"News Releases By Date:
'EPA Makes Chemical Information More Accessible to the Public for the first time, TSCA chemical inventory free of charge online'."
Release date 03/15/2010.
Contact: Dale Kemery kemery.dale@epa.gov, 202-564-7839, 202-564-4455
The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lisa Jackson, has accomplished more for environmental justice in her little over a year in this position than any administrator in the past several decades. The Executive policy of taking away years of secrecy of government operations for four decades has opened up communications between the People, Government and Industry. Last December (22, 2009), when Ms. Jackson appeared before the Senate, and asked finally for the TSCA rules to be reconsidered for the health and safety of humans worldwide. http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=07100a89-d2f0-4298-80af-db5597364928 [a link to the pdf. of Ms. Jackson's presentation].
In years past, over zealous EPA administrators ostracized industry, and created a hostile negotiating table. In contrast, Administrator Lisa Jackson did her homework. She included every interest in her appeals, and by her willingness to form partnerships, she got the Chemical Industry to open up and get on board. Hey, industrialists do provide jobs, income and the keyboard I am typing on. Industrialists have families and grandchildren who share this earth, it is showing in this mutual cooperation.
This is the link to the chemical lists that have been kept locked up for almost fifty years. http://www.epa.gov/oppt/newchems/pubs/invntory.htm
When people get involved and work together, it makes a difference exponentially.
A big thank you to Administrator Jackson, to President Obama for opening government operations to citizens who care, and thank you to the Chemical Industry.
Bless...
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/bd4379a92ceceeac8525735900400c27/631cf22eb540c4db852576b2004eca47!OpenDocument
Showing posts with label Senate Committee on the Environment and Public works. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Senate Committee on the Environment and Public works. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Friday, December 11, 2009
EPA reaches agreement with Dow Agrosciences on Clean-Air Violations
"News Release by Date: EPA December 11, 2009 - Contact William Omohundro 312-353-8254 or omohundro.william@epa.gov
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/A694364D549360DA85257688006089A7
A $70,000.00 fine to Dow AgroScience must be a big deterrent! The Harbor Beach plant generate Methanol and uses xylene in the production of pesticides in their Harbor Beach Plant. They came to this agreement which includes the $70G fine. The announcement doesn't go into detail as to what the exact violations are.
Dow chemical is a household name. This company has brought a huge benefit to human existence in many ways over the years. What disturbs me is that in the history of Dow Chemical and its subsidiaries. Their environmental issues have been large, and they have mostly skipped on having to remediate the properties, air and waterways they have polluted with toxic substances.
Because of the way the tax code is set up, there is a benefit for any business owner, that they may abandon property, leaving no responsibility for what is left behind. When there is an environmental area that has become toxic, it is called a "Brownfield". Dow has left behind several Brownfield areas, and it is up to the U.S. Taxpayer to foot the bill under "Super-fund" clean-up monies. Millions of dollars of the Stimulus monies has gone to clean up Superfund and brownfield areas left behind by major polluters.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/652d9edd5cf71a2585257359003f5343/e8be4e897bbc2fd8852576410055a8f2!OpenDocument
Keep in mind we are still looking at MI...this is Clean Water violations gone on over years...
http://www.epa.gov/region5/sites/dowchemical/pdfs/down-negotiation-fs-200906.pdf
Here is Dow pulling the strings of Senators in D.C....getting a public EPA administrator fired or put on administrative leave...
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Majority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=e3c91abd-802a-23ad-41ea-bc73cd8cec97&Designation=Majority?
No need pestering the owners/polluters, let the taxpayer pick up the bill: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/hsrc/presentations/2002_directors_meeting.pdf
8 Court cases that one legal firm has fought for DOW: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:hOCWngY0FNsJ:www.wendel.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Dpeople.persondetail%26id%3D10637+Dow+Chemical,+Brownfield,+Superfund,+EPA,+administrative&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
And last but not least: The "free-flowing cash of 1.2 billion in the 4th Quarter of 2008...
Specifically Dow AgroSciences reported full-year sales and EBIT(2) records. Sales grew 20% to $4.5 billion, reflecting an 8 percent increase in volume and a 12% increase in price, and delivering EBIT of $761 million. This is from their Dow 2008 4th Quarter Earnings Statement.
http://www.dow.com/financial/reports/08q4earn.htm
...is there any way to get true environmental justice when dealing with a conglomerate this size and stature...?
