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Dear god, don't put me in the position where ibhave to defend the EPA, please.
"It is said" is a horrible argument. Come with facts or go away. They don't even knoenwhich chemicals exactly will be used, so how about you start there?
I beg to differ. It should be required that manufacturers of such chemicals do the research to show that their product is safe before they allow its manufacture and workers to be exposed and the chemical to be dumped into the environment.
From the Guardian article linked to in OP's article:
The EPA knows that the chemicals are harmful, but doesn't know how harmful yet approved them anyway. As for the facts, that's kind of hard to get since:
Emphasis mine. They've approved chemicals for use in manufacturing and have redacted much of the approval notice so that no one can double check their work. If this lawsuit fails, we may not know how bad these chemicals are until they are sickening and killing workers and wildlife.