Especially when polls show that Americans overwhelmingly support health and environment-protective regulations, WHY have we been forced to endure a deregulatory onslaught from the EPA in recent years, from PFAS “forever chemicals” to pesticides, putting all Americans’ health at risk? Corruption.
The corporate executives and lobbyists crossing through the Revolving Door between industry and government regulatory agencies have done so for years in the shadows, without shame. They make the rules that benefit polluting corporations and break the rules that benefit the rest of us. That’s why we’re calling them out and campaigning for Congress to reform the EPA.
And let’s not forget about the pesticide-harm immunity battles on the federal and state levels over the last few years. Bayer-Monsanto bought U.S. Representative Glenn “GT” Thompson to do the company’s bidding in Congress, introducing poison pills into budgetary legislation and in the Federal Farm Bill in an attempt to hand the pesticide industry immunity from “failure to warn” lawsuits. Corruption.
We plastered his mugshot across social media and called him and other puppet politicians out, many posts going viral. We helped generate enough national exposure that the poison pills were stripped. We were winning. Until the Supreme Court ruled in Bayer’s favor in June. Corruption?
But even on that issue, the fight is not over. We’ll continue to promote legislation that would reverse the Court’s decision.
These are just a few of the many issues every American should know about, but surprisingly few do. If Americans aren’t aware of the corruption taking place, they can’t take action. Not taking action means continued corruption.
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We’ve been exposing corruption since we were founded nearly 15 years ago, reaching millions of people. But for broad systemic change, we need to reach many, many millions more. We must not stop until we get the changes we all want and deserve.
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