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.
                  _________________
 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-terhealth effects study. The Processed Apple Institute, whose member businesses were devastated by theAar scandal, 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, peoplealled to protest the chocolate syrup plastic "can" that slips through sorting at recycling centers,gts melted and wrecks recycling gear. These protests made Hersheys withdraw the package!  Other "80 Ation" opportunities:
 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 and this page: 800-247-7207.
 MARINE SHALE PROCESSORS, INC, to support the efforts of folks in Morgan City, LA to shut down this ham recycler" (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. Inne day, massive tanker spills in the Delaware River, Houston Ship Channel and off Rhode Island's cos made the point the oil industry must be regulated more closely than the Reagan-Bush Administratios ave done. EXXON does not have the great environmental record it claimed it had when the Valdez spll appened. Let's look at the record:
  o Within days of the Alaska spill, Exxon was involved with another spill, this time in Louisiana. X/Laidlaw was barging Exxon waste from Houston and while unloading near Baton Rouge, the barge spli n two, spilling thousands of tons of toxic slime into Bayou Pid- geon. GSX says it didn't know it eeed a license to 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 Washingtostate 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 Was Disposal 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 blamen state for stalling cleanup efforts. The state attorney general accuses EXXON of destroying documet and the state 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 recved documents indicating EXXON bought, through foreign agents, the controversial ocean incinerationsips of At-Sea, Incineration from now-bankrupt Tacoma Boat-Building. These types of ships were bannd or use in US waters and are being banned in Europe. Over a dozen cleanup workers have had to be hspialized for fumes.
   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 wantedrom you. 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, xon, 1251 Ave of the Americas, NYC 10020. 
 Call EXXON and protest (on their nickel, though it actually costs EXXON about $2 a call): 1-800-344355.
 To keep it from happening again:
 Support efforts to stop drilling in federal preserves: write Sec Manuel Lujan, Dept of Interior, C 19th Sts., Washington, DC 20240
 Help AK Center for the Environment and other groups fighting to get oil field and mining wastes prorly clas- 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 carcinogen chemicals: 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 estite" re- 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 lb in into the air; 2.5B lbs. landfilled; 3.2B lbs. dumped in deepwell injection systems; 4.5B lbs. teted then dumped.
 
 BULLETIN BOARD
 ALABAMA: Congratulations, CARD! Trouncing the money power of Waste Management and other large dumpe, grassroots groups won legislation putting a 2-yr ban on new dumps in the state. Citizens won on a 7-6 vote in the House (a WMI-backed substitute lost, 50-38)....Waste Management withdrew its appliaton for a rotary 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 curity guards when they tried to videotape suspicious doings at BFI's medwaste burner in Phoenix (sbect of complaints from workers and neighbors for foul odors and smoke). Hospital administrator JosphMcNulty apologized to Swift and Cty Health Services director Aldolfo Echeveste admitted the guard "oer-reacted."...ENSCO's plan for a comprehensive hazwaste facility near Phoenix is delayed for reiew f deficiencies in its permit application.
 
ARKANSAS: ENSCO's HW incinerator in El Dorado blew up on April 20 when its boiler exploded at 3:10 A Because of the time of day, there were no injuries or catastrophic results, as there would have benduring the day when work crews and waste trucks are normally next to the unit. ENSCO claimed therewa no cause for alarm 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 plt, a 1st in the nation!....In a victory for Tri-County Cares,   Energy Sec. James Watkins halted ne lutonium-refining operations at the Lawrence Livermore Labs, pending new studies. Pressure from loalgroups and concerns about the growing contamination scandals at the US A-Bomb plants around the U brught on the decision....Casmalia Resources has been told it will be turned down for permits on is for unlined landfills...Waste Management was ordered by the state to pay $363K in penalties and fx 11 roblems  at Kettleman Hills....Foster-Wheeler's state of the art garbage burner in Commerce Ciy is o the verge of being closed for gross violations. They have till Nov. to install 500K in new ati-polltion gear....Pure Metals Corp. dropped its plans for a toxic metals treat- ment plant...On 718, Irvie City Council OKd sweeping ordinance sharply restricting the use, production of CFCs.
 
