EPA lifts ban on selling PCB sites (without fanfare).

[Liberator_Rev]

EPA lifts ban on selling PCB sites
By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has ended a 25-year-old ban on the sale of land polluted with PCBs. The ban was intended to prevent hundreds of polluted sites from being redeveloped in ways that spread the toxin or raise public health risks.
The Environmental Protection Agency decided the ban was "an unnecessary barrier to redevelopment (and) may actually delay the clean-up of contaminated properties," according to an internal memo issued last month to advise agency staff of the change.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-01-epa-usat_x.htm
(snip)
"It was PCB pollution that forced the abandonment 25 years ago of the Love Canal community in Niagara Falls, N.Y."

I'm going to make sure this is posted on Conservative sites, because they DO CARE about things which may well effect THEM.

[Torgo]

1. This is a lot worse than it seams!

Many abandoned industrial sites, not permitted to be sold, are now more contaminated by PCB's than they were originally due to rain water run-off and localized flooding. Some years ago, I was involved with a plant PCB cleanup that started out costing $550,000 and ended up costing more than $12,000,000 after a couple of minor floods on the site.

I cannot begin to imagine what it will cost to even try to clean up these abandoned sites!

[Don_G]

6. They Don't Care

The Dem's will take care of their shoddy business practices, clean up a multi-trillion dollar deficit to leave the US in the hands of greedy children like Ken Lay again, over and over until a breaking point is reached.

What's the "Rethug" excuse? Well, China's bought our T-Bills so our economy's okay with all the money we've handed over to them in the past few years....

I would be very suprised if China dosen't own or control a third of our national debt now and dosen't have a say in the business practices in the US now.

[baby_bear]

2. The timing is sooo interesting

They have been releasing these decisions while Congress is away and before Gov. Leavitt of Utah has his confirmation hearings, giving him cover, presumably.

I was gone most of August, and when I returned to my EPA job, I was astounded by all the sneaky changes that had occurred.

Are the Dems going to make the voters realize what's going on, before it's too late, if it's not already?

A lot of these decisions are below the radar of most Americans.

I am very upset about all this. Maybe demoralized is the operative word.

s_m

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

3. Sheer stupidity

PCB's are like asbestos in that they produce illnesses such as angiosarcoma which is ONLY caused by PCB's.

Fuckers didn't even go through public hearings, they just "re-interpreted " the law.

[Mel]

4. this is horrible

I have to say I'm not surprised nothing these 'International Gangsters' do surprises me anymore.

I don't know about the rest of you but this darn sure isn't going to make me stop raising hell at my Representatives.

Just because nothing they do surprises me doesn't mean they are going to break my spirit. Just PO's me off more making me want to fight even harder!

Although, I will admit it wears mighty thin on me at times, as I'm sure it does a many that are here.

I'm going to have to call for a :grouphug: here real soon.

[pfitz59]

5. Low income housing developments.....

Coming to a toxic waste site near you!

[radfringe]

7. anyone catch 60 minutes this sunday?

big story about Monsanto and pcb's contaminating a whole town

people are told to NOT let their kids play on lawns, don't eat food out of their gardens, wear masks when mowing lawns, don't eat any fish they may catch in local waterways

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/07/60minutes/main528581.shtml

(CBS) Imagine a place so saturated with toxic, cancer-causing chemicals that it's in the dirt people walk on, the air they breathe - even the blood that pumps through their veins.

The 24,000 people living in Anniston, Ala., don't have to imagine this. Many of them are living it. In fact, they have been living it for decades - they just didn't know it. The company responsible didn't tell them, and neither did the Environmental Protection Agency.

[peterh]

8. It’s enough to make you turn green (pun intended)

Other little noticed gems from the little emperor….

<http://www.dailynews.com/Stories/0,1413,200%257E20954%257E1606853,00.html>

Feds oppose smog rules -- The U.S. Department of Justice has sided with engine manufacturers and petroleum producers in an upcoming U.S. Supreme Court case that challenges Southern California smog rules requiring companies to buy cleaner models when they replace or expand their heavy-duty fleets. Kerry Cavanaugh in the Los Angeles Daily News -- 9/3/03

<http://www.bayarea.com/mld/mercurynews/news/6679917.htm>

EPA won't regulate ship waste -- Skirting what some scientists say is the most significant water quality threat to San Francisco Bay and other ports -- invasive species -- the Bush administration on Tuesday announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will not regulate ballast water discharges from ships. Paul Rogers in the San Jose Mercury -- 9/3/03


Our environment is going to take such a heavy hit, that if left unchecked for another term, America the beautiful will be in memory only.

[Suziq]

9. I Am So Outraged!

All repuklicans definitely have the Ann Coulter mentality - screw every living thing on this planet (humans included). People are here to rape the planet of all its resources with total disregard for every other living thing!

Anyone who votes for Chimpy deserves to live on one of these sites, but I agree low income people will probably be most effected.

:cry:

[shanti]

10. agreed

i'm starting to feel very nauseous about all of these rollbacks that chimpy is coming up with. there has to be at least one a week! i SINCERELY believe that he and his are destroying this planet!!!

:cry: