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EPA eats it again

EPA Grant to Polluter Group Blocked
After CCHW's Southern Field Organizer Pam Stone found "smoking pistols" showing
impropriety by EPA's Dallas Regional Office, the Environmental Congress of Ark. (ECA)
& CCHW complained to EPA, forcing suspension of a $150,000 Technical Assistance Grant
(TAG) to Jackson- ville People with Pride Cleanup Coalition (JPWPCC). Our information
also triggered a series of probes on why EPA Region 6 gave a grant to an industry
front group which EPA knew was set up with money from Hercules Chemical (main
polluter at Jacksonville's 3 Superfund sites). The TAG program is the ONLY
environmental grant program to local communities, the result of hard-fought battles
CCHW organized from 1984-6. TAG
see "TAG Scandal," pg. 2

Supreme Court: BFI Must Pay!
On June 26th, the US Supreme Court handed Browning Ferris Industries a major defeat,
upholding a $6M judgement against it by a Vermont jury. The jury found BFI guilty of
trying to drive Kelco Disposal of Burlington, VT (founded by a former BFI employee)
out of business and ordered BFI to pay $51,000 in actual damages, plus an additional
$6 million in punitive damages. BFI appealed, arguing the judgement was "excessive"
and therefore violated the 8th Amendment prohibition on excessive fines. The Court
rejected this on a 7-2 vote.

WMI gets $4.5M fine in Chicago
USEPA fined Waste Management $4.5M for improper operations at its SE Chicago hazwaste
incinerator. $2.25M of the fine was due to allegedly letting PCB waste drift into the
neighboring low-income black community; $1.17 for improper record keeping; $525K for
burning PCBs when scrubbers weren't working and $250K for failing to stop burn PCBs
when stack monitors failed.

Archie McPuff: No Joke
First, McDonald's said it would begin recycling its 1.6B cubic feet of styro-trash.
So, hundreds of citizen groups & churches took them at their word and dropped off or
mailed to McDs mounds of styrofoam during protest held as part of CCHW's "Operation
Send It Back" during Earth Day Week in April. McD's had turned away demands that it
switch to recyclable materials by setting up a pilot recycling program with Amoco. But
its "model" plant in Brooklyn is in trouble. Since "virgin" polystyrene sells for less
than $0.60/lb, McD gets little more than public relations from it. But McD's has a new
plan.
"A McPuff Behind Every McDonald's"
That's what Shelby Yastrow, McD's V-P for Environ- ment says is his dream. Yastrow
sent many of you a snide form letter in return for your styrofoam saying he believes
styrofoam is perfectly safe to burn. To act on this point, McDs sought and received
licenses directly from IL-EPA to install "Archie McPuff" incinerators and put three of
them behind Chicago area McDs in Yorkville and Woodridge, IL and seeks approval in
other states for more. THIS IS NOT A JOKE.
see, "Next McToxics Action Steps," pg. 2

Love Canal Rehab, Action Bumped
The NY Health Dept is stalling on the proposed August date to begin allowing people
to move back into Love Canal, which is to be renamed, "the Sunrise City." CCHW,
Greenpeace and the NY Toxics Coalition had planned a large scale protest at Gov.
Cuomo's mansion in Albany on August 5th, but decided to postpone the action until Sept
15 pending Cuomo's action (or lack thereof) to block rehabitation of an area that
isn't. PLEASE keep sending cards and letters to CCHW (and to Cuomo, and call 800-I-
I-LOVE-NY) and we may yet get justice at Love Canal!

Congress asks:
Incredible Houk, Fraud or Fool?
Dr Vernon Houk heads up the Centers for Disease Control's unit dealing with toxic
health effects. As C. Everett Koop leaves the post of Surgeon General, Houk's name has
been whispered as his sucessor. But, it's be- come pretty unlikely after Congress tore
up Houk's cover up of Agent Orange health effects among Vietnam vets. Houk's team
spent $63M but concluded they couldn't find enough exposed Vietvets to sample. The
American Legion commissioned its own study, had no such trouble and showed a definite
correlation between exposure and ill- ness. Rep Ted Weiss (D-NY) charged Houk's study
"either was a politically rigged operation, or it was a monu- mentally bungled
operation." Houk testified that, given the choice, he'd prefer to call it bungled. His
own staff testified to making up data and disregarding normal re- search methods to
the point where they couldn't remem- ber what was fact and what was fiction.
"To understand a part per trillion [of dioxin], think of that number as one second
off of your watch every 32,000 years." ---Brig. Gen. Michael Torma of the Army Medical
Branch at Agent Orange Hearings, 7/10/89.

Mc Toxics ACTION Steps, continued from pg. 1
Keep pressuring McDs! The plastics industry is upset about local ordinances banning
plastic packaging. Bans in Suffolk Cty, NY, the Twin Cities in MN, Berkeley, Palo
Alto, Newark, NJ, etc. have them in a panic. At VT town meetings, they're banning
styro-trash and changing zoning laws to forbid fast food joints that use styrofoam.
Direct action at McD's combined with creative local legislation will help Shelby get
the smoke out of his eyes and plastic out of our communities. Check your local McDs to
see if they have an "Archie McPuff."
Latest battleground: our schools, where students are organizing to get styrofoam out
of their cafeterias. Back- lash from the plastics industry is fierce. When students
organize, Plastics PR people rush in with neat literature selling the marvels of
plastics along with heavy- handed threats the school district will be bankrupted if
they drop styrofoam in favor of more environmentally-sound materials. CCHW stands
ready to help students organize campaigns and deal with industry tactics.
NEXT STEPS:
*Keep sending styrofoam to McDonalds. Drop it off at your local McDs or send it to
Shelby Yastrow, McDonalds Corp, 1 McDonalds Plaza, OakBrook, IL 60521. Check your
local McDs plans to install a McPuff. Chicago Greenpeace reports they look like a
little painted castle.
*Encourage institutions such as schools, churches, your workplace, etc. to stop using
styrofoam.
*Consider local ordinances. Councilmember Nancy Skinner (Styro-Clearinghouse, 2180
Milvia St, Berk- eley, CA 94704) drafted of one of the 1st and has a package of the
best ordinances with background info. And there's CCHW's expanded "McFact Pack" you
can order on the publications form in this issue.
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TAG Scandal, continued from page 1
money is supposed to enable citizens' groups hire their own technical experts to
advise on clean up. Investiga- tions by CCHW and the Arkansas Democrat showed:
o EPA Region 6 AND HQ knew JPWP was setup with Hercules Chem. $s. EPAs TAG chief
admitted this at CCHW's Nov '88 TAG conference. HQ says only Reg 6 knew. Reg 6 denies
it knew anything.
o Reg. 6 memos describe how staff helped JPWP avoid disqualification by changing
its member list of 52 companies and agencies to individuals. Among them: ENSCO,
Hercules, Hercules' lawfirm.
o Officers for JPWP and JPWPCC are the same, though JPWP says dioxin's no cause
for alarm, while JPWPCC admits there might be some cause for concern. EPA memos
discuss but dismiss this inconsistency. Hercules' donated the services of its ad
agency to JPWP and the agency answers JPWP's phone. The ad agency also hired a
professional grantwriter to do JPWPCC's TAG proposal which was then reviewed by
Hercules.
o Sen Dale Bumpers and Rep Tommy Robinson wrote to support JPWPCC. Documents show
Bumpers and Robinson got gifts of around $35K from people connected with JPWP and
Hercules. EPA asked the FBI to investigate whether these contributions constituted
bribery or illegal contributions. EPA HQ is also trying to keep the scope of
investigations focused on potential wrong-doing by Reagan holdovers in the Dallas EPA
Office, not HQ. As EPA & FBI investigates CCHW/ECA charges and information, TAG money
remains frozen.

