The Sierra Club Superfund Report: Bush Administration Failing to Protect People's Health

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http://www.sierraclub.org/toxics/superfund/report04/

 

Communities At Risk:

The Sierra Club Superfund Report

 

How the Bush Administration is Failing to Protect

People's Health at Superfund Sites.

 

New Report Details Health Threats at Superfund Sites

Across Country

 

Children frequently ride bikes and play within yards

of the Jennison-Wright Superfund sites in Granite

City, Illinois, one of the worst hazardous waste sites

in the nation.The Bush administration’s failure to

protect Americans’ health from toxic waste pollution

is documented in this new report on the Superfund

toxic waste cleanup program released today by the

Sierra Club. The report breaks down state-by-state the

Superfund sites across the country where human

exposure to toxic pollution and groundwater pollution

is either not under control or where insufficient data

on threats exist.

 

The report is based on Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) performance indicators that show that the task

of protecting people’s health and water supplies from

toxic chemical contamination is far from complete.

 

The report finds that human exposure to

health-threatening chemicals is not under control at

111 Superfund sites. At another 199 Superfund sites,

EPA has insufficient data to determine if migration of

groundwater pollution is under control.

 

Americans are paying twice: once with their health and

again with their taxes. There is a better way. The

Bush administration could help solve these health

threats and tax burden by supporting the polluter-pays

principle to recreate a stable funding source for the

Superfund program.

Read the full report.

 

Download the report. (3mb PDF file, 37 pages)