Tell the EPA: Make Our River’s Shoreline Healthy Too!

For 30 years, General Electric dumped more than 1.3 million pounds of a highly toxic chemical called PCB into the Hudson River.

Now, GE has agreed to take the first step to begin removing these harmful chemicals from the bottom of the Hudson. But there are no plans to remove these toxins from the surrounding river floodplain!

The production of PCBs was banned in 1977 due to their harmful effects on the neurological, hormonal, and reproductive systems of humans and animals. Yet to this day, GE PCBs continue to leak into one of our nation's most loved rivers. What impacts will this have on the animals, people, and natural environment that make up the banks of the Hudson? Cleaning up the bottom of the Hudson is a good start, but it is a dangerous mistake to stop there!

Urge the EPA to order General Electric to clean up this floodplain contamination and to conduct an expanded floodplain analysis of the entire Hudson River PCB Superfund Site!

Sign the petition...

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/606606259</FONT></FONT>

 

see if anybody is interested in creating a petition about this.


According to the Fright House, the EPA IS officially worthless.
These two statements do not appear together as you read, and I'm not certain if they are referring to the "operating program" or the clean air ACT... but it does clearly state that they have NO enforcement or intelligence division.

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EPA carries out a significant portion of its mission through the Operating Program, which includes its core responsibilities for regulatory development, enforcement, research, and program grants to states.


The program guarantees results, eliminating costly regulation, litigation, inspection, and enforcement actions. As a result, industry compliance has been nearly 100 percent. [/red]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2004/epa.html

Urge the EPA to recognize their own ignorance and ours for allowing a federal agency to exist like this one, especially when they are recognizing their responsibilities and blowing them off on the same page.
Somebody write GREENPEACE or any other supposed Earth loving agency that has been fighting to save our environment over the years. To me it looks like it should be simple enough to pluck this "revelation" our of their own book and use it to instigate some massive changes.


I'll go sign the petition, but other than that, the "environmentalist" groups just piss me off too bad to waste my time showing them that the the EPA is officially worthless, and none of them can see that, and at least have them word their irresponsibility in a less blatant manner.