jerseyhoya wrote:My shot in the dark for tonight: GOPer wins by under 1% and gets less than the combined vote of the Dem+Green Party guy.

@realDonaldTrump

When I decided to go to Ohio for Troy Balderson, he was down in early voting 64 to 36. That was not good. After my speech on Saturday night, there was a big turn for the better. Now Troy wins a great victory during a very tough time of the year for voting. He will win BIG in Nov.

According to Fast Company, the EPA’s recently released report detailing its new framework for evaluating the risk of its top prioritized substances states that the agency will “no longer consider the effect or presence of substances in the air, ground, or water in its risk assessments.”

This news comes after the EPA reviewed its first batch of 10 chemicals under the 2016 amendment to the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), which requires the agency to continually reevaluate hundreds of potentially toxic chemicals in lieu of removing them from the market or placing new restrictions on their use. The SNUR greenlights companies to use toxic chemicals like asbestos without consideration about how they will endanger people who are indirectly in contact with them.

Asbestos was widely used in building insulation up until it was completely banned in most countries in the 1970s. The U.S. severely restricted its use without completely outlawing it. As Fast Company covered, the Asbestos Disease Awareness Organization (ADAO) revealed in April that asbestos-related deaths now total nearly 40,000 annually, with lung cancer and mesothelioma being the most common illnesses in association with the toxin.

Jim Newell for Slat July 27, 2018 wrote:
Republicans get the Nancy Pelosi slip-up they wanted.

Just as Tuesday’s special election seemed to be trending toward Democrats—with prognosticators moving this longtime red district to “toss-up” status, and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee pouring hundreds of thousands of dollars into it—the party’s nominee, Danny O’Connor, gave Republicans the opening they wanted. In an interview with MSNBC’s Chris Matthews, O’Connor—who had previously said he wouldn’t support Nancy Pelosi for leader—was pressed over whether he would support her in a hypothetical speaker’s vote between her and a Republican. “I would support whoever the Democratic Party puts forward,” O’Connor eventually conceded. This was on Tuesday. By Wednesday, the National Republican Congressional Committee had already put out two ads.