Sharon Lerner
@fastlerner · Brooklyn · joined 22 Sep 2009
Reporter covering the environment @ProPublica. Formerly @TheIntercept. Tips welcome : ) DM for Signal. @fastlerner.bsky.social sharon.lerner@propublica.org
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@ReporterTopher - a great reporter, and a great partner in trawling the malls of NY & NJ looking for formaldehyde
https://t.co/bNN20or358
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@fastlerner Formaldehyde is one of the hazardous chemicals in 3G rubber crumb infilled football pitches.
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Formaldehyde - the poster child for our problems refillable chemicals. The EPA will come out with its final health assessment this month...
https://t.co/39Tp4sbiDE
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7/ The prospects of limiting this carcinogen have gotten dimmer post-election. Trump’s push to deregulate will go far beyond formaldehyde, of course. But this one chemical makes the human toll of delaying health protections all too clear.
https://t.co/39Tp4sbiDE
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6/ Even using that underestimated cancer risk, which is roughly 4x too low, my colleagues and I found that the cancer risk from formaldehyde in outdoor air is elevated across the country. You can look up your own risk here
https://t.co/sY1WRD6qQC
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5/ The agency also retreated from some of its findings on other formaldehyde health effects, such as asthma & reduced lung function.
In response to questions from ProPublica, the EPA wrote in an email that the report was not final and that they were in the process of updating it
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4/ Yet the EPA said its scientists’ myeloid leukemia risk estimate was “too uncertain to include” in its cancer risk assessment. The agency admitted the number it set to protect from cancer is “certainly an underestimate.”
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3/ In the face of this pushback, the EPA was moving ahead In August, it finalized a report that was 29 years in the making (!) and provided the agency’s first official recognition that formaldehyde causes myeloid leukemia, a potentially fatal blood cancer. https://t.co/3xUbVvHsF8
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2/ Cheap and widely available, formaldehyde is beloved by industry. Note just a few of the 75 trade groups that have recently written to EPA about it, many of them warning about potentially devastating effects of regulation 👇 https://t.co/7GZ2hZQgtm
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Right now you’re likely breathing in a tiny bit of formaldehyde, which can cause breathing problems and cancer more than any other chemical in the air. For the past year, the EPA has been working to regulate its use. Here's why that's proven to be tough 🧵
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Welcoming all tips 🙏
And grateful for the opportunity to cover the environment in this truly astonishing moment
find contact info for me and other @propublica reporters here 👇
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@fastlerner @songadaymann 😢😢😢 and ppl want to do away with the epa
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and here's the NYer version https://t.co/BIFO61bn31
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For years, I wished someone inside 3M could give me insight into the company’s decision to keep making and selling “forever chemicals” even though they were accumulating in people. Then I met Kris Hansen... https://t.co/vsBSK04gY3
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Growth & engagement
How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.
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Last 14 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.
Engagement rate per post
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0.47%3 Dec
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Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views.
What the audience does
Likes52.3%4 541 in total
Reposts21.3%1 851 in total
Replies1.3%117 in total
Quotes3.2%282 in total
Bookmarks21.8%1 898 in total
Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.
The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.
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