[Greenbuilding] Vice President Biden's Cancer Moonshot Initiative

Tue Feb 2 14:23:09 CST 2016

To Forum Members: Per the Whitehouse email below, you can submit your cancer stories @ https://www.whitehouse.gov/webform/cancer-touches-all-us-share-your-story-here. Here's the one I submitted this morning:     In his 1971 State of the Union address President Nixon declared war on cancer as follows "I will also ask for an appropriation of an extra $100 million to launch an intensive campaign to find a cure for cancer, and I will ask later for whatever additional funds can effectively be used. The time has come in America when the same kind of concentrated effort that split the atom and took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. Let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal." (National Cancer Act of 1971 https://dtp.cancer.gov/timeline/flash/milestones/M4_Nixon.htm)    He neglected to mention the “concentrated effort that split the atom” was the cause of America’s cancer pandemic. The award-winning film, “The Atomic States of America” indicates we lost Nixon’s war on cancer, in part, because EPA officials retaliated by excluding radionuclides from the Safe Drinking Water Act of 1974 (SDWA) --- the year my son was treated for his first of many brain cancers that his Huntington, NY doctors blamed on pesticides. References [1] to [10] contain proof of EPA & FDA corruption.    For example, Radon-222 (Rn-222) is a water soluble radioactive gas that cannot be removed by even the most expensive filtration systems without aeration and/or distillation. A 1985 study indicated drinking water in Maine had a mean value of 22,000 pCi/L for Rn-222 in water, with a maximum value over 1,000,000 pCi/L in one the sample. [1, pg. 2]    The graphs I uploaded last year to www.gfxtechnology.com/Po.html indicate a million pCi/L of Rn-222 will emit over 5 million pCi/L of total radiation; about 3 million in Alpha radiation from Rn-222, Polonium-218/218/210 & 2 million of gross Beta & Gamma radiation from Lead-214/210 & Bismuth-214/210.    Yet the EPA failed to set an MCL for Rn-222 in 1991 in contempt of Congress’ mandate to set a Radon-MCL by 1991 in order to prevent 80 cancer fatalities per year. The FDA was ordered by Congress to apply the Radionuclides Rule to bottled water, yet neither EPA nor FDA officials have been prosecuted for contempt of Congress.    Consequently, millions of people continue to be poisoned each day by Radon-222, Polonium-210, 214 & 218 and other radioactive elements in tap & bottled water.   My son’s doctors lied in 1974 to conceal the fact that our drinking water was (and continues to be) contaminated by Rn-222, Po-214,  & Po-218 isotopes in concentrations far above the 15 pCi/L Gross Alpha MCL set in 1976 -- the year corrupt EPA officials added the Radionuclides Rule to the SDWA, but excluded Rn-222, the parent of Po-210, 214 & 218.         New York State also has enormous levels of Rn-222, yet Governor Cuomo continues to ignore my February 20, 2015 Polonium Petition @ www.gfxtechnology.com/Cuomo.pdf.Additionally, http://www.gfxtechnology.com/Gavitt.pdf contains a response to my Polonium Petition in which the NYS Health Department estimated tap water feeding homes @ 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63 & 65 Herbert Circle, Patchogue, NY 11772, has over 1,120 pCi/L of total Alpha radioactivity; about 75 times the Gross Alpha MCL. Yet Governor Cuomo continues to ignore this clear health hazard.   Unless Vice President Biden can overcome such endemic corruption by EPA & FDA officials, as well as corrupt State Governors like  Cuomo, his Cancer Moonshot Initiative will fail as did President Nixon’s 1971 War on Cancer. Yours truly,Dr. Carmine F. Vasile60 Herbert CirclePatchogue, NY 11772
References1.     "Measurement of Radon-222 and Lead-210 in Bottled Spring Water", by Timothy A. DeVol, John P. Clements and Lara D. Hughes, Environmental Engineering & Science Department, Clemson University @ http://info.ngwa.org/GWOL/pdf/070580714.pdf2.     "OCCURRENCE OF RADON IN FLORIDA’S PUBLIC WATER SUPPLIES", Florida Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Water Resource Management, Bureau of Water Facilities Regulation, Drinking Water Section (Mail Station 3520), 2600 Blair Stone Road, Twin Towers Office Building, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2400, (850) 487-1762; January 2000. [www.dep.state.fl.us/water/drinkingwater/downloads/reports/radonreport.pdf]3.     Quote from http://cfpub.epa.gov/safewater/radionuclides/radionuclides.cfm?action=Rad_Reverse%20Osmosis4.     EPA Project Summary: "Radon Removal by POE GAC Systems: Design, Perf ormance, and Cost", EPA/600/S2-90/049 Jan. 1991. [It’s been uploaded with comments to: www.gfxtechnology.com/GAC.pdf]5.     According to the EPA, "Reverse osmosis does not remove gaseous contaminants such as carbon dioxide and radon." (Quote from http://cfpub.epa.gov/safewater/radionuclides/radionuclides.cfm?action=Rad_Reverse%20Osmosis)6.     Report to Congress: Radon in Drinking Water Regulations, by the Office of Water (4607M) EPA 815-R-12-002 (May 2012) @  http://water.epa.gov/lawsregs/rulesregs/sdwa/radon/upload/epa815r12002.pdf7.     REPORT OF STATEWIDE SURVEILLANCE FOR RADON IN SELECTED COMMUNITY WATER SYSTEMS, NEW YORK STATE 1989 – 1990; September 1990, by David Axelrod, M.D., New York State Department of Health Commissioner & Kenneth E. Slade, P.E., Bureau of Public Water Supply Protection Contaminant Studies Section. [www.gfxtechnology.com/1990-Rn.pdf] 8.     RADON IN DRINKING WATER, March 1988, by David Harris, M.D., M.P.H., Commissioner Suffolk County Department of Health Services (SCDHS), & Aldo Andreoli, P.E., Director, Division of Environmental Health. [www.gfxtechnology.com/1988-Rn.pdf]9.     “For many years, under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), FDA was supposed to adopt and apply to bottled water all EPA tap water standards within 180 days after EPA issued those standards. [107] FDA was authorized to refuse to apply the EPA tap water standards to bottled water in certain circumstances where it determined and published reasons explaining why they were inappropriate for bottled water. [108] What happened, however, was that rather than affirmatively making such determinations, FDA just could not seem to be able to get around to issuing bottled water standards or making determinations at all.” Quote from: “Chapter 4, Gaping Holes in Government Bottled Water Regulation” NRDC @ http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/chap4.asp10.  See also: “CITIZEN PETITION TO THE FDA COMMISSIONER UNDER THE FEDERAL FOOD, DRUG AND COSMETIC ACT AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURE ACT REQUESTING AMENDMENTS TO FDA RULES, AND CERTAIN POLICY STATEMENTS REGARDING BOTTLED WATER”, March 1999, Erik D. Olson, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC [http://www.nrdc.org/water/drinking/bw/bwpet.asp]   
From: info at mail.whitehouse.gov
To: gfx-ch at msn.com
Subject: The meeting I'll walk into in a few hours:
Date: Mon, 1 Feb 2016 10:28:30 -0600