COLORADO: 70 FBI raided DOE/Rockwell Int'l's Rocky Flats A-bomb plant, seizing evidence of illegal dping in an unprecedented action. DOE denied federal and state investigators access to the site. Invsigations included overflights by federal "spy" planes. Agents also took evidence from DOE's regionl ffice in Albuquerque. The "raid," dubbed "Operation Desert Glow," was OK'd after FBI affidavits cargd waste practices at Rocky Flats were "patently illegal" and DOE statements prevented the publicfromknowing "just how really bad the site is."  Neighboring Broomfield sought to divert Walnut Cree, a mjor discharge point for the plant, away from town water supply but EPA Regional Office said crek divrsion needed EPA's OK. Findings of strontium and cesium show there may have been an uncontroled nuclar reaction at the site, since these elements are only produced by fission and there's no rector at he site. Gov. Romer demanded right of independent state inspection. State charged 25 violatons incluing improper HW storage, storage in leaking drums and failure to monitor groundwater for cntaminatio. Charges are against DOE and Rockwell Int'l.  Rockwell was paid a bonus of $4.6M in the irst half o fiscal 1988 for their production record at the plant. Since 1983, Rockwell received DOEbonuses rangng from $3.2M in 1983 to $8.5M in fiscal 1987.
 
CONNECTICUT: Hartford Courant reports Combustion Engineering's $387M Mid-CT incinerator planners misd local officials on costs and technology. In 1982, they told towns costs would be $20/ton when the new they'd be 150% more, told towns they'd use "proven technology" when C-E had never built or opeatd an incinerator and took local officials on a tour of a Wisc. plant, implying it was THEIR plantwhe it's owned by another company.
 
FLORIDA: Yea! CCE of Crestview for winning its 3-yr fight to stop a proposed dump....The new FL Allice for a Clean Environment links a dozen local groups to take on the wave of massburn proposals in h state. Even though the Wall Street Journal ridiculed the state's wasting of money on bad projects te proposals are still coming. FACE plans to make the Jacksonville plan its 1st major campaign....altDisney World paid $150K in fines for gross HW violations. They also agreed to train workers, labl toics and investigate potential further problems at the Epcot Center....Universal Waste Transit o St Ptersburg is stalled by opposition to its planned HW treatment plant....State warned Mayport Naal AirStation to stop polluting activities.
 GEORGIA: Taylor C'ty residents, buoyed by setting a new all-time victory speed record (seeAB #22), ating WMI's planned Columbus incinerator in 23.5 hrs, spending $12.63, turned their attention to Go oe Frank Harris. Harris's determination to site a hazwaste burner had, in the past, been greeted wthpolite dissent. However, on Apr. 17, Taylor Countians took off the kid gloves, treating Joe Frankto  raucus protest right at a meeting of the HW M'gnt Authority, over which Joe Frank pres- ides. Te Go. had to adjourn the meeting when residents wouldn't be gavelled silent. While  not a complete ictor in itself, this action is a turning point where polite, law-abiding Taylor C'ty folks realizethey hve to fight tough to win.
 
HAWAII: The state adopted legislation banning plastic beverage can rings which are blamed for causinchoking death among marine animals....Honolulu joins long list of cities, counties acting to stop syo-trash with 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 Supeund site, a 20-sq. mile, lead-tainted, Kellogg site. But EPA didn't bother to put it out to bid. Sote Citizens Network held a "People's Parade" protest with trucks, tractors, and other equipment locl olks would have used for the job, if EPA kept its word to allow US's 1st "community cleanup."...Cnstuction of a new plutonium production plant at DOE's contamination-plagued National Labs was signficatly delayed, pending further study to clear up community concerns over safety....Westcomp's planed hzwaste facility are on indefinite hold.
 
ILLINOIS: Westinghouse pulled out of its contract to run IL's planned radwaste dump because it was uilling to accept terms for pollution liability. The state is now considering Chem-Nuclear (a Waste gt subsidiary). WMI has Chem-Nuclear separately incorporated to avoid liability....ESG Watts Co. plnsfor a liquid hazwaste facility in Rock Island has been stalled.
 
INDIANA: PATI of Bloomington celebrated the likely death of Westinghouse's plan to do the 1st Superfd responsible-party cleanup at a profit. Westinghouse wanted to build a massburner, with trash as fe to burn PCBs in an unproven technology. PATI forced Westing- house & EPA to renegotiate the Recor o Decision.... Mishawaka residents  blocked developers'annexation plan that'd let nearly 100 condoinims to be built right next to a Uniroyal Superfund site.
 
IOWA: Environmental Advocates of Iowa City did IA's liviest "McToxics" protest on Earth Day, highliging IA's new solid waste law that could trigger a ban on non- recyclable materials, such as Big Macpcks.
 
KANSAS: 22 protesters were arrested during protests at Racon Chemical, near Wichita. 750 people ralld on Earth Day in April,  to protest Racon which is one of only 5 companies in the US still making zne-killing CFCs.
 
KENTUCKY: Shortly after the airing of PBS's "Who's Killing Calvert City?", the Coalition for Health ncern scored 2 major victories: 1, BF Goodrich agreed to CHC demands to cut toxic air discharges by7%, 2, state denied permits for 60% of the operations of Liquid Waste Disposal....BFI's planned hazase incinerator in Louisville is on hold.
 
