To: Mr. Hook, Env. Justice Director EPA Region 6
sb: EPA visit to El Paso June 20
Please send us a copy of your agenda during your visit to this region. If necessary,please consider this an FOIA request for that information. I would like to know the purpose of your visit to El Paso and this region, and whom you spoke/met with while here.
I live 3 miles from the Asarco smelter that burned toxic waste for nearly a decade without a permit and contaminated our aquifer, much of that time on your watch. I suggest that like the TCEQ's sham-permitting-process for Asarco's sham-recyling, you possibly are in charge of sham-environmental-justice and it is time you delivered actual justice to this regions' peoples.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/5dc6087040a927d3852572a000650c01/b8c7edeba47531b5852570d6005e7e5c!OpenDocument
During that time you had to be aware of the largest TCEQ (Texas-EPA agreement state)hearing ever conducted on the Sierra Blanca nuclear dump, and were on watch when NYC's organized crime railed-and-dumped NYC sludge on the tiny minority town of Sierra Blanca.
Since your visit here, Asarco has canceled a public meeting for this weekend defending their position on re-opening this contaminated smelter. If you visited with anyone connected with Asarco or representing Asarco interests, please let us know.
I am bc'ing this email to media contacts.
Friday, June 22, 2007
Asarco sends up smoke screen
Letters published in El Paso Times
Article Launched: 06/20/2007 12:00:00 AM MDT
Mr. Lairy Johnson, Environmental Manager of Asarco, has been addressing local groups with a PowerPoint presentation which is not entirely accurate.
Mr. Johnson has stated that the Asarco smelter has not burned hazardous wastes and Asarco's El Paso smelter has not been fined for burning hazardous wastes.
The truth, per a New York Times article and related EPA report, is that the EPA fined Asarco $20 million for burning hazardous chemical weapons waste for several years: (Google New York Times Asarco and look at the third listing, or go to http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/us/11toxic.html?ex=1318219200&en=3ee634faa2197f28&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss).
Mr. Johnson has stated that the Asarco smelter will not emit more air contaminants than 230 El Paso households.
The truth is that little or no sulfur dioxide would be emitted per year from 230 households, but over 6,000 tons per year of sulfur dioxide would be emitted into El Paso's air per year if Asarco were to reopen per Asarco's permit application
20345: (Google El Paso's smoke and lots or mirrors and look at the first listing, or go to http://www.elpasotimes.com/search//ci_6040830).Noel Roberts
West El Paso
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