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Dioxin – A Serious Public Heath Risk

admin — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:47:59 +0000

“Dioxin – A Serious Public Health Risk” Stephen Lester, Science Director Center for Health, Environment & Justice Many industry advocates have argued that dioxin is not a threat to public health and that the federal EPA’s proposed cleanup goals – interim preliminary remediation goals (PRGs) – for dioxin in soil are trying to solve a [...]

Adminstrator Jackson: We are still waiting

mhr — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 22:02:54 +0000

Dear Administrator Jackson, On behalf of the Lone Tree Council I would like to thank you for the EPA’s many efforts to address the myriad of issues associated with dioxin and its impacts on human health and quality of life. We understand that responding to the NAS, development of interim PRG’s and the cumbersome process [...]

Saturday morning truism

mhr — Sat, 21 Aug 2010 16:23:20 +0000

In America today you can murder land for private profit. You can leave the corpse for all to see, and nobody calls the cops. ~Paul Brooks, The Pursuit of Wilderness, 1971

Sediment traps are not rocket science

mhr — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 20:08:24 +0000

At the July 19th EPA public meeting, EPA was asked about the ongoing failure to place sediments traps in the river system to mitigate the migration of contaminated sediments to Saginaw Bay. EPA stated the delay is because the agency does not want to do it wrong. There is no doubt the sentiment is true [...]

Enough fingers to count ‘em

mhr — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:40:50 +0000

What if EPA held a public meeting and nobody came? It was close. The July 19th public meeting on SVSU was unprecedented. Not counting the Dow representatives, agency folks and the CAG, there were five members from the public in the audience. Not even the media showed up. Granted there is a level dioxin fatigue on [...]

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 argued, [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]