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  • #31
    Re: Why the EPA exists

    Coalition Sues over Kirtland Air Force Base Jet Fuel Pollution

    My point of theses posts are the fact that we have serious pollution and contamination issues in this country and a president that seems to think the EPA is something we don't need.

    Citizens groups, state lawmakers and three New Mexico residents who live near jet fuel contamination in Albuquerque have filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Department of Defense, alleging a failure to adequately clean up pollution from Kirtland Air Force Base.

    The lawsuit was filed in U.S. District Court in New Mexico and asks a federal judge to order the Air Force to "abate and mitigate the endangerment." It also seeks to recover legal fees, which have so far climbed to at least $10,000, according to the complaint.

    A jet fuel leak was first discovered at Kirtland Air Force Base in 1999, according to the lawsuit.

    Since then, some five to 24 million gallons of fuels have leaked from the facility and have been absorbed into soil and groundwater, according to a notice letter the New Mexico Environmental Law Center sent to the U.S. Air Force, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Department of Defense and New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas.
    https://www.military.com/daily-news/...pollution.html

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    • #32
      Re: Why the EPA exists

      Originally posted by ABFwife View Post
      Coalition Sues over Kirtland Air Force Base Jet Fuel Pollution

      My point of theses posts are the fact that we have serious pollution and contamination issues in this country and a president that seems to think the EPA is something we don't need.



      https://www.military.com/daily-news/...pollution.html
      We were just making jokes about this at work the other day. Mosquito's the size of C-130's flying about the base could be caused by the pollution over the years.....

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      • #33
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        Even though this thread is titled "Why the EPA exists", this is important enough to include in this thread. Once again, this administration does not care about employees, especially unionized employees.

        Union files unfair labor practice charge against EPA
        A union representing thousands of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) employees has filed an unfair labor practices charge against the agency, formally accusing it of violating employee rights.
        In the charge, the American Federation of Government Employees (AFGE) union says that Associate Deputy Administrator Douglas Benevento “falsely disparaged and threatened the union and employees” in May and that Administrator Andrew Wheeler made false statements about bargaining in July during meetings with regional staff.
        “Additionally, after Doug Benevento spoke with AFGE leadership on April 22, EPA received press inquiry almost immediately afterwards asking for comment on the matters in that briefing. When contacted by the Federal Labor Relations Authority, EPA will provide all requested documentation to FLRA and will comply with their investigation,” an EPA spokesperson said.

        The complaint follows the recent union and agency signing a contract after years of disputes.
        https://thehill.com/policy/energy-en...ge-against-epa

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        • #34
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          Go back to read post #1. The reason I started this thread is outlined there and carries on to this post. The Cuyahoga river is burning again. It represents ( to me ) the reason we need a strong and protective EPA, which is now being gutted by the Trump administration under the guise of loosening restrictive practices that corporations ( polluters ) use to dump wastes while harming the land and water we all need and use.

          51 Years Later, the Cuyahoga River Burns Again
          On March 20, 2019, fish caught in Ohio’s Cuyahoga River were declared safe to eat by federal environmental regulators. It was a major milestone in the river’s recovery—once one of the most polluted waterways in the country—because 50 years earlier, it caught on fire. Public outrage around that 1969 fire spawned a national reckoning on water pollution and led to the creation of the Clean Water Act, the Environmental Protection Agency, and Earth Day. Earlier this week, however, the Cuyahoga caught fire again. It’s a timely reminder that much of the progress made on water pollution during the past 51 years is rapidly being undone.
          Cleaning up the Cuyahoga remains an ongoing effort. Regulations implemented by both federal and state EPAs have stopped the sources of pollution and have drawn state, federal, and local funding and participants. One man paddles the river in a kayak every day just to collect trash. Communities are working to remove the river’s dams, restoring habitat for fish and other wildlife. Yet rather than symbolize how polluted our environment is, the Cuyahoga has become a poster child for the EPA’s success. Even the section of it between Cleveland and Akron—the most polluted stretch—has met nearly all of the goals established by the Clean Water Act for its recovery.
          Late last year, the Trump administration made changes to the Clean Water Act that strip its protections from 60 percent of streams in this country, along with 110 million acres of wetlands. At the same time, it restricted the ability of state governments to regulate their own waters. Before that, it revoked a proposed rule aimed at limiting water pollution caused by sewage-treatment plants and eliminated an established rule stopping coal companies from dumping waste into water sources.
          https://www.outsideonline.com/241650...fire-2020-1969