LOUISIANA: Hurray, SOS of Ascension Parish for end- ing the LONGEST fight against a proposed hazwastsite! It took 10 years, but finally SOS decisively ended IT Corp's efforts to build the world's laret hazwaste facility....Hurray for to the children and PTA of Mande- ville's public schools for banin styrofoam in school cafeterias....Covington citizens ally in fighting a series of dump proposalsis ndependent trash hauler Sandy Eidam, who's crusaded against big dumpers (e.g. BFI, WMI). Sandy ws sud for libel after filing ethics charges with the state Bar against City Atty Rykert Toledano an pri-vate practice partner Mary Grace Knapp alleging unethi- cal contract dealings with a WMI subsiiary. itizens formed a Sandra Eidam Legal Defense Fund (c/o M Scherer, 76496 Carrol Drive, Covingto 70433)... Zytech's. proposed hazwaste burner in St Helena Parish is stymied by new state law blockng such ites in populated areas. 
 
Marine Shale, "sham recycler," was fined another $2M (see AB #22) and ordered to shut down. It stayspen, pending 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 histor $300K against KTI's massburner for spewing ash all over town. They systematically called the statear pollution 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 Scboro landfill to "meet or exceed every state or federal standard" AND do it under DSIA's supervisio.One tactic used by DSIA was petitioning to get property taxes reduced; some members got taxes loweedby 75%.
 MASSACHUSETTS: "State-of-the-art" SEMASS trash burner in Middleboro was cited by state regulators f gross non-compliance with state clean air laws because of foul odors and acid gasses....RESCUE of agus is pushing for similar action at the RESCO incinerator for much the same problems....Largest eerstate criminal fines were ordered against Chase Paper Company of Westborough. Chase was fined $12K fr violating the state's HazWaste Mgmt. Act....Mobil was fined $300K, clean up and replace leakin undrground storage tanks at 75 stations....Carver homeowners with tainted well from the N Carver Lndfil won a 50% cut in property taxes.
 
MICHIGAN:Augusta Development's hazwaste burner for Lenawee Cty and City Environmental of Detroit liqd waste facility are stalled....Concerned Citizens of White Lake turned lemons into lemonade. They ee disappoin- ted, first by their Solid Waste Commission when they came to testify and commissioner ajourned by turning out the lights. Second, they were told by their own state Senator Micky Knighttha "everybody in Whitehall can go to hell" and returned that sentiment during protests in the July4th own parade (Knight was a marcher). 
 
MINNESOTA: Minneapolis joined St. Paul, making the Twin Cities the toughest on non-recyclable food pkag- ing. Law now bans all containers that can't be returned, recycled or decompose in landfills...Ya, PURE, winning decisively with Staples voters on a ballot question that blocks Industrial Waste onersion's proposed hazwaste burner....Court of Appeal blocked Pollution Control Agency permit of tashburner in Winona.
 
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 seriesf marches and sit-ins....State agencies are now barred by law from buying products containing ozonedpleting chemicals under new statute signed into law....BHS, Inc.'s planned expansion of its WrightCiy hazwaste site, due to zoning problems and lack of financing....ETSC's plans for an explosive wate acility was dropped.
 
MONTANA: C'ty Commissioners, prodded by residents, called on Governor to revoke Burlington Northern rmit to dump creosote wastes in Paradise....Special Resource Management's planned 5-state regional awaste facility is on indefinite hold.
 
NATIVE AMERICANS: Hooray for Navajo activists who blocked WasteTech/Amoco's planned hazwaste bur- ne(see report in AB #22) which would have gone behind the Dilcon Indian School....Yankton Sioux Tribeo SD nixed a planned garbage processing plant after a fiasco with a sewage-ash plant. Over 1/4M ton o ash were shipped 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, baed his spouse Corinne Whitehead in her work as leader of the Coalition for Health Concern of Benton Y. Ralph was a founding Board member of ACTION of Circleville, OH and a valued part of the movemen fr environmental justice. 
 processed to extract precious metals as an economic development program. However, "processing equipnt" was never delivered and the area became an illegal ash dump....Wind River tribes of Wyoming  de anded authority 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 subsidiaryat one of several proposed radwaste landfill sites....US Ecology faces a $20K fine for improper notfcation of preliminary testing of the soundness of one of its other sites, in Nuckolls County....Stteis banning sale of landfill- clogging disposable diapers.
 