ALAR, ASBESTOS Banned, BUT...
EPA ordered a near total ban on asbestos use by 1997. Ban doesn't affect existing
products and lets a known cancer-causer to be used for 7 more years. The Personal
Injury Trust Fund ran out of money for claims after only 6 months and won't have more
money till '91. Manville Corp, hiding behind bankruptcy laws to escape further
liability, set up the fund. At current payment rates, this year's claims won't be
settled till 2023. Asbestos victims who develop incurable, asbestos-related cancer
mesothelioma usually die in 6 months.
Uniroyal halted US sales and ordered a US recall of cancer-linked Alar, pending Uniroyal's long-terh effects study. The Processed Apple Institute, whose member businesses were devastated by theAa cna, supported the ban. But Uniroyal and EPA were criticized for allowing continued foreignsaes
800 Actions
Toll-free "800" #s are a tool for "arm-chair protest." After we ran Hershey's 800# in AB#22, people to protest the chocolate syrup plastic "can" that slips through sorting at recycling centers,gt etdand wrecks recycling gear. These protests made Hersheys withdraw the package! Other "80 Atin"oporunties:
EXXON (see pg. 3): 800-344-4355.
NEW YORK STATE TOURIST BOARD, to support Justice at Love Canal (see pg. 1): 800-I-LOVE-NY
CONSUMER PACKAGING INSTITUTE (plastics industry lobby), to support the "McToxics Campaign" (see pg his page: 800-247-7207.
MARINE SHALE PROCESSORS, INC, to support the efforts of folks in Morgan City, LA to shut down this ecycler" (see "LOUISIANA" to get the story): 800-USA-MSPI.
800 #s costs recipients about $2 a call but cost you $0!
OILY WATERS: What you can do
By now, anyone who reads or sees the news knows the Exxon Valdez spill was not an isolated case. Iny, massive tanker spills in the Delaware River, Houston Ship Channel and off Rhode Island's cos aetepoint the oil industry must be regulated more closely than the Reagan-Bush Administratios av dne EXO does not have the great environmental record it claimed it had when the Valdez spll appned Le's ookat the record:
o Within days of the Alaska spill, Exxon was involved with another spill, this time in Louisiana. dlaw was barging Exxon waste from Houston and while unloading near Baton Rouge, the barge spli nto plling thousands of tons of toxic slime into Bayou Pid- geon. GSX says it didn't know it eeeda icns t haul these toxics. Exxon says, "it wasn't our responsibility."
o Then, the EXXON Philadelphia, carrying 22M gals. of crude lost power off the coast of Washingto and drifted for 7 hours before being taken under tow.



o After a May fire, EXXON had to close down one of its pipelines at its Bayway Refinery in Linden, o EXXON is on trial in Houston, TX to determine if Exxon concealed knowledge of HW at Liberty Wasipsl site, blamed for deaths of two people in the Highlands community.
o Alaska's Governor accused EXXON of a disinformation campaign about its efforts and laying blamete for stalling cleanup efforts. The state attorney general accuses EXXON of destroying documet n h tate is preparing its own lawsuit against EXXON.
o EXXON has no place to put 60 kilotons of oil waste, including 20 tons of dead animals. CCHW recocuments indicating EXXON bought, through foreign agents, the controversial ocean incinerationsiso tSea, Incineration from now-bankrupt Tacoma Boat-Building. These types of ships were bannd orus i U wters and are being banned in Europe. Over a dozen cleanup workers have had to be hspialied or ume.
o EXXON's 1st quarter profits were $1.3B, a drop of 13% from the same quarter last year.
In our usual practice, CCHW checked with network mem- ber groups in AK to see what help they wantedou. Here's some ideas:
To help with the clean-up:
Volunteer hotline: 907/276-3688
Prince Wm Sound Cleanup Fund, c/o AK Conservation Fund, 430 W 7th St, Anchorage, AK 99501
To go after EXXON:
Boycott.. Send your credit card cut in half to Lawrence Rawl (he gets $1.4M for the honor), Chair, 1251 Ave of the Americas, NYC 10020.
Call EXXON and protest (on their nickel, though it actually costs EXXON about $2 a call): 1-800-344 To keep it from happening again:
Support efforts to stop drilling in federal preserves: write Sec Manuel Lujan, Dept of Interior, C Sts., Washington, DC 20240
Help AK Center for the Environment and other groups fighting to get oil field and mining wastes prolas- sified as hazwaste. Write to Wm. Reilly, EPA, 401 M St. NW, Washington, DC 20024.
WORST TOXIC AIR POLLUTERS
These companies, according to their reports to EPA, were ranked by amount of discharged carcinogenicals: 1: Kodak, Rochester, NY 11. Dow, Midland, MI
2: GE Mt. Vernon, IN 12. Westvaco, Covington, VA
3: Upjohn, Portage, MI 13. Heatcraft, Green'ville, MS
4: Eli Lilly, Clinton, IN 14. Hickory Foam, Con'vr, NC
5: Eli Lilly, Shadeland, IN 15. US Steel, Gary, IN
6: Hadco Corp, Nashua, NH 16. Dupont, Towanda, PA
7: AT & T, RIchmond, VA 17. Merck, Albany, GA
8: Alcoa, Riverdale, IA 18. IBM, Endicott, NY
9: Boeing, Wichita, KS 19. GE, Burkville, AL
10: Inland Steel, Lake, IN 20. Norden, Lincoln, NE
EPA fined 42 companies $1.6M total for non-reporting. Based on 1987 industry "best engineering estie- ports to EPA on where 328 chemicals covered by Title III reporting go:
Total emissions: 22.5 billion lbs. from 74,000 plants 9.6B lbs. discharged into waterways; 2.7B lbnto the air; 2.5B lbs. landfilled; 3.2B lbs. dumped in deepwell injection systems; 4.5B lbs. tetdte umped.

