plays a double by Tampa Bay
Rays designated hitter Corey Dickerson off the wall during fourth inning
of a baseball game in Boston: photo by Charles Krupa/AP, 21 April 2016
A man stands along the sea front as monsoon clouds gather over the skyline of Mumbai, #India Photo @punitpix: image via Aurelia BAILLY @AureliaBAILLY, 7 June 2018
A girl holds a baby outside a plastic factory along a canal that leads to the Buriganga river, one of the most polluted rivers in the country due to rampant dumping of industrial and human waste Photo @Allison_Joyce: image via Getty Images News @GettyImagesNews, 7 June 2018
A relative of a Palestinian, who was killed by Israeli troops, reacts at a hospital in Ramallah Photo Mohamad Torokman: image via Reuters Pictures @reuterspictures, 7 June 2018
What’s so royal, and the more stinging dig, is the riff off the famous (and famously austere) @PeteSouza #Obama inauguration day portrait. @TonkaO'Brien: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 7 June 2018
What’s so royal, and the more stinging dig, is the riff off the famous (and famously austere) @PeteSouza #Obama inauguration day portrait. @TonkaO'Brien: image via Reading The Pictures @ReadingThePix, 7 June 2018
Pinhead Grifter For Christ Scott Pruitt: photo by Greg Nash via The Hill 7 June 2018
White House asked Pruitt not to eat lunch at West Wing mess hall so often: report: John Bowden, The Hill, 7 June 2018
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scot Pruitt used the White House mess hall so often that Cabinet members were
warned not to treat the exclusive restaurant as their personal dining
hall.
Politico reported Thursday that Pruitt's frequent use of the restaurant prompted the warning during a Cabinet meeting last year, adding that there were only a few tables available in the Navy-run restaurant open to White House officials and Cabinet members.
A source close to Pruitt told the news outlet that the message for the EPA chief at the meeting was clear: “We love having Mr. Pruitt, but it’s not meant for everyday use.”
Allies to [sic] Pruitt disputed to Politico that he was the sole culprit who prompted the warning, but did not challenge the assertion that Pruitt visited the restaurant frequently.
Documents obtained by Politico show that Pruitt dined
at the White House restaurant, located in the basement next to the
situation room, nine times over the course of July 2017, racking up a
bill of about $400.
While Pruitt frequently used the restaurant, Politico notes that prices at the restaurant run cheaper than other D.C. restaurants, serving steaks for $10.25 and burgers for just more than $6.
Calendars also showed that Pruitt frequently invited guests to dine with him, enjoying specialty dishes such as skirt steaks and a dessert known as the "Chocolate Freedom," which was also known to be a favorite of Obama administration officials.
Pruitt has been the subject of several scandals over the past few months and saw two top aides resign this week over concerns about seeing their names in headlines connected to the EPA's troubles.
Among other investigations, the EPA chief is accused of going around the White House to approve raises for top aides and renting a condo co-owned by the wife of a top energy lobbyist.
* : photo by Audsadang Satsadee, 5 June 2018
No Punishment Can Be Strong Enough To Deter The insane Environmental Believers. Do They Think The Earth Belongs To Future Generations Or To The Rightful Owners Big Energy And Jesus And If So, Let's Cut Through The BS And Just Go Ahead And Build That Wall For Jesus! And Then Let's Build Another One For Big Energy So Everybody Can Have A Wall 'Cause This Is Murica! And Then Let's Dump All Our Toxic Waste Over It And If Any Of It Spills Or Drifts Or Blows Back Our Way, Let's Have a Celebration of Murica, 'Cause We Can, And Who's Gonna Stop Us Or Even Notice!? Our King Can Do Anything He Wants! He Can Pardon Communism! He Can Cancel Christmas! He Can Eat Gobs Of Cancer Tissue Jammed Into A Big Mac Without Burping 'Cause He Burped Before And Should Not Also Be Expected to Burp After!! He Can Sip Oil Out Of The Ground With A Bonafidee Okiemurican Straw! A Gift From Scott Pruitt! Fished Out Of The Still Smoking Ashes Of The Patriotic Cumstained Golden Showered Used Trump Hotel Hairpie Mattresses After The EPAStagFire Party! Boy Howdy! You Can Bet Ole Scottie Was Wearing A Big Ole Okie Facemask When That Thur Mattressfire Got Goin'! Jes Ask Ole Smokey Eye!! Thank You. Amen.
Replying to @MEPFuller And no news outlet seems to care one bit about this: #Pruitt is a regular attendee and sponsor of weekly Bible Study run by the highly politicized Evangelical Capitol Ministries. Here's their sermon on environmentalism. : image via Reader Adrift @ReaderAdrift, 7 June 2018
#07: photo by Piti Dui, 5 June 2018
#07: photo by Piti Dui, 5 June 2018
#07: photo by Piti Dui, 5 June 2018
Donald Trump Called Asbestos Poisoning a Mob-Led Conspiracy, Now His EPA Won’t Evaluate Asbestos Already in Homes: Nicole Goodkind, Newsweek, 7 June 2018
The
Environmental Protection Agency will not consider the health risks and
impacts of asbestos already in the environment when evaluating the
dangers associated with the chemical compound, Scott Pruitt, the
agency's head, quietly announced last week. That means asbestos used in
tiles, piping and adhesives throughout homes and businesses in the
United States will remain largely unchecked and unaccounted for. Nearly 15,000 Americans die each year from asbestos-related diseases, but President Donald Trump has called the substance "100 percent safe, once applied."