NEVADA: John Shanahan's long and lonely fight for justice is starting to pay off. John lost his Eure ranch after contamination from the neighboring Air Force base (virtually John's ONLY neighbor) kile his livestock. John got a rare, cash settlement to compensate him for his losses....Disposal ContolServices dropped plans for a hazwaste incinerator in Castleton.
 
NEW MEXICO: Dona Maria C'ty commissioners ord- ered a 2-yr moratorium on new commercial dumps. Alongith similar actions by nearby counties, this stalls Driggs Corp. planned 23,000 acre landfill (the old's largest) which would be designed to take East Coast garbage....Criminal investigations at Rocy lats pre- vent scheduled Sept. opening of WIPP (Waste Isolation Pilot Plant) in Carlsbad, NM. Thi cotroversial dump was to be the permanent site for US A-bomb wastes and it was to open just in tim to revent threatened shut- downs by the Governors of CO & ID of Rocky Flats in CO and the NationalEnginering Lab in ID. Unlabelled barrels were found at Rocky Flats. These wastes would have to be oened, ested and repacked before shipment to 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.his victory boosts nearby Greenwich, where residents are fighting BFI's proposed incinerator whose s BFI planned to dump. In March, Warren Cty Commissioners coun- ter-sued 328 leaders of the Greenwih itizens Comm. for $1.5M each for alleged damage caused by blocking C'ty from issuing bonds for th prject. Washington C'ty supervisors planned to join the suit against the leaders, but under pressue frm their own constituents, with- drew. Meanwhile, Greenwich Citizens are preparing to sue WarrenC'ty or violating their civil rights....Con- gratulations to Concerned Citizens of Sterling for beaing WM's proposed 2800 acre dump which would've been right on Lake Ontario. They won in less than 7days!.. Robert Meloni, former m'ger of C&D Landfill in Tuxedo went missing over a year ago, just beore he ws to tes- tify in a racketeering case against his former boss, the Sacco family. Meloni's bdy was fond in another closed dump with a bullet in his head. Frank Sacco and nephew Frank Armento leaded guity to racketeering charges and are serving jail sentences. Former DEC staff Sandra White leaded guily to bribery; several others await trial....In AB #22, we applauded grassroots leader Toi Garufi forher election as mayor of Cold Spring with a mandate to fight for cleanup of Marathon Batery's Superfnd site. The Honorable Mayor Garufi kept faith with voters when the site owner tried t remove books ontaminated with cadmium (he used the site as a ware- house for wholesale books). Ton called out theconsta- bles, busted the truckers and by issuing an "All Points Bulletin," got TN stte police to nab2 trucks that got away for their destination in Knoxville. The trucks were made to eturn their taintd cargo to the site.
 
NORTH CAROLINA: Congratulations to Rowan  Envir- onmental Action for blocking Globe Mfg from locatinin Spencer, after REAP discovered Global was fined $250K at its home plant in MA....Residents of Gulord C'ty organized and got commissioners to block continued  hazwaste operations by Seaboard Chemial..Black Workers for Justice hosted a delegation of Bhopal, India victims and conducted protests o thir demands for safe working conditions at the Schlage Lock Company.
 
OHIO: Only 2 months after CCHW and Greenpeace rallied 100's of Midwest leaders to support Save Our Cnty's fight against a planned E. Liverpool toxic burner,  Waste Management dropped purchase plans o he project. SOC held off the project for 9 yrs., the longest-running ac- tive fight since the formr ongest fight (see LOUISIANA) against IT Corp. ended in victory. It looks like SOC's long trial wil son end in victory, too!...AG Tony Celebreeze is filing charges against GSX (Laidlaw) after a 7/1 Cleeland fire hurt 16. Gov Celeste wants GSX closed. Firefighters say chemicals at the site were sored n containers labelled "Nasty"....Fernald residents won a $73M settlement in their suit over helth, evironmental damage from Nat'l Lead/Westinghouse's weapons plant. Residents had the Inst. for nergy &Environmental Res- earch check DOE claims that rad-releases were minimal. IEER found true fiures aremore like 5-8 times higher than DOE's claim (3.1M lbs. of uranium dust released into the comunity beween 1951-85). Westinghouse closed Fernald in July, a step ahead of being ordered to do soby new "Tier Team" investigators from DOE....Last year, we reported Senate hearings on coverups of llegal rad-waste storage and discharges at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. These violations led tothe 1st everrad- waste fines against the military by the Nuclear Regulat- ory Commission of $102,50 that'll surey strike terror in the hearts of DOD with its half trillion dollar budget.
 