BULLETIN BOARD
ALABAMA: Congratulations, CARD! Trouncing the money power of Waste Management and other large dumpessroots groups won legislation putting a 2-yr ban on new dumps in the state. Citizens won on a 76vt n the House (a WMI-backed substitute lost, 50-38)....Waste Management withdrew its appliatonfo aroar kiln hazwaste burner at Emelle and asked instead for a permit for a "Pyrox" burne.

ALASKA: See Exxon stories, page 3

ARIZONA: Pam Swift of TWIG and her pregnant daughter Jennie were handcuffed and roughed up by 2 BFI y guards when they tried to videotape suspicious doings at BFI's medwaste burner in Phoenix (sbeto oplaints from workers and neighbors for foul odors and smoke). Hospital administrator JosphMculy poogzed to Swift and Cty Health Services director Aldolfo Echeveste admitted the guard "oer-eaced....NSC's plan for a comprehensive hazwaste facility near Phoenix is delayed for reiew f deicieciesin is pemit application.

ARKANSAS: ENSCO's HW incinerator in El Dorado blew up on April 20 when its boiler exploded at 3:10 Ause of the time of day, there were no injuries or catastrophic results, as there would have bendrn h day when work crews and waste trucks are normally next to the unit. ENSCO claimed therewa n cus fr larm and that there would be no serious impact on the near-bankrupt company's opertios.

CALIFORNIA: Sacramento voters 53.4% to 46.4% to close the controversial Rancho Seco nuclear power pl1st in the nation!....In a victory for Tri-County Cares, Energy Sec. James Watkins halted ne ltnu-efining operations at the Lawrence Livermore Labs, pending new studies. Pressure from loalgrup ad onerns about the growing contamination scandals at the US A-Bomb plants around the U brugh onthedecsio....Casmalia Resources has been told it will be turned down for permits on is for uninedlandills..Wate Management was ordered by the state to pay $363K in penalties and fx 11 robles atKettlman Hlls...Foster-Wheeler's state of the art garbage burner in Commerce Ciy is o the vrge ofbeing losed or gros violations. They have till Nov. to install 500K in new ati-polltion ger....Pue Metal Corp. ropped ts plans for a toxic metals treat- ment plant...On 718, Irvie City Cuncil OK sweepin ordinane sharpl restricting the use, production of CFCs.

COLORADO: 70 FBI raided DOE/Rockwell Int'l's Rocky Flats A-bomb plant, seizing evidence of illegal din an unprecedented action. DOE denied federal and state investigators access to the site. Invsiain ncluded overflights by federal "spy" planes. Agents also took evidence from DOE's regionl ffceinAluqerque. The "raid," dubbed "Operation Desert Glow," was OK'd after FBI affidavits cargd wstepratics a Rocky Flats were "patently illegal" and DOE statements prevented the publicfromknowng "ust ow rallybad the site is." Neighboring Broomfield sought to divert Walnut Cree, a mjor dschare poit forthe pant, away from town water supply but EPA Regional Office said crek divrsion eeded PA's O. Findngs ofstrontium and cesium show there may have been an uncontroled nuclar reacion at he site since hese elments are only produced by fission and there's no rector at he site.Gov. Romr demandd right f indepedent state inspection. State charged 25 violatons incluing improer HW stoage, storge in leaing drumsand failure to monitor groundwater for cntaminatio. Charges re againstDOE and Rokwell Int'. Rockwel was paid a bonus of $4.6M in the irst half o fiscal 198 for their roduction rcord at theplant. Sinc 1983, Rockwell received DOEbonuses rangng from $3.2 in 1983 to 8.5M in fiscl 1987.

CONNECTICUT: Hartford Courant reports Combustion Engineering's $387M Mid-CT incinerator planners misal officials on costs and technology. In 1982, they told towns costs would be $20/ton when the nwte' be 150% more, told towns they'd use "proven technology" when C-E had never built or opeatd n ncneatr and took local officials on a tour of a Wisc. plant, implying it was THEIR plantwhe its onedby noter company.

FLORIDA: Yea! CCE of Crestview for winning its 3-yr fight to stop a proposed dump....The new FL Allir a Clean Environment links a dozen local groups to take on the wave of massburn proposals in h tt.Een though the Wall Street Journal ridiculed the state's wasting of money on bad projects te rooslsar still coming. FACE plans to make the Jacksonville plan its 1st major campaign....altDisey orl pad $50K in fines for gross HW violations. They also agreed to train workers, labl toics nd ivestgatepotetial further problems at the Epcot Center....Universal Waste Transit o St Ptersbrg isstalld by pposiion to its planned HW treatment plant....State warned Mayport Naal AirStatio to stp pollting ativitis.
GEORGIA: Taylor C'ty residents, buoyed by setting a new all-time victory speed record (seeAB #22), WMI's planned Columbus incinerator in 23.5 hrs, spending $12.63, turned their attention to Go o rn arris. Harris's determination to site a hazwaste burner had, in the past, been greeted wthpoit dssnt However, on Apr. 17, Taylor Countians took off the kid gloves, treating Joe Frankto racusproestrigt at a meeting of the HW M'gnt Authority, over which Joe Frank pres- ides. Te Go. ha to djoun th meeing when residents wouldn't be gavelled silent. While not a complete ictor in iself,this ctionis a urning point where polite, law-abiding Taylor C'ty folks realizethey hve to ight tugh towin.

HAWAII: The state adopted legislation banning plastic beverage can rings which are blamed for causinng death among marine animals....Honolulu joins long list of cities, counties acting to stop syotahwth introduction of packaging ban before city council.

IDAHO: EPA promised local workers who worked at the site would be hired to cleanup US's largest Supeite, a 20-sq. mile, lead-tainted, Kellogg site. But EPA didn't bother to put it out to bid. SoteCtzn Network held a "People's Parade" protest with trucks, tractors, and other equipment locl ols oud av used for the job, if EPA kept its word to allow US's 1st "community cleanup."...Cnstucton f anewpluonium production plant at DOE's contamination-plagued National Labs was signficatly elayd, pndin furher study to clear up community concerns over safety....Westcomp's planed hzwast faciity ae on ndefiite hold.

ILLINOIS: Westinghouse pulled out of its contract to run IL's planned radwaste dump because it was ug to accept terms for pollution liability. The state is now considering Chem-Nuclear (a Waste gtsbiiry). WMI has Chem-Nuclear separately incorporated to avoid liability....ESG Watts Co. plnsfo aliui hzwaste facility in Rock Island has been stalled.