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          • #35
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            Great ! Another regulation scrapped that allows power companies to delay ( and flexibility ? ) cleaning coal waste, poisons and heavy metals.
            Coal is dead in the United States. It's 19th century technology that is dirty, polluting and harmful to the people and the environment.

            Trump Relaxes Limits on Toxic Waste from Coal Power Plants
            The Trump administration is relaxing Obama-era requirements stemming toxic heavy metal pollution from coal-fired power plants.
            Under the Environmental Protection Agency rule unveiled Monday, electricity companies would have more time and flexibility to treat power plant wastewater that contains mercury, arsenic and other toxic heavy metals. Older coal power plants that are shutting down or switching to natural gas by 2028 will also be exempted from the requirements altogether.
            It’s the latest act by the Trump administration to bolster the U.S. coal industry, which has flagged as power companies embrace cheaper and cleaner alternatives, from natural gas to wind.
            The measure targets pollution unleashed when power companies clean up coal-fired plants, including sulfur dioxide captured by emissions-control equipment inside smokestacks. Plant operators also often rely on water to flush toxic coal ash from the bottom of furnaces. For more than a decade, environmentalists have warned the practice imperils American waterways.
            By the EPA’s own estimates, discharges from steam-based power plants, many using coal, are the nation’s third-largest source of toxic wastewater, occurring near more than 1,500 public wells and where roughly 100 public drinking water utilities pull water for treatment.. Coal plant wastewater can contain heavy metals, including arsenic, a neurotoxin that can cause cancer and impair the brains of developing children.
            https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump...160000944.html

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            • #36
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              Another superfund site will be added to New Jersey's growing list of of places contaminated from corporate waste dumping. In the end, the taxpayers will pay to cleanup this site, and hundreds of others, all the while the corporate thieves pocket the money and run.
              Sad part is, this company is still in business. I would guess they filed some bankruptcy scam to get off the hook.

              Toxic N.J. site could be state’s newest addition to nation-leading Superfund list
              New Jersey is home to more Superfund sites — the nation’s most polluted locations — than any other state in the country.
              It could soon have one more.
              The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday it is proposing to add the Pioneer Metal Finishing, Inc. site in the Franklinville section of Gloucester County’s Franklin Township to the national Superfund list.
              The site is a former electroplating facility that began operations in 1955. For the first couple of decades, until the late ’70s, the facility discharged untreated waste containing metallics salts and sludge into an adjacent wetland. Today, soil in the area is contaminated with chromium, copper and nickel at levels that threat human health, as well as cancer-linked polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs.)
              New Jersey currently has 114 Superfund sites, the most of any state or U.S. territory, according to the EPA.
              https://www.nj.com/news/2020/09/toxi...fund-list.html
              Last edited by 222lifer; 09-01-2020, 11:11 PM. Reason: Added word

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              • #37
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                How could anyone support a fool that exclaims he knows more then his Generals ? Or that he knows all about science, helicopters and windmills ? This is the line in the sand for anyone that wants a better country, a cleaner earth and a safe place for future generations.