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 lookingor her replacement to work for CCHW in serving grassroots groups in the Appalachian Region. We're loing for a person with organizing experience, knowledge of waste issues and preferably a native Applahian. Decent salary, great benefits, hard but satifying work. If you're interested, send a letterandresume to Lois Gibbs, CCHW, Box 926, Arlington, VA 22216. CCHW is an affirmative action, equal oportnity employer.
 Environmental Action (1525 NH Ave NW, Washington, DC 20036, 202/745-4870) also wants a Toxics Organer to work in their DC office. Contact them for details.
 
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PENNSYLVANIA: There's a new alliance of groups in PA, the Penn. Environmental Network (PEN). PEN's 1 joint action was pretty exciting. Members of a dozen W-PA groups rallied at the Pittsburgh DER offc in support of Concerned Residents of the Yough (CRY). CRY wants to block chronic polluter Mill Sevies, Inc. from simply capping a huge liquid waste lagoon in Yukon. 4 CRY leaders sat in at the DER reusing to leave until they got a fair hearing and were arrested for trespass when DER complained o th police. The 4 were then thrown into a holding cell without arraignment, food, water or access o neeed medicine (police said they lost their paperwork). When their trial date came, all charges wre disissed when DER failed to show up. The angry City Magistrate reprimanded DER and billed them fr courtcosts. The incident led to Gov. Rob't Casey agreeing to meet with CRY on their demands. ...God work,Tioga Cty Concerned Citizens for blocking a 147 acre landfill proposal in Hamilton  Townshi....Way t go, Harmony Township Coal- ition, for putting an end to the MEGA medwaste burner plan. Afer meetinginsurmountable community opposition, MEGA dropped its plan on May 1st....Congratulations AVE, for blcking BFI/American Ref-fuel's proposed $180M Lehigh Valley trash burner....Congratulatios, Cindee Viostek, founder of the Kiski Valley Coalition, for election to the Apollo City Council. indee campaiged on her pledge to continue the fight to clean up Babcock & Wilcox's notorious radiaton problems frm its Apollo plant....Congratulations to HELP, PACE, CURE, CITIZENS and IMWU for defeting the expanson of the Keystone Landfill in Hanover, one of 14 Superfund sites where the operatorhas had the audaity to request an expansion permit....Forest City residents stood their ground agaist PP&L (PA's giat utility) and its plans for a 138-kilovolt powerline project that'd mainly serve ew ski resorts andWON. The plan would have wrecked the forest and created enviro-hazards like pestiides sprayed on theright-of -way, as well as non-ionizing radiation (linked by a NYS Power company tudy to increased cacer rates).
 FOOD AND INTERSTATE GARBAGE
 Maybe it's pay-back for years of dumping by Easterners on Midwest and Appalachian communities.No maer, findings by groups in W. PA and Eastern Ohio reveal the disgusting story of truckers carrying Es Coast garbage, medical and infectious waste to OH and PA landfills in "reefer" (refrigerated) truksreturn loaded with food and produce for sale in the East.  When asked to comment, PA-DER Waste Maageent Compliance chief Leon Kuchin- ski was non-plussed. Kuchinski said he "assumed" the trucks wee adquately cleaned after dropping the garbage and before picking up the food and  said Kuchinski, afterall, what is garbage but just food?" But haulers report they simply sweep with a push broom an squir with air freshener. Two groups leading the fight to stop this practice are: CTCCE, Box 117, rifting PA 16834 and DUMP, 2782 Highland, Poland, OH 44514. CTCCE testified before Congress on thisissue on7/31. DUMP celebrated victory in getting BOTH  BFI-owned dumps in their county closed. Carbn Limestoe Landfill in Poland, OH was often cited as a dumping ground for reefer trucks.
    So long as garbage is defined as "interstate commerce," these wild abuses will continue. Under Aicle I of the US Constitution, only the federal gov't may regulate inter- state commerce. West Virgna found this out when it tried to ban out-of-state garbage imports by Executive Order. Federal Coutshave held that commercial dumps simply can't be barred from taking out-of-state waste .Sen. Donal Rigle (D-MI) introduced S.269 to amend the Solid Waste Disposal Act to bar interstate shipment of olidwaste, addressing the Constitutional issue.
 
PUERTO RICO: Mision Industrial de Puerto Rico (which operates like CCHW on the island nation), celebtes its 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 forse on the state's apple crop.
 
 









SOUTH CAROLINA: Congratulations, Ruth Thomas, founder of Environmentalists, Inc. of Columbia for winng this year's national Jefferson Award....Ethyl Corp's subsidiary in Elgin was ordered to pay neigbrs $500 each for odors from their chemical plant.... ThermalKEM of Rock Hill has been blocked in pan to expand its hazwaste incinerator operation....House Energy and Commerce Committee charged SavanahRiver A-bomb plant operator Dupont of ignoring fire protection. At one reactor, the only thing t figt fire was a garden hose.  
 
