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Dirty Dozen Awards
Past Dirty Dozen Awards
2007 Dirty Dozen Award Winners
May 22, 2007 Groups Unveil New York’s “Dirty Dozen” Awards. “Winners” Asked to Step Up and Make Necessary Changes media release | summary of winners | photos
• Entergy Nuclear Corp. for radioactive leaks at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, Buchanan.
Contact: Tim Judson, Citizens Awareness Network, (315) 425-0430, <tim@nukebusters.org>
How long must we wait for the closure of Indian Point? Radioactive leaks into the ground water, no accepted regional evacuation plan, no long-term storage facility for the plant’s waste—you’d think this was enough to close the plant….
• Food Industry Alliance for sponsorship of the phony "New Yorkers for Real Recycling Reform" to oppose the Bigger Better Bottle Bill, Albany. Contact: Laura Haight/Collin Thomas, NYPIRG, (518) 436-0876, <lhaight@nypirg.org>
Just when NYS most needs an updated Bottle Bill, this trade association attempts to fool the public.
• USEPA Headquarters and Region 2 for failure to conduct adequate testing and clean-up of buildings near Ground Zero, NYC. Contact: Kimberly Flynn, 9/11 Environmental Action and WTC Community-Labor Coalition, (917) 647-7074, flynnktm@aol.com
By now we all know the truth: the EPA let us down in the aftermath of 9/11….
• NYS Department of Environmental Conservation, Division of Natural Resources, for failure to adequately fund the toxicological testing program of the Wildlife Pathology Laboratory, Albany. Contact: Ellen Connett, Fluoride Action Network Pesticides Project, (315) 379-9200, <pesticides@fluoridealert.org>
New Yorkers do not know enough about what’s killing their wildlife, and thus about possible threats to their own health. Ignorance is not bliss….
• Lower Manhattan Development Corp. for inadequate clean-up plan for the Deutsche Bank building at Ground Zero prior to demolition. Contact: Joel Kupferman, NY Environmental Law and Justice Project, (212) 334-5551, <envjoel@ix.netcom.com>
Over five years after 9/11, and the LMDC puts forth a potentially dangerous demolition plan for the former Deuthsche Bank building.
• NYC Department of Sanitation for failure to adequately prevent waste, reuse, recycle, and compost, NYC. Contact: Barbara Warren, Staten Island Citizens for Clean Air, (845) 754-7951, <warrenba@msn.com>
Despite all the exciting possibilities for moving towards a zero waste economy in NYC, the Department of Sanitation would rather bury than recycle your waste.
• City of Albany for proposed expansion of Rapp Rd. landfill into the Pine Bush. Contact: Lynn Jackson, Save the Pine Bush,
Addicted to the revenues from its landfill, the City appears incapable of instituting a solid waste policy for the 21st century.
• NYS Agriculture & Markets for preventing localities from regulating factory farms/concentrated animal feeding operations in NYS
At a time when the small family farm is under threat across the state, the answer is NOT to preempt local control of CAFOs.
• EPA Region 2 for failure to protect and remediate toxic pollution in Onondaga Lake. Contact: Joyce King, Haudenosaunee Environmental Task Force, (518) 358-3381, <joyceking@westelcom.com>
Decades after the poisoning of the Lake, the EPA still cannot manage to get it cleaned-up.
• CWM Services, LLC for PCB leaks from its hazardous waste landfill, Niagara County. Contact: Amy Witryol, Niagara-Health Science Report, (716) 754-1434, amyville@adelphia.net
The one-and-only operating hazardous waste landfill in the state survives only through the importation of toxic waste from out-of-state, and out of the country….
• General Electric Co. for failure to fully remediate the Dewey Loeffel landfill, Town of Nassau. Contact: Kelly Travers-Main, UNCAGED, (518) 732-0334, <ktm@berk.cm>
Rensselaer County residents have waited too long for GE to do the right thing….
• J.J. Lyons and Associates for failure to pay fines and failure to adequately remediate a former defense contractor site at 1440 Story Avenue, Bronx. Contact: Mary McKinney, The Concerned Residents Organization, (718) 842-7487, <cro880@yahoo.com>
Bringing former defense contractor sites back on the tax rolls is a good idea; but first we need them cleaned-up.
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