Clean Watershed Campaign

EPA fails to Release Dioxin Reassessement

mhr — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 11:23:00 +0000

Late yesterday the EPA, capitulating to industry, announced it would not be releasing the non-cancer portion of the dioxin reassessment. Shameful! Lone Tree Council Press Release below. Lone Tree Council PR FEB 2012 Recent Dioxin Timeline

Tracey Easthope’s compelling arguments to Adminstrator Jackson

mhr — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 00:08:06 +0000

The Ann Arbor based Ecology Center is without a doubt one of Michigan’s finest advocates for children and public health issues – hands down they just rock. Below are their compelling comments to Lisa Jackson to release the dioxin reassessment. The failure to finalize the document until now represents a political, moral and ethical failure. [...]

NRDC calls on Lisa Jackson to release the Dioxin Reassessement

mhr — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 21:57:32 +0000

The Natural Resources Defense Council making the best argument for release of the dioxin reassessment. As an added bonus, NRDC argues in detail why the EPA must stop listening to the disingenuous petition of the chemical industry to once again delay the release. NRDC DRA 1-2012

Clean Water Action Letter to Lisa Jackson

mhr — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:08:40 +0000

Clean Water Action calling upon Administrator Jackson to release the dioxin reassessment. We are concerned that the American Chemistry Council (ACC) and other industry trade associations are once again pressuring the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to further delay the release of this important document. We believe the American public has a right to know about [...]

Dear Administrator Jackson

mhr — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 11:59:11 +0000

Lone Tree Council joining a chorus of environmental and public health advocates calling on Administrator Jackson to finally release the EPA’s long delayed dioxin reassessment. Jan. 2012 EPA Jackson dioxin reassessment.

Lone Tree videotaping the CAG meetings

mhr — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 00:14:24 +0000

Since EPA’s take over of Dow’s contamination along the rivers, public participation and attendance at meetings has hit an all time low. The CAG has had its fits and starts and is still grappling with the science and charge before them. Few attend the CAG meetings. Last month Lone Tree Council began videotaping the CAG meetings [...]

Practice collides with rhetoric

mhr — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:32:51 +0000

Ringing in the New Year, EPA announced this past week that Dow Chemical is second among toxic chemical emitters. And then there’s the rhetoric. Sustainability begins at home, but its destiny is to engage the problems of the world. We will build on our company’s rich legacy of leadership in solving the world’s most pressing [...]

26 days and counting

mhr — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 21:37:01 +0000

Back in September, Lisa Jackson’s EPA, after missing a previous deadline to release the dioxin reassessment, said the agency would divide its long-awaited final dioxin reassessment into two parts: cancer and non-cancer endpoints with plans to release the non-cancer numbers for dioxin in soil by the end of this month, January 2012. Applying a tried and [...]

Put a value on nature.

admin — Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:14:45 +0000

It’s perhaps very telling the value that Dow Chemical holds all of the regional area by how long they have sought to delay, and avoid responsibility for their pollution. If they really valued the ‘human element’, like their PR campaign claims, you would think that they, as a corporation, would also value the environment that [...]

EPA Settles on Plan for Segment 1

mhr — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 21:03:44 +0000

November 2011 EPA and Dow Chemical Co. signed a legal agreement on November 2, 2011 requiring Dow to clean up sediment in Segment 1, a three-mile stretch of the Tittabawassee River next to Dow’s Midland Plant. There are six Sediment Management Areas or SMAs identified within Segment 1 where chemical pollutants are targeted for cleanup. [...]