NO COUNTRY FOR POOR PEOPLE: Polluter-Friendly Regulations Force Children in...
Let me ask you something: If the air breathed by children attending an American elementary school was contaminated by lead levels so high that it could damage their brains, and cause them life-long...
View ArticleCriminal Negligence? School Officials Send Kids to TCE-Contaminated Bronx...
Some one may have go to jail for this. Bronx Schools Chancellor Dennis Scott just announced the closing of the Bronx New School. Scott said that the soil at the school– and the air that the kids...
View ArticleBronx New School Officials Keep Parents in the Dark About School’s Chemical...
The TCE contamination discovered earlier this year in the air that the kids breathe at the Bronx New School was so bad that the City’s environmental consultant instructed the New York City School...
View ArticleIS ENVIRONMENTAL PROIs Environmental Protection for Sale… Or Does It Just...
You may have heard that President Obama is trying to get himself re-elected. What you may not have heard is what US EPA Chief, Lisa Jackson, is doing to help him. Last month, the President sent out an...
View ArticleSTAND UP AND FIGHT… YOU CAN SHAME YOUR GOVERNMENT INTO DOING SOMETHING ABOUT...
This is a hopeful story. But it must first wind its way through some seemingly discouraging territory. Hang with me, though, and we’ll get to the hopeful part. I promise. Here’s the discouraging...
View ArticleSTIFF-ARM CITY: Chancellor and Department of Education Break Promise to...
Before we get to the broken promise, let’s first re-cap DOE’s disregard for the health of the children who have attended The Bronx New School for the last 20 years [feel free to visit my previous blogs...
View ArticleTHE POLLUTION LAWYERS HELP CNN SPOTLIGHT THE DANGERS OF CONTAMINATED SCHOOLS
In every case we have the same worry: “what is this contamination doing to the children?” Whether the contamination is TCE in drinking water coming out of the kitchen tap and shower head; PCE in...
View ArticleGot Clean Water?
Thirsty? A drink of clean water is available in most places in our wonderful country. It’s available on tap in our homes, at water fountains in parks and in our children’s schools. Cool, clean aqua...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of Environmental Failure
How long should it take to clean up toxic chemicals after they are spilled? A week, a month, a year, 5 years? The answer is: “decades, usually.” Worse, often times, the answer: is “the chemicals will...
View ArticleContamination Victims Deserve a Lawyer, Too
A group of families get “bad news”. They’re told — often at a community meeting in the basement of a local town hall or church — that their water supply has just been tested, and that dangerous...
View ArticleNothing “Army Strong” About This: U.S. Army Contaminates Entire Neighborhood,...
The U.S. Army is showing a disrespect that borders on hostility toward its neighbors who live near the Army’s Fort Gillem base just outside of Atlanta, Georgia. The Army’s decades-long failure to...
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Find Out ASAP if There is TCE Vapor Intrusion in Homes in Elmira, New York
Last week, New York’s Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) announced that chemical contamination discovered at the former Triple Cities Metal Finishing plant in Elmira, New York “presents a...
View ArticleDon’t “Leave It Up to the Experts” to Protect the People Against Groundwater...
Last year, the groundwater feeding a well located at the Portsmouth, New Hampshire Airport—which was one of several wells supplying water to the citizens of the City of Portsmouth—was found to be...
View ArticleLess Government Patience, More Government Action Needed On North Carolina...
Why isn’t the State of North Carolina doing more to protect its own citizens against contaminated water? For years, North Carolina has departed from the practice of most states, and allowed political...
View ArticleIf You Don’t Look for Water Contamination, You Won’t Find It.
The LA Times and environmental advocacy group, Water Defense, recently combined to show what a sham so-called “environmental testing” can sometimes be, because it creates the illusion of protection for...
View Article“Scientific Study” or Paid Advertisement for Fracking?
In March 2015, Syracuse University hydrology professor, Donald Siegel, and a team of other scientists published a fracking study in Environmental Science and Technology, the bottom line of which is,...
View ArticleWill Duke Energy Stop Committing Environmental Crimes?
On May 14, 2015, in a federal courtroom in Greenville, North Carolina, coal combusting giant Duke Energy pled guilty to committing 9 environmental crimes for its years of illegal discharge of coal ash...
View ArticleAlarming Contamination in Los Angeles Groundwater
Recently, the Luskin Center at UCLA released a study that highlighted the dangers of Los Angeles County’s water supply system. The results were staggering. Approximately 40% of community water...
View ArticleContamination in America’s Drinking Water, and the Harm It Causes
What are the most common harmful chemicals in water that many Americans drink every day? What harm can these chemicals cause to people? The EPA regulates the nation’s drinking water supply through...
View ArticleTransporting Dangerous Chemicals by Train is a Massive Tragedy Waiting to Happen
We’ve all been caught by one of those rumbling, seemingly endless freight trains that have become an increasingly common sight in our neighborhood. Have you ever wondered what’s inside them? As it...
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