During his final State of the Union, the President put me in charge of a new national commitment to ending cancer as we know it.
We're calling it a "Moonshot," and that's because I believe that this effort, like President Kennedy's call to land on the moon 55 years ago, is truly a call to humankind -- to be bold and do big things.
And right now, I'm about to walk into the very first meeting of the Cancer Moonshot Task Force the President just created, and tasked me with chairing.
Here's what it all means.
Every single federal agency with a part to play in this mission -- from the National Institutes of Health and Food and Drug Administration to the Department of Veterans Affairs and Department of Energy and its national energy labs -- will be in the same room together to make sure we're working from the same playbook.
We'll make sure we're making the most of investments, of our research and data, our supercomputing capabilities, our targeted incentives, private-sector efforts, and patient-engagement initiatives.
In fact, just today we announced a new 1 billion dollar jumpstart to make sure some of the best work going on has the funding that it needs.
Because ultimately, as the federal government, our job is to break down silos and bring people together who are doing the most cutting-edge work. Our job is to clear out the bureaucratic hurdles -- and let science happen.
And we're going to continue to call on families, researchers, and physicians all across the country to join this effort and rise to the challenge.
I've been in touch with hundreds of the world's top cancer physicians, researchers, and philanthropists.
And I’ve been in touch with Americans around the country who know the realities of this disease firsthand, people who have lived through it and people who have lost their loved ones they hold most dearly.
If you’ve got a story to tell about how this disease has touched your life, I want to hear from you.
And following the meeting, at around 3:30 p.m. Eastern, Dr. Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health, and Dr. Douglas Lowy, Chief of the National Cancer Institute’s Laboratory of Cellular Oncology, will be taking your questions on Twitter. You can ask them using #CancerMoonshot.
As the President said in the State of the Union, we can do this for the loved ones we've lost -- and the families we can still save.
I couldn't agree more. If there is one word that defines us as Americans, it's "possibility." And I believe this is possible.
I know that we can do this.
I'll be in touch along the way with ways you can help -- believe it.
Thank you,
Joe
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