INDIANA: PATI of Bloomington celebrated the likely death of Westinghouse's plan to do the 1st Superfponsible-party cleanup at a profit. Westinghouse wanted to build a massburner, with trash as fe obr CBs in an unproven technology. PATI forced Westing- house & EPA to renegotiate the Recor o Dciio... ishawaka residents blocked developers'annexation plan that'd let nearly 100 condoinims o b bult igh next to a Uniroyal Superfund site.

IOWA: Environmental Advocates of Iowa City did IA's liviest "McToxics" protest on Earth Day, highligA's new solid waste law that could trigger a ban on non- recyclable materials, such as Big Macpcs

KANSAS: 22 protesters were arrested during protests at Racon Chemical, near Wichita. 750 people rallEarth Day in April, to protest Racon which is one of only 5 companies in the US still making zn-iln CFCs.

KENTUCKY: Shortly after the airing of PBS's "Who's Killing Calvert City?", the Coalition for Health scored 2 major victories: 1, BF Goodrich agreed to CHC demands to cut toxic air discharges by7% ,sae denied permits for 60% of the operations of Liquid Waste Disposal....BFI's planned hazase ncneatr n Louisville is on hold.

LOUISIANA: Hurray, SOS of Ascension Parish for end- ing the LONGEST fight against a proposed hazwast It took 10 years, but finally SOS decisively ended IT Corp's efforts to build the world's larethzat facility....Hurray for to the children and PTA of Mande- ville's public schools for banin syrfom n chool cafeterias....Covington citizens ally in fighting a series of dump proposalsis ndeendnt ras haler Sandy Eidam, who's crusaded against big dumpers (e.g. BFI, WMI). Sandy ws sud fo libl afer flingethics charges with the state Bar against City Atty Rykert Toledano an pri-vate ractie parner Mry Grce Knapp alleging unethi- cal contract dealings with a WMI subsiiary. itizen forme a Sanra Eidm Lega Defense Fund (c/o M Scherer, 76496 Carrol Drive, Covingto 70433)... Zytch's. poposed azwasteburner n St Helena Parish is stymied by new state law blockng such ites in opulatedareas.

Marine Shale, "sham recycler," was fined another $2M (see AB #22) and ordered to shut down. It stayspending appeal, and has applied to state for permit to operate 2nd incinerator

MAINE: Biddleford-Saco MPA forced state AG to issue biggest civil penalty to a polluter in ME historK against KTI's massburner for spewing ash all over town. They systematically called the statearpluin officer and mayor at home every time KTI blew its stacks.

MARYLAND: Good work, Dublin-Scarboro Improvement Assn for forcing Harford C'ty to cleanup the old Sclandfill to "meet or exceed every state or federal standard" AND do it under DSIA's supervisio.Oetci used by DSIA was petitioning to get property taxes reduced; some members got taxes loweedby75.
MASSACHUSETTS: "State-of-the-art" SEMASS trash burner in Middleboro was cited by state regulators fs non-compliance with state clean air laws because of foul odors and acid gasses....RESCUE of agsi uhing for similar action at the RESCO incinerator for much the same problems....Largest eersttecrmialfines were ordered against Chase Paper Company of Westborough. Chase was fined $12K fr volaingthestae's HazWaste Mgmt. Act....Mobil was fined $300K, clean up and replace leakin undrgrond sorag tans at75 stations....Carver homeowners with tainted well from the N Carver Lndfil won 50% ut inpropety taes.

MICHIGAN:Augusta Development's hazwaste burner for Lenawee Cty and City Environmental of Detroit liqte facility are stalled....Concerned Citizens of White Lake turned lemons into lemonade. They eedspon- ted, first by their Solid Waste Commission when they came to testify and commissioner ajornd y uring out the lights. Second, they were told by their own state Senator Micky Knighttha "eeryodyin hithall can go to hell" and returned that sentiment during protests in the July4th own arad (Knght as amarcher).

MINNESOTA: Minneapolis joined St. Paul, making the Twin Cities the toughest on non-recyclable food ping. Law now bans all containers that can't be returned, recycled or decompose in landfills...Ya UE inning decisively with Staples voters on a ballot question that blocks Industrial Waste onerio'sprpoed hazwaste burner....Court of Appeal blocked Pollution Control Agency permit of tashburer n Wnon.

MISSISSIPPI: Opposition has stalled United Cement of Artesia from accepting hazwaste for burning.

MISSOURI: St Louis ACORN won 3 toxic cleanups in low-income neighborhoods of the city after a seriesches and sit-ins....State agencies are now barred by law from buying products containing ozonedpeigcemicals under new statute signed into law....BHS, Inc.'s planned expansion of its WrightCiy azase it, due to zoning problems and lack of financing....ETSC's plans for an explosive wate aciitywasdroped

MONTANA: C'ty Commissioners, prodded by residents, called on Governor to revoke Burlington Northern to dump creosote wastes in Paradise....Special Resource Management's planned 5-state regional awsefclity is on indefinite hold.

NATIVE AMERICANS: Hooray for Navajo activists who blocked WasteTech/Amoco's planned hazwaste bur- nereport in AB #22) which would have gone behind the Dilcon Indian School....Yankton Sioux Tribeo Dnxda planned garbage processing plant after a fiasco with a sewage-ash plant. Over 1/4M ton o ah er siped to Edgemont, where the ash was supposed to be

CONDOLENCES
Our sympathies to the families of Ernie Whitehead and Ralph Dunkel. Ernie, despite long illness, bas spouse Corinne Whitehead in her work as leader of the Coalition for Health Concern of Benton Y ap as a founding Board member of ACTION of Circleville, OH and a valued part of the movemen fr nvrometa justice.
processed to extract precious metals as an economic development program. However, "processing equipas never delivered and the area became an illegal ash dump....Wind River tribes of Wyoming de addatority to monitor oilfield waste deepwell inj- ection over EPA arguments it's doing enoug.

NEBRASKA:Concerned Citizens of Boyd County dis- rupted test drilling by US Ecology (a BFI subsidiarye of several proposed radwaste landfill sites....US Ecology faces a $20K fine for improper notfcto fpreliminary testing of the soundness of one of its other sites, in Nuckolls County....Stteisbanig al of landfill- clogging disposable diapers.

NEVADA: John Shanahan's long and lonely fight for justice is starting to pay off. John lost his Eureh after contamination from the neighboring Air Force base (virtually John's ONLY neighbor) kile i ietock. John got a rare, cash settlement to compensate him for his losses....Disposal ContolSeviesdrppd plans for a hazwaste incinerator in Castleton.

