Professor Tom Burke
@burke_professor
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Environmental epidemiologist, risk assessor, Professor Emeritus @JohnsHopkinsSPH, former official @EPAresearch and New Jersey. Jersey City boy.
Baltimore, MD
Joined February 2019
Sharing important essay. I hope every member of Congress reads this and understands the grave impacts on our health. https://t.co/BUnVELrIf3 via @NYTOpinion
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The war on public health is a battle to the death.
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Shame! EPA erases references to human-caused climate change from websites - E&E News by POLITICO
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The agency revamped its webpages to feature natural causes of rising temperatures such as the Earth’s orbit.
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The War on Science continues. EPA Research, NIH, CDC, now this. Administration Plans to Break Up Premier Weather and Climate Research Center https://t.co/cLMeR82CkD via @NYTimes
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Russell Vought, the White House budget director, called the laboratory a source of “climate alarmism.”
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Trump EPA Nearly Doubles Threshold for Safe Formaldehyde Exposure — ProPublica
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Chemical industry lobbyists have long pushed the government to adopt a less stringent approach to gauging the cancer risk from chemicals, one that would help ease regulations on companies that make...
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Preparing a lecture today I turned to the CDC website on childhood lead poisoning. This is what I got! Unbelievable! #PublicHealth #childrenshealth
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We have people in power making broad claims around certain drugs and autism that have been continuously disproven. The degree to which those comments can undermine public health, do harm to women who are pregnant, create anxiety for parents who do have children who are autistic –
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“EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say” This is unbelievable. The assault on science by the current political leadership continues. The Agency has lost its credibility and capacity to protect our environment and health.
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Staff from the EPA’s Office of Water were summoned to a town hall meeting this week and told to pause the publication of most research, pending a review.
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Sharing strong words from our public health leaders. Our Nation’s health depends on a public health system of state and local public health professionals led by a strong, independent, and evidence driven CDC! https://t.co/h3kLKgcYno via @NYTOpinion
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Agency leaders sound the alarm.
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EPA Pulls Down Updated Scientific Integrity Policy - another blow against scientific integrity @EPA. P
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Try as he might the evidence will not go away! This is a foolish strategy. In Game-Changing Climate Rollback, E.P.A. Aims to Kill a Bedrock Scientific Finding https://t.co/qrcWHnUnOb via @NYTimes
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The proposal is President Trump’s most consequential step yet to derail federal climate efforts and appears to represent a shift toward outright denial of the scientific consensus.
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The polluters won. ACC Applauds House Appropriations Committee for Advancing Sound Science in Federal Rulemaking
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Terrible news for farmers and the safety of our food! Trump cuts funding for PFAS farm contamination research, halting efforts to track chemicals in crops - EHN
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Pfas-laden pesticides and sewage sludge used as fertilizer move into crops and nearby water sources
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The reversal of our public health progress is a national tragedy. U.S. measles cases reach 33-year record high as outbreaks spread
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Johns Hopkins University data reflects the public health reversal in defeating the vaccine-preventable disease since measles was officially eliminated from the U.S. in 2000.
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A dark day for science and health. National Climate Report Website Goes Dark https://t.co/MKfTbGLI1v via @NYTimes
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The federal website hosting five legislatively mandated reports stopped working Monday afternoon.
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I joined @JohnsHopkinsSPH's Public Health on Call to talk about forever chemicals Listen to my conversation with @burke_professor here: https://t.co/mnko7fvr1f
https://t.co/sZRSNFQtYm
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Hmmm…. Qualified? Conflict of interest? Objective about pesticide risks? POLITICO Pro | Article | Farm industry lobbyist, MAHA critic to head EPA pesticides office.
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Kyle Kunkler departs from the American Soybean Association to take the helm of the agency's program regulating farm chemicals.
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C’mon. We get it that you are deregulating, but stop assaulting the well established science. This is destroying the credibility of EPA. Trump EPA claims power plant emissions aren’t harmful, contradicting climate science - EHN
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The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly...
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Deregulation by delay. EPA just delayed reporting safety data on 16 toxic chemicals.
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The Environmental Protection Agency extended the deadline for reporting health and safety data for 16 toxic chemicals, including benzene, BPA and vinyl chloride.
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Moving backwards. What about children’s health? EPA plans to relax limits on power plant mercury emissions, document shows - EHN
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The agency plans to weaken limits on toxic emissions from power plants while also scrapping restrictions on planet-warming greenhouse gases.
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