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/0/A694364D549360DA85257688006089A7
A $70,000.00 fine to Dow AgroScience must be a big deterrent! The Harbor Beach plant generate Methanol and uses xylene in the production of pesticides in their Harbor Beach Plant. They came to this agreement which includes the $70G fine. The announcement doesn't go into detail as to what the exact violations are.
Dow chemical is a household name. This company has brought a huge benefit to human existence in many ways over the years. What disturbs me is that in the history of Dow Chemical and its subsidiaries. Their environmental issues have been large, and they have mostly skipped on having to remediate the properties, air and waterways they have polluted with toxic substances.
Because of the way the tax code is set up, there is a benefit for any business owner, that they may abandon property, leaving no responsibility for what is left behind. When there is an environmental area that has become toxic, it is called a "Brownfield". Dow has left behind several Brownfield areas, and it is up to the U.S. Taxpayer to foot the bill under "Super-fund" clean-up monies. Millions of dollars of the Stimulus monies has gone to clean up Superfund and brownfield areas left behind by major polluters.
http://yosemite.epa.gov/opa/admpress.nsf/652d9edd5cf71a2585257359003f5343/e8be4e897bbc2fd8852576410055a8f2!OpenDocument
Keep in mind we are still looking at MI...this is Clean Water violations gone on over years...
http://www.epa.gov/region5/sites/dowchemical/pdfs/down-negotiation-fs-200906.pdf
Here is Dow pulling the strings of Senators in D.C....getting a public EPA administrator fired or put on administrative leave...
http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Majority.PressReleases&ContentRecord_id=e3c91abd-802a-23ad-41ea-bc73cd8cec97&Designation=Majority?
No need pestering the owners/polluters, let the taxpayer pick up the bill: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/hsrc/presentations/2002_directors_meeting.pdf
8 Court cases that one legal firm has fought for DOW: http://74.125.95.132/search?q=cache:hOCWngY0FNsJ:www.wendel.com/index.cfm%3Ffuseaction%3Dpeople.persondetail%26id%3D10637+Dow+Chemical,+Brownfield,+Superfund,+EPA,+administrative&cd=10&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
And last but not least: The "free-flowing cash of 1.2 billion in the 4th Quarter of 2008...
Specifically Dow AgroSciences reported full-year sales and EBIT(2) records. Sales grew 20% to $4.5 billion, reflecting an 8 percent increase in volume and a 12% increase in price, and delivering EBIT of $761 million. This is from their Dow 2008 4th Quarter Earnings Statement.
http://www.dow.com/financial/reports/08q4earn.htm
...is there any way to get true environmental justice when dealing with a conglomerate this size and stature...?
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
News Releases By Date
News Releases By Date!
Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. EPA Legislative Hearing on the Toxic Substances Control Act. (TSCA) to the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works. (12/02/09).
Administrator Jackson appeared before The Senate Committee on the Environment & Public works. Administrator Jackson is coming to the Senate, part of the arm of government that makes or changes law. She comes with her homework done!
All in all Lisa Jackson is asking the Law Makers to untie the hands of the EPA. The Environmental Protection Agency is charged with protecting human health in the U.S. and globe. If they are unable to gain regulatory teeth, unable to get co-operation from those chemical producers, then something is very wrong.
I can hear the Brethren scream with no thought; "I suppose you want to see the end of the economy." "You don't want progress." "You're going to send us back a hundred years." It has all been said before, and it is still not true.
Ms. Jackson sites the terrible time and trouble expended in trying to get rid of asbestos. Everyone knows that stuff is bad. Everyone. But as Lisa Jackson states, because of TSCA (that Act that was supposed to protect people from chemicals used in commerce...) there were so many hurdles experienced, and in 1989, a federal court over turned EPA's ruling against its use and hazards. There are so many road-blocks in obtaining information and testing on some 80,000 chemicals there is no telling what humans world wide are being exposed to.
Hopefully, your Senators will hear the voice of the people who put them into office. Lisa Jackson is doing the job she was appointed to do. She is not sitting behind a desk, pushing paper. She has been all over our Country looking at situations and problems first hand. She is working for the citizens of the U.S. and world.
Director Jackson makes six points of impacts, and six specific things she is asking of this Senatorial Committee. (Snippets of each point)
1. Chemicals need to be reviewed against known safety standards and health risk criteria...
2. The responsibility for being transparent regarding health and safety information to the public lies on industry...
3. The EPA should have a clear authority to take risk management actions when human health is at risk, especially the young and weak among us...
4. The EPA should have clear authority to set priorities for conducting inspections. The chemical companies should operate within a timely framework...