SOUTH DAKOTA: Striking a blow for environmental justice, the city of Sioux Falls dropped charges agast Tri-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 burr, but forced Lone Star's HW subsidiary out of business. Con- ceding defeat, Lone Star Steel announe it's looking for buyers for its Thermal Kinetics Inc. subsidary....Fannen C'ty Environmental Protcton League in Wyndham got c'ty commissioners to unanimously vote NO to a HW bur- ner planned by Atas owder of PA, US's biggest com- mercial explosives maker....Welcome, GASP, born on the 4th of Jul, a utual aid coalition of  Dallas-area groups. Their 1st action was a mock funeral at their Counci of Gv'ts....Congratulations IRATE & CASE for a great rally against the planned Dixico HW burner whch offcials say won't be more harmful than spray-painting a small child's chair. IRATE spray-painte 9 kidde chairs (sym- bolizing 9 nearby schools) as protest "props"....Enviro- safe shelved plans fr a hazwste landfill in Devers.... After Webb C'ty Grand Jury indictments of 7 TX Human Services stff for ovrlooking child abuse, PACE of Kaufman called for local grand jury indictments of TX Water ommission or overlooking toxics problems and causing child abuse....John Worley, a TX Air Control B. hearing oficer, charged he was forced to change his findings on a plea by Paving Supply of Montgoery to av- od discharge rules. Worley accused TAC General Counsel John Turney of pressuring him to ule in Paver' favor. ....Nuclear power contractor, Brown & Root, allegedly paid $65,000 to two workrs in deals toprevent them from testifying about safety problems at the Commanche Peak nuclear powe plant in Texas 
 UTAH: Between 83-7, Army had 8 accidental nerve gas releases from its depot in Tooele, but reportednly 2 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 cuttack em- issions, odor....In 1984, CCHW revealed Army electro- magnetic pulse experiments at the Har Diamond Labs in Woodbridge in a dense neighborhood. Experiments test shielding to protect Army eqipent from pulses created by A-bomb blasts. Non-ionizing radiation created by these pulses are linkd t cancer and nervous disorders. 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 hazwas burners in Grant County....Led by Spokane anti-massburn forces, citizens won the right to vote on  lanned incin- erator. But the Mayor and City Council, taking a page from the Chinese Central Commite, used taxpayer $s to sue its own citizens and stripped them of the right to vote on the issue. Brne opponents are mounting pro- democracy protests around the city. Stay tuned to see if City Hall lazastarts looking like Tinenamen Square.
 
WEST VIRGINIA: Wise Guy Award goes to MACE of Mason Cty for cleverly grabbing Pyrochem's corporate ne. Pyrochem wants to build a hazwaste burner in Pt Pleasant, but forgot to register its name in thesate. MACE found this out and filed to take the name for a MACE-related "environmental consulting bsiess." This may not be the main thing that blocks Pyrochem from coming into Mason Cty, but it tickd tem off!
 
WYOMING: 81 Rawhide neighborhood families in Gillette settled their suit against the AMAX Coal Co.  thane gas from mines under the neighborhood forced evacuations and buy-outs....Westcrest neighbors fParker Drilling in Casper are threatened by pollution 10,000X more than that which caused resident t leave the Brookhurst neighborhood. WY Pollution Posse wants fast action to see how many wells hae ben contaminated.
 AROUND THE WORLD: Insurers for Waste Mgmt's British subsidiary paid a sum equal to $1.3M to land owrs damaged by methane gas leakage from one of WMI's dumps....Admiralty Pacific of Seattle plans to ove US garbage problems by filling up a Marshall Island atoll with garbage....New Soviet environmenalmovement is headed for victory over Chevron, blocking proposed oil drilling near the Caspian Sea.Nota moment too soon! Pravda reports Ukranian farmworker Vasili Primak was injured when he tossed alit igarette into the Noren River, igniting a several mile stretch of the river. ...Massive crimina prob is underway in Canada of NY companies (Frontier Chemical, Envirosure, Amer. Continental Oil, rie Peroleum, Welch Energy) for allegedly adding PCB-waste to gas and oil tankers shipped to Canada Meanwhle, US Customs says it found toxic-tainted gasoline was shipped from Distillco, Ltd. of Ontaio to Reriever Energy, a Manvel, TX refinery. Customs says up to 10M liters of solvent- tainted gaswas shippd from Ontario to Texas from April, 1986 to May, 1988 according to Canadian reports.
              Believe it or not!
 Solano County, CA officials found an illegal stockpile of 75,000 gallons of toxic and explosive checals including nitric acid, PCBs, benzene, rocket fuel, lead, etc. "You name it, we've got it out hr. We've got everyhing except plutonium," said deputy DA Mark Pollack. Suspected source: The Pentagn!Based on documents found at the site and labels on containers, the toxics were apparently auctiond of by the military as"sur- plus property." Pollack says Richard Armor bought the material at aucton, oping to resell them and illegally stored them for years. Armor, a former arms dealer, now live in Vldez, Alaska (a coincidence) and agreed to surrender to CA authorities to be charged with violting C HW laws. The county's also investigating to determine if DOD auctioned off the material to aoid resonsibility for safe and legal disposal.
   Corporate Corner (more on pg. 11)
 Goodrich may be a hostile takeover target, after rec- ently escaping buy-out by a British industriast. Now, Centaur Group, which almost bought Pennwalt last year, plans to bid $2.3B for Goodrich....L Aquitaine of France DID win the bid for Pennwalt with $1.05B but now the Fed. Trade Comm. wants t hlt buy-out pending review of anti-trust concerns. Merger would give Aquitane world leadership in rodcing fluorochemicals (e.g. CFCs)....Australian beer & food company Elder IXL is buying up Kerr MGee tock in a likely takeover bid.
 















