Re: The most toxic town in America (Monsanto) -> new "rules" for PCB sites

[Salty Thumb]

Salty Thumb > wrote in
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> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/07/60minutes/main528581.shtml
>>Today, parts of Anniston are so contaminated that residents have been
>>told not to grow vegetables in the soil, kick up dirt, eat food, chew
>>gum or smoke cigarettes while working in their yards.

EPA lifts ban on selling PCB sites
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=18
&u=/usatoday/11765280

PCB soil ... probably good for Bushes, but not much else.

-- Crazy Lunatic

[David J Bockman]

These sites are perfect opportunities for brownfield restoration/general
remediation. An entire industry revolves around healing land like this.

Dave

"Salty Thumb" > wrote in message
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> Salty Thumb > wrote in
> :
>
> > http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2002/11/07/60minutes/main528581.shtml
> >>Today, parts of Anniston are so contaminated that residents have been
> >>told not to grow vegetables in the soil, kick up dirt, eat food, chew
> >>gum or smoke cigarettes while working in their yards.
>
> EPA lifts ban on selling PCB sites
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=676&e=18
> &u=/usatoday/11765280
>
> PCB soil ... probably good for Bushes, but not much else.
>
> -- Crazy Lunatic
>

[Salty Thumb]

"David J Bockman" > wrote in
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> These sites are perfect opportunities for brownfield
> restoration/general remediation. An entire industry revolves around
> healing land like this.

I don't have any problems with people cleaning up the sites, as long as
"cleaning up" doesn't mean digging up the soil and repackaging it as
something innocuous (as alleged with Ironite). Who's going to make sure
that's not going to happen? The cleanup company's 'conscience'?

I find it unseemly that the Bush administration decided to make this
change. I thought the executive branch was supposed to enforce the law,
not intrepret it.

- Salty

[David J Bockman]

"Salty Thumb" > wrote in message
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> "David J Bockman" > wrote in
> :
>
> > These sites are perfect opportunities for brownfield
> > restoration/general remediation. An entire industry revolves around
> > healing land like this.
>
> I don't have any problems with people cleaning up the sites, as long as
> "cleaning up" doesn't mean digging up the soil and repackaging it as
> something innocuous (as alleged with Ironite). Who's going to make sure
> that's not going to happen? The cleanup company's 'conscience'?

The EPA, the reputation of the Landscape Architect/Brownfield Restoration
expert who wins the bid, the surrounding community,, all play a role.

Dave