NEW MEXICO: Dona Maria C'ty commissioners ord- ered a 2-yr moratorium on new commercial dumps. Alongimilar actions by nearby counties, this stalls Driggs Corp. planned 23,000 acre landfill (the ol' agst) which would be designed to take East Coast garbage....Criminal investigations at Rocy las re vntscheduled Sept. opening of WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) in Carlsbad, NM. Thi cotroersal umpwasto be the permanent site for US A-bomb wastes and it was to open just in tim to revet theateed sut- owns by the Governors of CO & ID of Rocky Flats in CO and the NationalEngineringLab i ID. nlabeled brrels were found at Rocky Flats. These wastes would have to be oened, ested nd repcked bfore sipmentto WIPP, a serious safety hazards to personnel who'd be dong it.
NEW YORK: Way to go, Concerned Argyl Citizens, for blocking BFI's planned 250 acre ash/garbage dump.ictory boosts nearby Greenwich, where residents are fighting BFI's proposed incinerator whose s F lned to dump. In March, Warren Cty Commissioners coun- ter-sued 328 leaders of the Greenwih itzes om. or $1.5M each for alleged damage caused by blocking C'ty from issuing bonds for th prjec. Wshigto C'y supervisors planned to join the suit against the leaders, but under pressue frm thir on costitents with- drew. Meanwhile, Greenwich Citizens are preparing to sue WarrenC'ty or vilatin thei civi righs....Con- gratulations to Concerned Citizens of Sterling for beaing WM's proosed 200 acr dump hich wuld've been right on Lake Ontario. They won in less than 7days!.. RobertMeloni,former 'ger ofC&D Lanfill in Tuxedo went missing over a year ago, just beore he ws to tes tify ina racketering cae agains his former boss, the Sacco family. Meloni's bdy was fond in anoher close dump wit a bulletin his hed. Frank Sacco and nephew Frank Armento leaded guity to rackteering chrges and ae serving ail sentenes. Former DEC staff Sandra White leaded guily to briber; several ohers await rial....In B #22, we aplauded grassroots leader Toi Garufi forher electionas mayor of old Spring wth a mandateto fight forcleanup of Marathon Batery's Superfnd site. The onorable Mayo Garufi kept aith with votrs when the ste owner tried t remove books ontaminated wih cadmium (he sed the site a a ware- housefor wholesale ooks). Ton called out theconsta- bles, bsted the truckes and by issuin an "All PointsBulletin," got N stte police to nab2 trucks that go away for their estination in Knxville. The trucs were made to eurn their taintd cargo to the sie.

NORTH CAROLINA: Congratulations to Rowan Envir- onmental Action for blocking Globe Mfg from locatinencer, after REAP discovered Global was fined $250K at its home plant in MA....Residents of GulodCt rganized and got commissioners to block continued hazwaste operations by Seaboard Chemial..lak orer for Justice hosted a delegation of Bhopal, India victims and conducted protests o thir emads or afeworking conditions at the Schlage Lock Company.

OHIO: Only 2 months after CCHW and Greenpeace rallied 100's of Midwest leaders to support Save Our C fight against a planned E. Liverpool toxic burner, Waste Management dropped purchase plans o h rjc. SOC held off the project for 9 yrs., the longest-running ac- tive fight since the formr ones fgh (ee LOUISIANA) against IT Corp. ended in victory. It looks like SOC's long trial wil son nd n vctoy, oo!...AG Tony Celebreeze is filing charges against GSX (Laidlaw) after a 7/1 Cleelan fir hur 16.Gov eleste wants GSX closed. Firefighters say chemicals at the site were sored n conainer labeled "asty"...Fernald residents won a $73M settlement in their suit over helth, evironmntal dmage fom Natl LeadWestinghouse's weapons plant. Residents had the Inst. for nergy &Environental Rs- earc check OE clais that rad-releases were minimal. IEER found true fiures aremore lik 5-8 tims higherthan DOEs claim 3.1M lbs. of uranium dust released into the comunity beween 195185). Westnghouse cosed Fernld in Jul, a step ahead of being ordered to do soby new "Tier Team" ivestigator from DOE...Last yea, we repored Senate hearings on coverups of llegal rad-waste storae and dischrges at Wriht-Patterso Air Force ase. These violations led tothe 1st everrad- waste fnes against he military y the Nuclea Regulat- or Commission of $102,50 that'll surey strike terrr in the hears of DOD withits half trilion dollar buget.

OKLAHOMA: The United Methodist Conference called on its churches to stop styrofoam use.

JOBS, JOBS, JOBS
After 2-1/2 yrs of service, our Appalachian Field Organizer Linda Meade is moving on. We're lookingr replacement to work for CCHW in serving grassroots groups in the Appalachian Region. We're loigfraperson with organizing experience, knowledge of waste issues and preferably a native Applahin.Deen slary, great benefits, hard but satifying work. If you're interested, send a letterandresme o Lis ibb, CCHW, Box 926, Arlington, VA 22216. CCHW is an affirmative action, equal oportnityemplyer. Envronmntal Action (1525 NH Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036, 202/745-4870) also wants a Toxics Organto wok in heir DC office. Contact them for details.