DOE Boss Admits "Culture of Mismanagement"
  New Energy Secretary James Watkins said a "culture of mismanagement and ineptitude"  must be overce before US nuclear weapons plants can comply with environ- mental laws. The system of 17 plants isi disarray as more is learned about leaks, contamination and other ser- ious health and safety probem. Watkins promised to: allow state and OSHA inspections; give contractors 50% bonuses for complyig wth environmental laws; hire  "Tiger Teams" of investigators to watchdog plants; ask the Nat'l Acdemyof Sciences to speed up health evaluations of workers;  eliminate bureaucratic obstacles to noncomplance; set up a hotline for plant neighbors and workers to report violations and change a 25-yrpolicyby disclosing health information on 600,000 A-bomb workers. Physicians for Social Responsibilty fougt a court battle for disclosure of health information. These moves give Watkins a chance to tay a stp ahead of new federal laws mandating such actions.
  Despite these declarations, Watkins is pushing Victor Stello to become DOE's head of nuclear safet A career Nuclear Regulatory Commission bureaucrat, Stello has been the nuclear power industry's dalng and accused of single-handedly undermining safety investigations. Said Robert Pollard of the Unonof Concerned Scientists: "I worked for him at NRC...He consistently blocked safety moves by the saff he blocked criminal investigations. There is no individual more unsuited for the job." And Jim eardof the Environmental Policy Institute: "Nobody has proved he has done anything criminal, but hehas cme close." In a similar manner, the credentials of Diane Kay Morales to become DOE Asst. Sec fr Envionment, Health and Safety were attacked. Morales spent 9 yrs as a buyer for the Neiman-MarcusDept. Sore in Dallas before a short stint as a "Beltway Bandit" consultant.
  Corporate Corner
 In its March, '89 report to the Security & Exchange Comm., Waste Management admits it's a "potentiay responsible party" at 85 Superfund sites. Since EPA pegs cleanup costs at an average of $15-20M aeage per Superfund site, this equals a potential liability of about $1.5B, almost exactly WMI's clame "book value" for its assets. WMI has "claims-made" (basically self-insurance) pollution insuranc toaling $10 million. WMI says Super- fund liabilities don't threaten its stock value. But 7 top WM exes dumped 75,000 shares worth about $3.3M. WMI also tryed to expand its European holdings by buyng th French Gov't's hazwaste company, PEC Engineer- ing, but was turned down when the French decidd hand ling toxic chemicals is "too sensitive" to be left to a for profit company. However, WMI didbuy 4 saller HW firms in Europe. Browning-Ferris, doing its bit, bought 10 European garbage-haulingcompanie. WMI and Dup- ont plan to build the biggest plastics recycling plant in the US. They held  joint nes conference to announce plans to open the 1st of many operations next year which will proess 40M lb of plastic. Neither Dupont nor WMI will say where or how many plants there will be. And FI  cut a dal with NJ-based Wellman, Inc., the US's largest plastics recycler, for Wellman to take lastic waste BFI plans to divert from its waste collections.  
 
ENSCO is apparently saved from impending bankruptcy by an infusion of $30M from Brambles Industries,n Australian transportation and waste company.
 
