LAT: "Thousands of Firms Could Stop Reporting Emissions" TOXIC PROFITS!

[Nothing Without Hope]

There is simply no end to the Bush Administration's all-out assault on the environment/pollution controls for quick profits for industry cronies.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chemicals2dec02,0,4428901.story?track=tothtml
THE NATION

Thousands of Firms Could Stop Reporting Emissions

By Marla Cone
Times Staff Writer

December 2, 2005

Thousands of companies throughout the nation, including many in the Los Angeles region, would no longer have to provide the public with details of toxic chemicals they release into the environment under a Bush administration proposal to streamline the nation's environmental right-to-know law.

For nearly 20 years, the national Toxics Release Inventory has allowed people to access detailed data about chemicals that are used and released in their neighborhoods. In about 9,000 communities, the annual reports identify which industrial plants emit the most toxic substances, whether their emissions are increasing and what compounds may be contaminating their air and water.

Seeking to ease the financial burden on industry, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has proposed eliminating some requirements for smaller facilities that must monitor their emissions and file the complex annual reports. The EPA will make a final decision on the proposal next year, after a public comment period.

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But according to the agency's electronic inventory, many of the facilities are near residential areas, in communities with large low-income or minority populations. Many are owned by large corporations, including Pepsi Bottling Group in Buena Park, Clorox Products in Los Angeles, Raytheon in Goleta, U.S. Gypsum Co. in Santa Fe Springs and Foamex in the Bay Area city of San Leandro.

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And please check out the links in my sig line - the Pombo rider on the House version of the big budget bill could result in massive selloff of OUR public lands - including in national forests and other refuges - if it is not removed from the final budget bill!!!

[Nothing Without Hope]

1. kick for the morning crowd n/t

[nicknameless]

2. Oh shit.

Thanks for posting this, Hope.

K&R

[Bonobo]

3. No end to their evil indeed...

[Time for change]

4. Thank you Hope - you are right

There is no end to this - until we throw them out of office.

[Nothing Without Hope]

5. Kick - and if you think THIS is bad, check out the links in my sig line.

Something's afoot that wiould be much worse than the ANWR drilling rider that was in the budget bill earlier - and almost no one has noticed!!!

[thecrow]

6. Kicked and recommended!

BUt what to do?

[Nothing Without Hope]

7. There is still a public comment period on the planned EPA emissions

change. I have not yet searched to find activism pages, but publicity is key. I'll post later today after I have done some more searching - I wanted to get this LAT article up to be seen at DU right away, even before taking time to do these wider searches.

Re the catastrophic Pombo rider on the House version of the Budget Bill (in my sig line), I'll be posting an update tonight. Here is some new info with an action site for writing to congress people -we MUST PUSH THE SENATORS TO REMOVE THE POMBO RIDER and also MEDIA-BLAST to get this on the public radar.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=115&topic_id=35105&mesg_id=36113

(Yes, I know the Pombo land-grab is not the same topic as this thread, but it's too important to miss a chance to publicize it.)

[jackstraw45]

11. More like an IGNORE the public period.

The only end to the ASSAULT on our health, our children's health and environment will be the REMOVAL of BUSHCO from office.

[GreenPartyVoter]

8. Wonderful. Ecological apocalypse, here we come!!

[Nothing Without Hope]

9. kick n/t

[Nothing Without Hope]

10. kick n/t

[DeepModem Mom]

12. K&R

[PDittie]

13. .