In his 1997 book, The Art of the Comeback, Trump argued that the association of the chemical with health risks was part of a mob-created conspiracy. “I believe that the movement against asbestos was led by the mob, because it was often mob-related companies that would do the asbestos removal. Great pressure was put on politicians, and as usual, the politicians relented,” he wrote.
The Trump EPA's decision came in response to new amendments made to the Toxic Substances Control Act in 2016. The additions to the bill mandate that the EPA perform safety reviews of certain chemicals, require testing and public notice of safety info for said chemicals and allow the EPA to ban certain uses of asbestos (previously, the EPA did not have the authority to do so).
The EPA announced last Friday that it would evaluate and require approval for new uses of asbestos but would not evaluate the health risks of asbestos already in the environment.
“The end result will be a seriously inadequate risk evaluation that fails to address major contributors to the heavy and growing toll of asbestos mortality and disease in the United States,” said Linda Reinstein, president of the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization in a statement.
Reinstein, whose husband developed Mesothelioma and passed away in 2006, told Newsweek that she met with Nancy Beck, deputy assistant administrator of the EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, on two occasions along with representatives from the AFL-CIO and the International Association of Fire Fighters. The group explained the hazards of legacy asbestos and presented over 100 studies confirming that low-dose asbestos exposure caused disease, but were shut down by Beck, she said. Beck was previously a senior director at the American Chemistry Council, a lobbyist group that represents Dow Chemical, DuPont, Monsanto and ExxonMobil Chemical.
In August of 2016, the American Chemistry Council
sent a letter to the EPA urging the agency to carefully consider its
decision regarding asbestos evaluation as the chemical is essential to
the chlor-alkali industry, which creates chlorine and sodium hydroxide
for industrial use. They asked the EPA to
“take this into consideration as it determines whether to select
asbestos among the initial 10 chemicals for risk evaluation” under the
changes to the Toxic Substances Control Act. Chemical lobbyist agencies
including American Chemical Council held at least four meetings with yhe EPA lasst year regarding asbestos policy.
“If you don’t evaluate the dangerous legacy of asbestos you don’t know how much contamination still exists in the United States,” Reinstein told Newsweek. “We know it’s in our homes, schools, workplace and environment but the average American can’t identify and evaluate the risk. We have taken risk evaluation off the table.”
The bipartisan updates made to the Toxic Substances Control Act by Congress were intended to give the EPA the ability to ban the use of these substances, some senators say. The environmental agency attempted to ban the use in 1989, but a federal court ruled that it lacked the authority to do so.
“In a bipartisan compromise, Congress moved to patch up the holes in our chemical review system when it updated the Toxic Substances Control Act. But Scott Pruitt and the Trump administration are presiding over an attack on not just the spirit, but also the actual content of the reform law,” said Senator Edward J. Markey, a member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, in a statement. “Thousands of people die from asbestos-related cancers every year. Asbestos and other toxic substances will continue to contaminate our environment because Trump administration policies are contaminating the EPA.”
There's a lack of basic information in the United States about the extent to which public and private structures are contaminated by the chemical. A recent report found that the government has no record of how many schools contain asbestos materials.
“EPA’s refusal to address longstanding concerns around the use and disposal of asbestos is further proof that Administrator Pruitt will bend over backwards to help industry, but won’t lift a finger to protect public health,” said Congressman Frank Pallone, Jr., ranking member of the Energy and Commerce Committee.
The EPA did say that it would take unprecedented action on asbestos by requiring new manufacturers and importers of asbestos to receive EPA approval before importing or processing the chemical. Reinstein, however, said that this is not a ban and that the largest users of asbestos will continue to use it.
Fifty-five countries including Australia, the United Kingdom, South Africa, Israel and Japan have completely banned asbestos use. The White House referred Newsweek to the EPA and the EPA did not respond to a request for comment.
Boston Red Sox left fielder Brock Holt plays a double by Tampa Bay Rays designated hitter Corey Dickerson off the wall during fourth inning of a baseball game in Boston: photo by Charles Krupa/AP, 21 April 2016
2 comments:
The Andrew Murr photos are (as usual) wonderful.
Moving from the Trump Time cover to the O'Bama photo is a reminder that it's business as usual.
Style is almost but not quite everything. One remembers as if recalling another century, though it was but a few years ago.
The worldliness, the suavity, but the drones, often targeting those fleeing - anything in white and running, kill. Whereas Trump's way would be more to have you smashed by a hammer in public while he mugs on camera for for his too aptly named "base".
Grateful for Murr's intelligent eye and critical angle on things.
His are the only interesting pictures I've seen out of Hollywood in a long time.
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