                EPA rejects its own findings that a widely used pesticide harms children’s brains
                The Trump administration has rejected scientific evidence linking the pesticide chlorpyrifos to serious health problems, directly contradicting federal scientists' conclusions five years ago that it can stunt brain development in children.
                The Environmental Protection Agency’s assessment of the pesticide, which is widely used on soybeans, almonds, grapes and other crops, is a fresh victory for chemical-makers and the agricultural industry, as well as the latest in a long list of Trump administration regulatory rollbacks.
                As a result, the assessment may be the first major test of the Trump administration’s intention, often referred to as its “secret science” proposal, to bar or give less weight to scientific studies that can’t or don’t publicly release their underlying data. This controversial policy would eliminate many studies that track the effects of exposure to substances on people’s health over long periods of time, because the data often includes confidential medical records of the subjects, scientists have said.
                “This shows that EPA has completely abandoned any commitment to protecting children from this extremely toxic chemical when their own scientists recommended twice to ban it. The science is being overridden by politics,” said Erik D. Olson, senior director for health at the Natural Resources Defense Council. The environmental group Earthjustice accused the Trump administration of “fudging the data” to reach its conclusion.
                https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/na...cgy-story.html

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                • #38
                  Re: Why the EPA exists

                  Originally posted by fxstc07 View Post
                  How could anyone support a fool that exclaims he knows more then his Generals ? Or that he knows all about science, helicopters and windmills ? This is the line in the sand for anyone that wants a better country, a cleaner earth and a safe place for future generations.

                  EPA rejects its own findings that a widely used pesticide harms children’s brains




                  https://www.baltimoresun.com/news/na...cgy-story.html

                  Will this nightmare ever end???????

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                  • #39
                    Re: Why the EPA exists

                    Let's hope the EPA makes the correct decision on this chemical.

                    Bayer, BASF fight to keep weedkiller on US farms
                    Chemical makers Bayer AG BAYRY 1.32% and BASF SA are pushing to maintain a controversial weedkiller in the marketplace after a federal court docket in June blocked its use in U.S. soybean and cotton fields.
                    The businesses are in search of approvals from the Environmental Safety Company that might enable farmers to proceed spraying dicamba, a herbicide that may kill hardy weeds however has been blamed for drifting off fields and damaging thousands and thousands of acres of neighboring crops. Bayer and BASF are proposing that farmers combine the weedkiller with new chemical brokers that firm officers stated would assist dicamba keep the place it’s sprayed.
                    EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler stated the company’s scientists are nonetheless reviewing the businesses’ dicamba-based crop sprays. “We intend to have a choice made by the center of October,” he stated throughout an Oct. 1 presentation to the Minnesota Farm Bureau.
                    Some farmers and owners, nevertheless, have blamed dicamba for evaporating off fields and touring onto close by fields and gardens, shriveling vegetation and chopping into crop manufacturing. State agriculture departments within the 20 largest soybean-producing states have acquired about 915 complaints of dicamba-related injury thus far this 12 months.
                    In 2016 an Arkansas farmer was murdered after what authorities stated was a dispute over dicamba-related crop damage.
                    https://apkmetro.com/bayer-basf-figh...-on-u-s-farms/

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                    • #40
                      Re: Why the EPA exists

                      Three carriers that operate in California has been fined for violating their emissions laws.

                      EPA settles with three trucking companies for violating California trucking emissions laws
                      The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on October 16 announced it had settled with three trucking companies for violating the California Air Resources Board’s (CARB) Truck and Bus Regulation.
                      Roadrunner Transportation Systems Inc. (OTC: RRTS) was fined $117,000 for operating heavy-duty diesel vehicles that lacked the diesel particulate filters required by the regulation, and operating unregistered and noncompliant drayage trucks.
                      Ruan Transportation Management Systems Inc. operated heavy-duty diesel trucks in California lacking the required diesel particulate filters.
                      Ruan also failed to verify that the carriers it hired to transport goods in California complied with the Truck and Bus Regulation. Ruan is the first company cited by EPA for failing to timely meet specified particulate matter emission reductions in transport refrigeration equipment under state of California requirements.
                      The Boise Cascade Co. failed to verify that the carriers it hired to transport goods in California complied with the Truck and Bus rule. The company will pay a $175,000 civil penalty and has agreed to use compliant trucks.
                      https://www.freightwaves.com/news/ep...emissions-laws

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