While it may not be true that ALL cleanup workers are dead or sick CNN has ran first hand reports of several who ARE.

For example: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/07/07/oil.spill.valdez.workers/index.html#fbid=kjsgoCz550D&wom=false

That same article states “of the health records of 11,000 cleanup workers, and found that 6,722 of them had gotten sick” according to an attorney who was forced by Exxon to show the records.

Riki OTT a marine toxicologist who is a veteran of the Exxon-Valdez spill warns the same thing.

http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/07/26/marine-toxicologists-on-bp-gulf-oil-spill-we-need-to-start-talking-about-whos-going-to-pay-for-evacuations-2522/

And on that same post is a video by Merle Savage another Exxon-Valdez clean up worker who is now sick and has launched a web site to try to warn clean up workers of the dangers.

Tjen there is this report by the American review Annals of Internal Medicine shows that fisherman who participated in oil spill cleanup suffered from chromosome damage and genetic alterations that have caused significant long term chronic health affects. http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/2010/08/25/study-fisherman-cleaned-oil-suffering-chromosomal-alterations-genotoxicity-3589/

And another report from CNN linking oil spill clean up workers to lung damage. http://edition.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/08/23/oil.workers.lung.problems/index.html#fbid=kjsgoCz550D&wom=false

And I am supposed to be “Swerved” into thinking that no one from Valdez got sick or had any problems….

I can’t believe they actually print this crap.

The Center For Disease Controls
National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures
http://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/nationalconversation/work_groups.html

Here are some excerpts from one of my blogs:

Safe Chemical Act and Toxic Substance Control Act http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/2010/04/safe-chemicals-act-of-2010-to-fic-toxic.html
3:14 PM Jun 8th via Power Twitter Posting by Toxic Reverend

A Congressional Report reviewed more than 1,400 chemicals
that pose potential threats to human health and found
that only 6% are being tracked by HHS and the EPA.
And only a small percentage of the chemicals known
or thought to be carcinogenic are being
tracked by the government, the study found.

In every day terms:

Title of newspaper article;

U.S. Lags in Toxicity Data
Wednesday, May 3, 2000
Los Angeles Times, By SUNNY KAPLAN
is archived at
http://web.archive.org/web/20050426200055/www.angelfire.com/nm/redcollarcrime/lack.html

The link to the Congressional Report in
question at the above linked in newspaper story is

Testimony on Children’s Health and the Environment by Richard J. Jackson, M.D., M.P.H.
Director, National Center for Environmental Health
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services – posted at >

http://www.hhs.gov/asl/testify/t000502a.html

A Database that lists illnesses by the toxic chemicals
that can cause them is now linked in with a
review and comments at my “Toxic Reverend Tribe profile” :>
http://people.tribe.net/toxicreverend

Blessings,

Tom Krohmer
Environmental Technologist
Suggested Google search terms;
“Toxic Reverend”
and
“Organic Scam”
Tom Krohmer
aka
The Toxic Reverend – Revelations
http://toxicreverend.blogspot.com/
No known relationship to Jon Krohmer MD
Chief Medical Officer of Homeland Security

But that is not to say that there is not risk, and real Ill effects to those directly and closely exposed. Management of the clean up owes it to the workers to provide proper equipment and training.

The problem is there are a whole lot of people looking for a hand out right now, and thiscsounds like the ground work for another round of paydays. The lady in Florida is really suspect, and if you dig into her, you will likely find financial problems, a history of nonworkin, or connection to a “green” or union group. The media never reports the follow up on this.

For those of you with an ounce of critical thinking skills and scientific knowledge would see the fallacy in her report. Rain will in fact make it less so, any exposure she may have. As for her very generic and hard to medically prove, or more importantly deny, ther are out of plaintiffs bar 101. Not that people do not get these, for I know I just got over a two days bought of it after eating some high nitrate prucuiito ham. And yes, if sniff enough gas fumes fueling my boat on a hot day I will feel it too.

The big problem is legimate claims get lost in the sees of hangers on and money for nothing crowd.

It does some considerable harm to the public perception of the current problem if extreme claims are made and then disproved. I see that HuffPo has taken up the same story, but no one is making a clear citation of the study, or of interviews or research.

This is one of many ways to trivialize a serious matter – reports of this kind, in the end, are used by the responsible parties to expose their critics as fools. Do you value your credibility?

Wow, is there a conspiracy going on here?

Who is this expert? Oh yeah, she doesn’t even have a name.

It certainly isn’t my job to provide sources for a random ****** blog.