User talk:Kmarkey

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I am a researcher at a national progressive environmental think-tank with a background in chemistry, physics, and computing.

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[edit] PBDE

Hi Kristian. I think, you were wright. The guy making this edit is most probably Klaus Rothenbacher from BSEF, a representative of the bromine industry. Cheers, Lucido 17:07, 25 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] SDWA whistleblower protection

Greetings! I noticed some edits on the Safe Drinking Water Act page on whistleblowers. While important in and of itself, there does not appear to be a justification in the text section you wrote as to why this information is so important with regards to the Safe Drinking Water Act and why there should be a link farm to a host of whistleblower orgs. Was it the first piece of legislation with a similar provision? Has it been used widely or notably? Cheers, Kristan 14:42, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

The SDWA was not the first US environmental law with an employee protection (the Water Pollution Control Act, also called the Clean Water Act, was). However, the employee protection is a key part of the enforcement scheme. In my experience, too many employees don't know about the employee protection. They still think they have to do whatever the boss says, and they then play along with unhealthy illegality. When more employees know that they can refuse illegal orders, and report violations, with legal protection for their jobs, then we are all going to have more security in our drinking water. It is especially important to include information about the unusually short time limit to initiate complaints -- 30 days. Too many people find out after this time limit has expired. The SDWA is unique in that it allows the recovery of exemplary damages for violations of the employee protection. I wish all environmental laws had this provision. r3 23:36, 26 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Perfluorocarbon

Hi Kristian. You might be interested in this discussion: Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Chemicals#Perfluorocarbon. It's about the same topic as you have started a discussion on Talk:Perfluorocarbon. -- 77.56.108.47 00:19, 10 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] sunscreen controversy

Hi, I need your help on the sunscreen controversy. I disagree with the following edit made by the Redpenofdoom: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Sunscreen_controversy&diff=212587486&oldid=212583224
what is your opinion? Gerriet42 (talk) 12:34, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

Since you speak german aswell: My username gerriet5 on the german wikipedia has been blocked. For no good reasons. please help me with this. They totally reverted all my edit and now the problem of sunscreen absorbing into the skin is not even mentioned on the Sonnencreme Web site.

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Gerriet5

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Vandalismusmeldung/Archiv/2008/05/22#Hautkrebs_.28erl..29

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:Andante#Sonnencreme

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer_Diskussion:PDD#Sperrung_von_Benutzer:Gerriet5

Thank you for helping. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Gerriet42 (talk • contribs) 08:11, 23 May 2008 (UTC)