ADVERTISING
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PENNSYLVANIA: There's a new alliance of groups in PA, the Penn. Environmental Network (PEN). PEN's 1t action was pretty exciting. Members of a dozen W-PA groups rallied at the Pittsburgh DER offc nspot of Concerned Residents of the Yough (CRY). CRY wants to block chronic polluter Mill Sevies Ic.frm imply capping a huge liquid waste lagoon in Yukon. 4 CRY leaders sat in at the DER reusig t leve nti they got a fair hearing and were arrested for trespass when DER complained o th polce. he 4werethenthrown into a holding cell without arraignment, food, water or access o neeed meicine(polie sai theylost their paperwork). When their trial date came, all charges wre disissed hen DE faile to shw up. he angry City Magistrate reprimanded DER and billed them fr courtcosts. he incient ledto Gov.Rob't Csey agreeing to meet with CRY on their demands. ...God work,Tioga Ct Concernd Citizes for blcking a 47 acre landfill proposal in Hamilton Townshi....Way t go, Harmny Townshp Coal- iion, for utting anend to the MEGA medwaste burner plan. Afer meetinginsurmountble communty oppositon, MEGA dopped its lan on May 1st....Congratulations AVE, for blcking BFI/Aerican Ref-uel's propoed $180M Leigh Valley rash burner....Congratulatios, Cindee Viostek, foundr of the Kisi Valley Coaition, for eection to th Apollo City Council. indee campaiged on her plege to continu the fight toclean up Babcck & Wilcox'snotorious radiaton problems frm its Apollo pant....Congratlations to HEL, PACE, CURE, ITIZENS and IMU for defeting the expanson of the Keystne Landfill in anover, one of 4 Superfund sits where the opeatorhas had the audaity to request a expansion permi....Forest City esidents stood teir ground agais PP&L (PA's giat utility) and it plans for a 138-ilovolt powerlineproject that'd manly serve ew ski esorts andWON. The plan woul have wrecked the orest and created nviro-hazards likepestiides sprayed n theright-of -way, as wll as non-ionizing adiation (linked bya NYS Power companytudy to increased ccer rates).
FOOD AND INTERSTATE GARBAGE
Maybe it's pay-back for years of dumping by Easterners on Midwest and Appalachian communities.No maindings by groups in W. PA and Eastern Ohio reveal the disgusting story of truckers carrying Es os abage, medical and infectious waste to OH and PA landfills in "reefer" (refrigerated) truksreur ladd ith food and produce for sale in the East. When asked to comment, PA-DER Waste MaageentComliace hie Leon Kuchin- ski was non-plussed. Kuchinski said he "assumed" the trucks wee adquatly ceane aftr drpping the garbage and before picking up the food and said Kuchinski, afterall, hat i garbge bu justfood?" But haulers report they simply sweep with a push broom an squir with ir frehener.Two grups leding the fight to stop this practice are: CTCCE, Box 117, rifting PA 1684 and DMP, 278 Highlad, Polad, OH 44514. CTCCE testified before Congress on thisissue on7/31. DUP celebrted victry in geting BOT BFI-owned dumps in their county closed. Carbn Limestoe Landfil in Polan, OH was ften cite as a duming ground for reefer trucks.
So long as garbage is defined as "interstate commerce," these wild abuses will continue. Under AI of the US Constitution, only the federal gov't may regulate inter- state commerce. West Virgnafudtis out when it tried to ban out-of-state garbage imports by Executive Order. Federal Coutshae el tatcommercial dumps simply can't be barred from taking out-of-state waste .Sen. Donal Rigle(D-I) ntrducd S.269 to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to bar interstate shipment of olidwast, adressng te Costitutional issue.

PUERTO RICO: Mision Industrial de Puerto Rico (which operates like CCHW on the island nation), celebts 20th Anniversary with a fair and rally in San Juan on 11/19. Info: 809/765-4303.

RHODE ISLAND: Alar, the controversial chemical behind the recent cancerous-apple scare is banned for the state's apple crop.







SOUTH CAROLINA: Congratulations, Ruth Thomas, founder of Environmentalists, Inc. of Columbia for winis year's national Jefferson Award....Ethyl Corp's subsidiary in Elgin was ordered to pay neigbr 50ech for odors from their chemical plant.... ThermalKEM of Rock Hill has been blocked in pan t epad tshazwaste incinerator operation....House Energy and Commerce Committee charged SavanahRivr Abom plnt perator Dupont of ignoring fire protection. At one reactor, the only thing t figt fie wa a grdenhose

SOUTH DAKOTA: Striking a blow for environmental justice, the city of Sioux Falls dropped charges agai-State Mint, Inc and its president over a cyanide spill after the firm agreed to pay a $50 fie

TEXAS: Congratulations for a US 1st! COP of Lone Star not only beat Lone Star Steel's planned HW burt forced Lone Star's HW subsidiary out of business. Con- ceding defeat, Lone Star Steel announe tsloing for buyers for its Thermal Kinetics Inc. subsidary....Fannen C'ty Environmental ProtctonLegu i Wndham got c'ty commissioners to unanimously vote NO to a HW bur- ner planned by Atas owdr o PA USs bggest com- mercial explosives maker....Welcome, GASP, born on the 4th of Jul, a utua aidcoaltionof allas-area groups. Their 1st action was a mock funeral at their Counci of Gv'ts...ConratultionsIRATE& CASE for a great rally against the planned Dixico HW burner whch offcials ay wont be mre harful thn spray-painting a small child's chair. IRATE spray-painte 9 kidde chair (sym- olizing9 nearb school) as protest "props"....Enviro- safe shelved plans fr a hazwste landill in Dvers....After Web C'ty Gand Jury indictments of 7 TX Human Services stff for ovrlooking hild abus, PACE ofKaufman clled for ocal grand jury indictments of TX Water ommission or overlooing toxicsproblems ad causing hild abuse...John Worley, a TX Air Control B. hearing oficer, chared he was frced to chage his findngs on a pla by Paving Supply of Montgoery to av- od discharge ules. Worleyaccused TAC eneral Counsl John Turne of pressuring him to ule in Paver' favor. ....Nclear power cntractor, Bron & Root, allgedly paid $6,000 to two workrs in deals toprevent them fom testifying bout safety prblems at the Cmmanche Peak nclear powe plant in Texas
UTAH: Between 83-7, Army had 8 accidental nerve gas releases from its depot in Tooele, but reported of them to local authorities....Aptus's hazwaste burner permit for Tooele is still stalled.

VERMONT: Landmark bill passed banning sale of air conditioners containing ozone destroying CFCs.

VIRGINIA: It'll cost another $1M to "improve" Ogden's Alexandria state-of-the-art incinerator to cutem- issions, odor....In 1984, CCHW revealed Army electro- magnetic pulse experiments at the Har imn abs in Woodbridge in a dense neighborhood. Experiments test shielding to protect Army eqipen fompuse created by A-bomb blasts. Non-ionizing radiation created by these pulses are linkd t cacerandnerousdisorders. A suit by the Foundation on Economic Trends got the Army to end eperients

WASHINGTON: Environmental Security Control had to resubmit its application for two 25 kiloton hazwasers in Grant County....Led by Spokane anti-massburn forces, citizens won the right to vote on lne nin- erator. But the Mayor and City Council, taking a page from the Chinese Central Commite, se txpye $s to sue its own citizens and stripped them of the right to vote on the issue. Brne oponets re ouning pro- democracy protests around the city. Stay tuned to see if City Hall lazastars lokinglikeTineamen Square.

