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Did Donald Trumps EPA prevent NASA from doing cancer research in Texas following Hurricane Harvey?
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TOM BOGGIONI at Raw Story
https://www.salon.com/2019/03/05/did-donald-trumps-epa-prevent-nasa-from-doing-cancer-research-in-texas-following-hurricane-harvey_partner/
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According to emails obtained by the Los Angeles Times, officials at the Environmental Protection Agency prevented researchers from NASA from looking into pollution levels that could lead to cancer in areas of Houston that were devastated by Hurricane Harvey in 2017.
The report states that NASA proposed to flying one of their DC-8s, equipped with the worlds most sophisticated air samplers to check the effects of pollution from chemical spills, fires, flooded storage tanks and damaged industrial plants that were the result of the hurricane after residents complained about ill-effects including dizziness and nausea.
However, just before the NASA plane was to take off the EPA and the state of Texas intervened saying that NASAs data would cause confusion and might overlap with their own analysis.
Included in the emails obtained the LA Times, Michael Honeycutt, Texas director of toxicology who previously suggested pollution may be beneficial to humans shot down the plan the EPA agreeing.
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