Clean Watershed Campaign

Another delay on the horizon?

mhr — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 00:01:38 +0000

Headline this past week in INSIDE EPA warns the release of the final dioxin reassessment in December of this year is not likely. In June of 2009, EPA headquarters visited Saginaw, Bay City and Midland to assure the community of EPA’s commitment to an interim number and after dozens of years, the release of the much debated, deliberated and [...]

From EPA’s National Public Meeting on Dioxin

mhr — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 23:37:42 +0000

Thanks to Mike Schade at CHEJ (Center for Health, Environment, & Justice) for being the voice today of dioxin contaminated people and communities across the country. CHEJ comments on EPA’s public meeting Of course Dow Chemical and the industry lobbyists were out and about in full force. Here’s hoping the administration stands tall!

The awesome but ill Tittabawassee

mhr — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:04:54 +0000

Last week the Community Advisory Group (CAG) traveled from Caldwell Boat Launch in Midland County down the Tittabawassee River to the Rust Street Launch, not far from Wicks Park, on the Saginaw River in the City of Saginaw. It was personally illuminating and fortifying. This river’s striking beauty (photo 471) belies its toxicity. Cleanup, whenever that [...]

Cancer slope factor for dioxin increased

mhr — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 01:37:05 +0000

Dioxin—Yes it causes cancer and the chemical’s non-cancer effects are impacting people at lower levels. The draft dioxin reassessment is out as EPA promised but it’s just not good news for people living along the contaminated waters of the Tittabawassee and Saginaw Rivers. Cleanup needs to happen sooner rather than later. The draft reassessment report, released May [...]

Video: Dioxin! What Citizens, Workers and Policymakers Need to Know

mhr — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 01:33:36 +0000

Special thanks to Tracey Easthope and the folks at the Ecology Center in Ann Arbor for creating and sharing this video and to Dr Linda Birnbaum for agreeing to do it. Although the interview was conducted in 2004 when Dr. Birnbaum was head of the EPA Division of Toxicology, we believe it continues to provide a [...]

RIP RCRA

mhr — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 20:39:55 +0000

Lone Tree Council will be submitting comments on the major modification of Dow’s RCRA license as it is incorporated into the Administrative Order on Consent signed by EPA, MDNRE and Dow. Dow’s RCRA license is being melded into the AOC as EPA takes over the lead on this cleanup. Make no mistake; MDEQ never had the [...]

CAG News

mhr — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 18:49:45 +0000

CAG Issues: The CAG will be meeting on the third Monday of every month. Next meeting is April 19th at 6 pm—likely will be at SVSU but nothing is set in stone. EPA did not publicly announce the last meeting, it was an oversight, but will be sure to do so in the future. To date [...]

CAG Update

mhr — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 22:30:14 +0000

The first official meeting of the CAG took place on the Ides of March (15th). This after a retreat of sorts the previous month. We will be creating a location on this site as a repository for CAG information. And for commentary as needed. The EPA did forget to send out a public announcement about the [...]

It’s the least we could do

mhr — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:53:45 +0000

A local Vietnam Veteran asked if this website could be posted. He, like many Vietnam veterans, was exposed to dioxin contaminated agent orange that was sprayed on the jungles and people of Vietnam. Also like many veterans he suffers with diabetes, cancer and a rash that never really goes away. He’s very ill from exposure to [...]

deFur meeting videos available.

admin — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 00:41:13 +0000

At long last, the videos of the Dr. deFur presentation from Delta College are up and available. Due to the length of meeting, the original video has been broken into five files. Dr deFur, held a public meeting at Delta College on December 15 2009. Sponsored by Lone Tree Council and Tittabawassee River Watch, Dr deFur expounded on [...]