EPA to Help Mainstream Media Obscure The Truth About Radiation Exposure to
Americans
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Brandon Turbeville
Activist Post
As Americans focus on March Madness and Dancing With the Stars instead of
the radioactive plume spreading all across the country, the US EPA
(Environmental Protection Agency) is attempting to make the mainstream media
cover up of the Fukushima cloud a bit easier.
The agency now notorious for its infamous claim that the air was safe to
breathe after 9/11 is now seeking to raise the PAGs (Protective Action
Guides) to levels vastly higher than those at which they are currently set
allowing for more radioactive contamination of the environment and the
general public in the event of a radioactive disaster.
PAGs are policies established by the EPA that guide the agency in enforcing
the various environmental laws such as the Clean Air and Water Act in the
invent of a radioactive emergency such as a nuclear/dirty bomb or factory
meltdown like that occurring in Japan.
The EPA had already established PAGs in this area in 1992. They can be found
here. However, the agency now plans to amend and revise these standards this
year.
Because regulatory agencies form their own policies (although they can be
directed by either the President or the Congress), there is no requirement
to seek Congressional approval for these changes. All that is required is
that the agency place the proposed changes in the Federal Register for
public comment before it finalizes its draft into legal policy.
According to PEER (Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility, the
new standards would drastically raise the levels of radiation allowed in
food, water, air, and the general environment. PEER, a national organization
of local, state, and federal employees who had access to internal EPA
emails, claims that the new standards will result in a "nearly 1000-fold
increase for exposure to strontium-90, a 3000 to 100,000-fold hike for
exposure to iodine-131; and an almost 25,000 rise for exposure to
radioactive nickel-63" in drinking water. This information, as well as the
emails themselves were published by Collapsenet on March 24.
In addition to raising the level of permissible radiation in the
environment, PEER suggests that the standards of cleanup after a radioactive
emergency will actually be reduced. As a result, radioactive cleanup
thresholds will be vastly lowered and, by default, permissible levels of
radiation will be vastly increased in this manner as well.
As Michael Kane writes for Collapsenet, the current EPA numbers, as well as
those generally agreed upon in the international radiation assessment
community, all point to the fact that these increases in permissible levels
would create a level of radiation where approximately 1 in 4 people would
contract cancer from exposure to them.
The changes to the 1992 PAGs are not a new attempt by the EPA. The agency
attempted similar changes in 2009 but the revisions were stopped largely by
a barrage of FOIA requests and a lawsuit filed by PEER. However, in 2009
there was no massive radiation disaster the EPA needed to cover up as there
is at the current time. In 2009, the EPA could afford to back off, regroup,
and try again at a later date. Unfortunately, it is not likely to react the
same way this time around.
As of the time of this writing, a toxic cloud of radiation has not only
reached the US West Coast, but has spread all the way across the country to
states like South Carolina, North Carolina, Florida, and Massachussetts.
Both the US government and the mainstream media have largely denied any risk
associated with the radiation and have actively engaged in covering up the
extent to which it has spread across the country.
In the event of any real journalism, the revelation of the danger and scale
of the Japanese radiation cloud could be disastrous for those who hide the
truth from the people who are sure to suffer the consequences. Indeed, the
revelation that a toxic cloud of cancer-causing particles is littering the
United States (especially in real time) might even be too much for the
average television- and sports-obsessed American to handle.
However, the lowering of safety standards for radiation contamination would
be a major victory for those wishing to cover it up. After all, the talking
heads would then be able to claim that the radiation levels are within the
safety range set by the EPA.
No cause for worry.
Regardless of the motivation behind these new changes, they must be actively
opposed. We cannot allow the veil to be pulled even further over the eyes of
the American people. At the very least, we cannot allow an agency charged
with protecting both the environment and the people who live in it to set
standards alleviating itself of that responsibility.
Brandon Turbeville is an author out of Mullins, South Carolina. He has a
Bachelor's Degree from Francis Marion University where he earned the Pee Dee
Electric Scholar's Award as an undergraduate. He has had numerous articles
published dealing with a wide variety of subjects including health,
economics, and civil liberties. He also the author of Codex Alimentarius -
The End of Health Freedom
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