5. To keep an open book to the public, while working to develop green technologies and business practices...
6. The agencies that regulate the chemical producers should be funded and be given authority when it comes to human health, and chemical producers should remain transparent...
Overall, TSCA needs to be brought into the 21st Century...
I just paraphrased the six points presented, please read the entire announcement for exact quotes and phrases.
It is refreshing to see those who are paid to serve the public do just that! Kudos Lisa Jackson ~ The Mother thanks you.
[My two-cents: Going back to the inception of the TSCA in 1976, it was enacted at a time when those who were fighting major industrial polluters to remove lead from the air, and other particulate matter. It was a time of change when awareness of affects on human health when using polluted waters and take food from polluted water. It was in these late 1970's that we were learning that if you put a toxic substance on the ground, or in liquid into the ground, it can contaminate anything grown, and wells and aquifers.
It is obvious that Chemical producers, and all the commerce that includes, could see the writing on the wall. Instead of waiting to be next on the awareness movements agenda, they would go ahead and help pass the TSCA smoothly, exempting those who would have the most cleaning and answering to do. Tying the hands of regulators...The dirtiest polluters are usually the ones making the largest profits. I will give credit where credit is due; they have made some amazingly high paying positions and providing some jobs in the communities they inhabit.]
Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the U.S. EPA Legislative Hearing on the Toxic Substances Control Act. (TSCA) to the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works. (12/02/09).
Administrator Jackson appeared before The Senate Committee on the Environment & Public works. Administrator Jackson is coming to the Senate, part of the arm of government that makes or changes law. She comes with her homework done!
All in all Lisa Jackson is asking the Law Makers to untie the hands of the EPA. The Environmental Protection Agency is charged with protecting human health in the U.S. and globe. If they are unable to gain regulatory teeth, unable to get co-operation from those chemical producers, then something is very wrong.
I can hear the Brethren scream with no thought; "I suppose you want to see the end of the economy." "You don't want progress." "You're going to send us back a hundred years." It has all been said before, and it is still not true.
Ms. Jackson sites the terrible time and trouble expended in trying to get rid of asbestos. Everyone knows that stuff is bad. Everyone. But as Lisa Jackson states, because of TSCA (that Act that was supposed to protect people from chemicals used in commerce...) there were so many hurdles experienced, and in 1989, a federal court over turned EPA's ruling against its use and hazards. There are so many road-blocks in obtaining information and testing on some 80,000 chemicals there is no telling what humans world wide are being exposed to.
Hopefully, your Senators will hear the voice of the people who put them into office. Lisa Jackson is doing the job she was appointed to do. She is not sitting behind a desk, pushing paper. She has been all over our Country looking at situations and problems first hand. She is working for the citizens of the U.S. and world.
Director Jackson makes six points of impacts, and six specific things she is asking of this Senatorial Committee. (Snippets of each point)
1. Chemicals need to be reviewed against known safety standards and health risk criteria...
2. The responsibility for being transparent regarding health and safety information to the public lies on industry...
3. The EPA should have a clear authority to take risk management actions when human health is at risk, especially the young and weak among us...
4. The EPA should have clear authority to set priorities for conducting inspections. The chemical companies should operate within a timely framework...
5. To keep an open book to the public, while working to develop green technologies and business practices...
6. The agencies that regulate the chemical producers should be funded and be given authority when it comes to human health, and chemical producers should remain transparent...
Overall, TSCA needs to be brought into the 21st Century...
I just paraphrased the six points presented, please read the entire announcement for exact quotes and phrases.
It is refreshing to see those who are paid to serve the public do just that! Kudos Lisa Jackson ~ The Mother thanks you.
[My two-cents: Going back to the inception of the TSCA in 1976, it was enacted at a time when those who were fighting major industrial polluters to remove lead from the air, and other particulate matter. It was a time of change when awareness of affects on human health when using polluted waters and take food from polluted water. It was in these late 1970's that we were learning that if you put a toxic substance on the ground, or in liquid into the ground, it can contaminate anything grown, and wells and aquifers.
It is obvious that Chemical producers, and all the commerce that includes, could see the writing on the wall. Instead of waiting to be next on the awareness movements agenda, they would go ahead and help pass the TSCA smoothly, exempting those who would have the most cleaning and answering to do. Tying the hands of regulators...The dirtiest polluters are usually the ones making the largest profits. I will give credit where credit is due; they have made some amazingly high paying positions and providing some jobs in the communities they inhabit.]
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