WEST VIRGINIA: Wise Guy Award goes to MACE of Mason Cty for cleverly grabbing Pyrochem's corporate nrochem wants to build a hazwaste burner in Pt Pleasant, but forgot to register its name in thesae AEfound this out and filed to take the name for a MACE-related "environmental consulting bsies."Ths aynot be the main thing that blocks Pyrochem from coming into Mason Cty, but it tickd tem ff!
WYOMING: 81 Rawhide neighborhood families in Gillette settled their suit against the AMAX Coal Co. gas from mines under the neighborhood forced evacuations and buy-outs....Westcrest neighbors fPre rlling in Casper are threatened by pollution 10,000X more than that which caused resident t lav te rokhurst neighborhood. WY Pollution Posse wants fast action to see how many wells hae ben ontminted
AROUND THE WORLD: Insurers for Waste Mgmt's British subsidiary paid a sum equal to $1.3M to land owmaged by methane gas leakage from one of WMI's dumps....Admiralty Pacific of Seattle plans to ov Sgrage problems by filling up a Marshall Island atoll with garbage....New Soviet environmenalmoemntisheded for victory over Chevron, blocking proposed oil drilling near the Caspian Sea.Nota mmen to son! ravda reports Ukranian farmworker Vasili Primak was injured when he tossed alit igartte nto he Nren iver, igniting a several mile stretch of the river. ...Massive crimina prob is uderwa in Cnada f NY ompanies (Frontier Chemical, Envirosure, Amer. Continental Oil, rie Peroleum WelchEnergy for alegedl adding PCB-waste to gas and oil tankers shipped to Canada Meanwhle, US ustoms ays it ound toic-tained gasoline was shipped from Distillco, Ltd. of Ontaio to Reriever Eergy, a anvel, T refiner. Custom says up to 10M liters of solvent- tainted gaswas shippd from Onario to Txas from pril, 198 to May, 988 according to Canadian reports.
Believe it or not!
Solano County, CA officials found an illegal stockpile of 75,000 gallons of toxic and explosive cheincluding nitric acid, PCBs, benzene, rocket fuel, lead, etc. "You name it, we've got it out hr.W'egt everyhing except plutonium," said deputy DA Mark Pollack. Suspected source: The Pentagn!Baedondoumnts found at the site and labels on containers, the toxics were apparently auctiond of b th miitay a"sur- plus property." Pollack says Richard Armor bought the material at aucton, opin to esel the andillegally stored them for years. Armor, a former arms dealer, now live in Vldez,Alask (a cincidnce) nd agreed to surrender to CA authorities to be charged with violting C HW las. Thecountys alsoinvestgating to determine if DOD auctioned off the material to aoid resonsibilty for afe andlegal dsposal. Corporate Corner (more on pg. 11)
Goodrich may be a hostile takeover target, after rec- ently escaping buy-out by a British industriaow, Centaur Group, which almost bought Pennwalt last year, plans to bid $2.3B for Goodrich....L qian of France DID win the bid for Pennwalt with $1.05B but now the Fed. Trade Comm. wants t hltbu-ot ening review of anti-trust concerns. Merger would give Aquitane world leadership in rodcin florohemcal (e.g. CFCs)....Australian beer & food company Elder IXL is buying up Kerr MGee tockin alikey taeove bid.











DOE Boss Admits "Culture of Mismanagement"
New Energy Secretary James Watkins said a "culture of mismanagement and ineptitude" must be overcore US nuclear weapons plants can comply with environ- mental laws. The system of 17 plants isi iaryas more is learned about leaks, contamination and other ser- ious health and safety probem. atin pomsed to: allow state and OSHA inspections; give contractors 50% bonuses for complyig wth nvionmnta las; hire "Tiger Teams" of investigators to watchdog plants; ask the Nat'l Acdemyof Siencs tospee up ealth evaluations of workers; eliminate bureaucratic obstacles to noncomplance;set u a holine or plnt neighbors and workers to report violations and change a 25-yrpolicyby dislosinghealthinformtion o 600,000 A-bomb workers. Physicians for Social Responsibilty fougt a cout battl for diclosureof healh information. These moves give Watkins a chance to tay a stp ahead f new feeral law mandatig such ations.
Despite these declarations, Watkins is pushing Victor Stello to become DOE's head of nuclear safetreer Nuclear Regulatory Commission bureaucrat, Stello has been the nuclear power industry's daln n cused of single-handedly undermining safety investigations. Said Robert Pollard of the UnonofCocene Sientists: "I worked for him at NRC...He consistently blocked safety moves by the saff heblokedcriina investigations. There is no individual more unsuited for the job." And Jim eardof te Enironenta Polcy Institute: "Nobody has proved he has done anything criminal, but hehas cme clse." n a smilarmanne, the credentials of Diane Kay Morales to become DOE Asst. Sec fr Envionment Healt and Sfety wre attcked. Morales spent 9 yrs as a buyer for the Neiman-MarcusDept. Sore in allas bfore a hort stnt as a"Beltway Bandit" consultant.
Corporate Corner
In its March, '89 report to the Security & Exchange Comm., Waste Management admits it's a "potentiaponsible party" at 85 Superfund sites. Since EPA pegs cleanup costs at an average of $15-20M aeaeprSperfund site, this equals a potential liability of about $1.5B, almost exactly WMI's clame "oo vlu" or its assets. WMI has "claims-made" (basically self-insurance) pollution insuranc toalig $0 mllin. MI says Super- fund liabilities don't threaten its stock value. But 7 top WM exes duped 5,00 shaes wrth about $3.3M. WMI also tryed to expand its European holdings by buyng th Frenh Govt's hzwast compny, PEC Engineer- ing, but was turned down when the French decidd hand ling oxic cemical is "to senstive" to be left to a for profit company. However, WMI didbuy 4 saller H firms n Europ. Brownng-Ferrs, doing its bit, bought 10 European garbage-haulingcompanie. WMI an Dup- on plan tobuild th biggestplastics recycling plant in the US. They held joint nes conferece to annunce plan to open he 1st ofmany operations next year which will proess 40M lb of plasti. Neither upont nor MI will sa where or ow many plants there will be. And FI cut a dal with NJ-ased Wellma, Inc., theUS's larges plastics rcycler, for Wellman to take lastic waste BFI plans t divert fromits waste colections.

ENSCO is apparently saved from impending bankruptcy by an infusion of $30M from Brambles Industries,tralian transportation and waste company.

IT Corp completed sale of leaking hazwaste landfills in Imperial and Bakersfield, CA to GSX/Laidlaw M. This, plus odd cleanup contracts from the Defense Dept. save IT from bankruptcy, at least frawie..Dupont opened its 1st HCFC-123 plant in Mississauga, Ontario. HCFC-123 is a CFC-substitteDuon sysisless harmful to the ozone layer. Issues about worker safety, toxics used as feedstck,rea ozne ffet, tc. remain.... Reichhold Chemical consolidated HQ, research and misc. dep'tsin anew uildng i theReserch Triangle in NC, closing offices in Dover, DE and White Plains, NY.Reichold ws bouht ou a yer agoby Dainippon Ink and Chemical of Japan....Ethyl Corp spunoff itsaluminm, platics ad enery unit to a ew company formed by shareholders....Sterling Chemical andBF Goodich finshed neotiatios for Serling o buy Goodrich's Calvert City, KY plant....Pennzoil old its oldings n Burlinton Resorces leaing to rmors it's looking for other companies to buy (.g Kerr-M Gee, Gooyear, Mapo, Amerad Hess). I the past10 years, Pennzoil gobbled up Getty, Marthon Oil, nd Texas Ol & Gas...Dow Chemicl formed anew unit, estec Energy, specializing in powe and steam eneration... .ERC was iven a $20Mcontract byDOE to helpagency reduce airborne toxicemissions.

