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"THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS FOR GOOD MEN TO DO NOTHING"
--Burke

Saturday, April 19, 2008

When oh when will they talk about the Toxic Waste?

Seems like everything is coming up in the news these days.
- Asarco's Bankruptcy Court case.
- Refineries, pollution, cost of Oil
- OSHA investigation of Asarco related 1990 letter and lung capacity of Mexican Americans
- Hayden AZ
- Arsenic levels
- The EPA saying that the TCEQ didn't do its job
- NMED saying that the TCEQ didn't do its job

But nothing about the unknown toxic wastes in our water from the secret illegal years of toxic waste handling/burning.

Nothing about the unknown toxic wastes in our soils and resuspended-into-the-air from those years and years of illegal secret toxic waste handling and burning.

Nothing.

Nada.

A deafening silence.

- Martin Luther King wisely said: "There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal". It is a betrayal of our children, our schools, our parks, our drinking water, our homes.

Speak Up, El Paso.

Wednesday, April 16, 2008

The residents were never told about the OTHER toxic wastes in sludge...

http://dianarn.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/sewage-waste-tested-as-lead-fix-on-poor-black-people/

"Sludge Tested As Lead-Poisoning Fix

Apr 13 05:18 PM US/Eastern
By JOHN HEILPRIN and KEVIN S. VINEYS
Associated Press Writers

BALTIMORE (AP) - Scientists using federal grants spread fertilizer made from human and industrial wastes on yards in poor, black neighborhoods to test whether it might protect children from lead poisoning in the soil."