Thread: US Coast Guard, EPA cleaning up a dozen Texas chemical spills after Harvey

This is why we should not have given these dirty industries freedom to pollute especially when they can dissolve & walk away - taxpayers are forced to foot the bill for cleaning up - if and when that happens.

I've seen many an area later exposed for having some sort of industry with toxic elements, gone and now a housing community. Delaware with Dupont and other polluters there for years has made the state a cancer hot pocket.

You don't have to see or smell things that can cause cancer - they seep into the ground, the well water or rivers, streams. Southern New Jersey used to be filled with orchards and heavily inundated with cancer causing pesticides. Now all new homes/developments. There is also a high cancer rate there.

When you combine toxic industry with toxic consumer products - you have lot of deadly ingredients. Would rather see regulations. We need regulations and research - no carte' blanche for polluters.

I agree on regulations, but that isn't going to happen.

Pollution is possibly one of the reasons a lot of manufacturing went overseas. That way they could walk away from their toxic waste and taxpayers have to clean it up - or just live with it.

For many miles along that part of the Texas coastline there is nothing but oil and chemical facilities.

We were working down there once and had to stay in the area. I didn't sleep. All night, I kept waiting to hear sirens or explosions. It's pretty frightening.

If I were God, I'd have to be God, I would only allow enough drilling and refining for what we need in this country. I don't like having to live with the poisons for exporting all these products to the rest of the world.

That goes for agribusiness corporations as well. They do a huge amount of polluting and get subsidized for doing it. Nice work, if you can get it.

It will be a while before any gulf seafood can/should be eaten.

Irma brings fears of surge, sewers and toxins to Tampa area

Toxic waste sites from the state's phosphorous mining industry. . .

The region is also home to more than half of Florida's 51 Superfund sites - areas designated as some of the most toxic places in the nation by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Many are old chemical or oil storage facilities that left behind a legacy of dangerous contamination in soil and groundwater . . .

TX. 80% of fuel spilled from tank farm unrecoverable

Regs need to be in place for polluting industries otherwise will be more Superfund sites and cancers. A petition circulating below re mining methods.

If the regs are too complicated, streamline them but protect us from gas, oil, mining, pesticide overuse in every corner of land and waterways. There is no balance when profiteers are given carte blanche and very dangerous to let these industries run roughshod. Their demands are off the wall too. In Pennsylvania, fracking industries want no regs or to regulate themselves. They want to be exempt from severance taxes or clean ups. With all the destruction from thousands of wells and they plan thousands more as well as pipelines/eminent domain to liquifying stations to EXPORT LNG too, Pa residents shouldn't have to hear raise taxes to meet the budget. We are getting nothing from this assault on our Penn's Woods; they even bring their own labor force Some have been turning rural females into prostitutes, supplying drugs to them too.

Help Protect Western Water from Uranium Mining!

"Dear Administrator Pruitt:

I urge you to strengthen and finalize the “re-proposed” uranium mining rule (40 CFR Part 192) that protects communities across the west from irreversible groundwater contamination caused by in-situ leach uranium mining.

This rule was proposed to address urgent concerns about the billions of gallons of groundwater in scarce western aquifers that have and will be contaminated as a result of this type of mining on lands from Texas to Wyoming. Your own agency’s scientists have found that cleaning up this groundwater contamination has proven to be more difficult than expected and can lead to a significant drop in water tables.

I hope that as you make this decision, Administrator Pruitt, you will consider your great responsibility to protect the lives and health of communities across the west.

Please do the right thing and protect the American people, not the energy industry. The future of this region depends on it. Thank you."



https://act.nrdc.org/letter/protect-...60857%2Eef9NHT