Former WMI founder Wayne Huizenga founded US's fastest growing video chain Blockbuster Video, but haanged his ways. Blockbuster stock nose-dived when Wall Street brokers accused him of "cooking"Bokutrs books, using an unrealistic 40-yr write-off of property to cover up the fact Blockbustr anou o mne at the end of '88. Huizenga says he did nothing unusual by using the assumption hs sore wold tan fo 40 years. McDonald's does it too and as Huizenga put it, "Have you ever see a 4 yea oldMcDoalds" Asa matter of fact, Wayne, here's a snap of 1 of 3 remaining 40-yr-old MDs jut befre itwas dmolised:














Crime and Punishment
o John Stirnkorb, former manager of BFI's Williams- burg, OH hazwaste landfill, was convicted iont Cty court on 8 felony and 2 misdemeanor counts of violating OH's hazardous waste laws in 18 hnh upervised illegal dumping into Pleasant Run Creek.
o 3 civilian hazwaste managers forthe Army's Aber- deen Proving Grounds (MD) were convicted in Ffed- eral felony charges of illegal toxic dumping, the 1st such convictions. However, Fed. JudeJh agove ignored prosecutors' call for jail terms and fines. He gave them 3-yr suspended sentncs,noin teyhad unblemished records and didn't commit, in his terms, "one of the worst cases o eniromenal ioltios" for profit.
o EPA is fining Dow $1.3M for failing to give proper notice before starting production on a new ariant of polycarbamate. Dow says it was a "clerical error."
o Pennwalt has been trying to plead guilty of envir- onmental crimes. But the federal judge in t refused to take the guilty plea from underlings. He wants Pennwalt CEO Edwin Tuttle to appeari or nperson.
o US Judge Thelton Henderson ordered the VA to re- hear 35,000 Vietvets' Agent Orange cases, fine VA wrongfully put the burden of proof on vets.
RESOURCES
The next best thing to having Dr. Paul Connett at your rally is to get him on video. Now, There's W which is "The Best Of" our good friend Paul Connett, the MassBurn Messiah, with a discussion okb al For a complete list of all 16 WOW videos and ordering information, write: Video- ActivePrdutins R 2 Box 322, Canton, NY 13617, 315/386-8797.

Testing the Waters is a new film by award- winning filmmaker Lynn Corcoran (who made our favorite fiove Canal, In Our Own Backyard). Lynn's new film focuses on the debate over "How Clean Is Clea? yloig at attempts to cleanup the Niagara River. Contact Bullfrog Films (1-800-543-FROG) for rdrig ndreta info, as well as their great film catalog.

Toxics Communication and Assistance Proj- ect, Albany State College Natural Resources Dept, Albany, 5, 912/430-4811. Contact Barbara Dale Sullivan or Dr. Ellis Sykes. Provides technical help on oist o-income, minority communities.

GARBAGE: The Practical Journal for the Environment (435 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215), starts publicatAugust and looks real interesting. $21/yr.

From Environmental Action (1525 NH Ave NW, Washington 20036, 202/745-4870), the Dynamic Duo: RCRA anTitle III. Suggested donation: $10.

Who's Who of American Toxic Air Polluters: Guide to More Than 1500 Factories in 46 states Emitting Causing Chemicals, $25, NRDC, 1350 New York Ave NW, Washington, DC 20005

Nat'l Recycling Coalition runs a "Peer Match" program to bring people with recycling expertise to greding their expertise. Info: Richard Keller, 301/974-3751 or Jery Yoswein Huntley, 202/371-531. Bcm n Environmental Shopper is a new resource for ecological buying from the PA Resources CounciWrtethm or ordering info: PRC, 25 W 3rd St, Box 88, Media, PA 19063.

Hazardous Neighbors? Living Next Door to Ind- ustry in Greenpoint-Williamsburg, a model report on hoe Community Right-To-Know (Title III). $15 from Hunter College, Community Environmental HealthCne,Bx596, NYC 10010.

Facts About Hazard Communication Standards (how to interpret Material Data Safety Sheets) free. Nat'y Council, 444 N Michigan Ave.,Chicago, IL 60611.

CREDIT CARD USERS: consider using plastic that supports social justice by signing up for VISA or Masd with Working Assets, a leading socially-responsible investment company. Every time you use tecr,te donate 5 cents to social justice groups (and CCHW is one of them). Their interest chargs ndmebeshp ees are among the lowest, too. For information, write Working Assets, 230 Californa S, Sn Fancsco CA94111.

The River City Campaign (5125 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, 412/361-3022) study, The Other Westing: Weapons and Waste details how Westinghouse polluted the environment at its A-bomb factories n tnst make more money by getting tax dollars to clean up its own mess.

Down on the Compost Farm is the latest book from Materials World Publishing, 1089 Curtis, Albany, CA(send for their list).

CALENDAR
August 8: 1st showing of "Dark Circle," a P.O.V. documentary on contamination problems at Rocky Flaother A-Bomb plants. On the Public Broadcasting System. Check local listings.
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Sept 15-16. In Albany, Action for Justice at Love Canal (9/15) and annual conference of the NY Envial Planning Lobby. Info on the confer- ence: Anne Rabe, 518/562-5527. Info on the Love Canal Ato,sep. 1 or call Anne or CCHW (703/276-7070).
Sept 22-4, NYS Conference on the Environment in Binghamton. Info: Amy Zaref, Broome Cty Env Mgmt Co607/772-2116.
Sept 29-Oct 1. Interdenominational Hearings on Toxics in Minority Communities in Albuquerque. Info:anizing Project, 505/247-8832.

Oct. 7-8. Grassroots Convention '89. In Arlington, VA. SEE Insert in this issue for information.

Oct 12-14: 1st Meeting of the People of the Great Lakes, Hamilton, Ontario. Info: Greenpeace Great Lfice, 312/666-3305.
Oct 13-15: "Survival of the Planet: A Challenge to Faith Communities," in Minneapolis. Info: 612/69 Oct 15-17: 10th Annual Conference of the Recycling Council of Ontario in Toronto. Info: Renee Lagas, Box 310, Station A, Toronto, Ontario, CANADA, 416/960-1025 or 800/263-2849
Oct 20-22: Env. Policy Institute's annual citizens' conference on groundwater in Washington. INFO: 8 D St, NW, Washington, DC 20003, 202/544-2600
Oct 31-Nov 3: Nat'l Recycling Coalition Annual Congress, in Charlotte, NC. Info: David Loveland, St NW, #294, Washington, DC 20036
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