The latest bad news
by Guest Blogger, 7/6/2005
- BushGreenWatch is reporting that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a permit last week that will allow the Coeur d'Alene mining company to discharge mining waste from a proposed gold mine into a lake in the Tongass National Forest near Berner's Bay in Southeast
Alaska, paving the way for mining companies all over the country
to follow suit. According to the mining company's environmental review, the barrage of chemicals in the lake will likely exterminate the fish population. Environmentalists criticized the change as a backdoor attempt to circumvent a court ruling that found that mining waste in Appalachian mountain streams violates the Clean Water Act.
- The Congressional Research Service analyzed chemical security risks and learned that more than 100 facilities nationwide, in 23 different states, store large amounts of chemicals that are fatal or could actually melt your lungs -- and are located near communities of at least 1 million people. Meanwhile, the Bush administration's ties to the chemical industry leave the homeland unsecured.
- A NewJersey food manufacturer is recalling a Spanish sausage product becasue of possible contamination by Listeria, the bacterium "that won't die." Weakening already weak safegaurds against Listeria, by the way, is a priority item on the White House's anti-regulatory hit list.
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