IT Corp completed sale of leaking hazwaste landfills in Imperial and Bakersfield, CA to GSX/Laidlaw r $85M. This, plus odd cleanup contracts from the Defense Dept. save IT from bankruptcy, at least fra while....Dupont opened its 1st HCFC-123 plant in Mississauga, Ontario. HCFC-123 is a CFC-substitteDupont says is less harmful to the ozone layer. Issues about worker safety, toxics used as feedstck,real ozone effect, etc. remain.... Reichhold Chemical consolidated HQ, research and misc. dep'tsin anew building in the Research Triangle in NC, closing offices in Dover, DE and White Plains, NY.Reichold was bought out a year ago by Dainippon Ink and Chemical of Japan....Ethyl Corp spunoff itsaluminm, plastics and energy units to a new company formed by shareholders....Sterling Chemical andBF Goodich finished negotiations for Sterling to buy Goodrich's Calvert City, KY plant....Pennzoil old its oldings in Burlington Resources leading to rumors it's looking for other companies to buy (.g Kerr-M Gee, Goodyear, Mapco, Amerada Hess). In the past 10 years, Pennzoil gobbled up Getty, Marthon Oil, nd Texas Oil & Gas....Dow Chemical formed a new unit, Destec Energy, specializing in powe and steam eneration.... .ERC was given a $20M contract by DOE to help agency reduce airborne toxicemissions.
 
Former WMI founder Wayne Huizenga founded US's fastest growing video chain Blockbuster Video, but ha't changed his ways. Blockbuster stock nose-dived when Wall Street brokers accused him of "cooking"Bockbuster's books, using an unrealistic 40-yr write-off of property to cover up the fact Blockbustr an out of money at the end of '88. Huizenga says he did nothing unusual by using the assumption hs sores would stand for 40 years. McDonald's does it too and as Huizenga put it, "Have you ever see a 4 year old McDonalds?" As a matter of fact, Wayne, here's a snap of 1 of 3 remaining 40-yr-old MDs jut before it was demolished:
 




















Crime and Punishment
    o John Stirnkorb, former manager of BFI's Williams- burg, OH  hazwaste landfill, was convicted iClermont Cty court on 8 felony and 2 misdemeanor counts of violating OH's hazardous waste laws in 18 when he supervised illegal dumping into Pleasant Run Creek.
    o 3 civilian hazwaste managers forthe Army's Aber- deen Proving Grounds (MD) were convicted in F. of fed- eral felony charges of illegal toxic dumping, the 1st such convictions. However, Fed. JudeJohn Hargrove ignored prosecutors' call for jail terms and fines. He gave them 3-yr suspended sentncs, noting they had unblemished records and didn't commit, in his terms, "one of the worst cases o enironmental violations" for profit.
    o EPA is fining Dow $1.3M for failing to give proper notice before starting production on a new xic variant 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 case refused to take the guilty plea from underlings. He wants Pennwalt CEO Edwin Tuttle to appeari court in person.
    o US Judge Thelton Henderson ordered the VA to re- hear 35,000 Vietvets' Agent Orange cases, finng the 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 #16, which is "The Best Of" our good friend Paul Connett, the MassBurn Messiah, with a discussion ok by Paul. For a complete list of all 16 WOW videos and ordering information, write: Video- ActivePrductions, Rt 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 fi on Love Canal, In Our Own Backyard). Lynn's new film focuses on the debate over "How Clean Is Clea? by looking at attempts to cleanup the Niagara River. Contact Bullfrog Films (1-800-543-FROG) for rdring and rental info, as well as their great film catalog. 
 
Toxics Communication and Assistance Proj- ect, Albany State College Natural Resources Dept, Albany,  31705, 912/430-4811. Contact Barbara Dale Sullivan or Dr. Ellis Sykes. Provides technical help on oics to low-income, minority communities.
 
GARBAGE: The Practical Journal for the Environment (435 9th St, Brooklyn, NY 11215), starts publicatn in August and looks real interesting. $21/yr.
 
From Environmental Action (1525 NH Ave NW, Washington 20036, 202/745-4870), the Dynamic Duo: RCRA anSARA Title III. Suggested donation: $10.
 
Who's Who of American Toxic Air Polluters: Guide to More Than 1500 Factories in 46 states Emitting Ccer-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 grps needing their expertise. Info: Richard Keller, 301/974-3751 or Jery Yoswein Huntley, 202/371-531. 
Become an Environmental Shopper is a new resource for ecological buying from the PA Resources Counci Write them for 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 hoto use Community Right-To-Know (Title III). $15 from Hunter College, Community Environmental HealthCnter, Box 596, NYC 10010. 
 
Facts About Hazard Communication Standards (how to interpret Material Data Safety Sheets) free. Nat'Safety Council, 444 N Michigan Ave.,Chicago, IL  60611.
 
CREDIT CARD USERS: consider using plastic that supports social justice by signing up for VISA or Masr Card with Working Assets, a leading socially-responsible investment company. Every time you use tecard, they donate 5 cents to social justice groups (and CCHW is one of them). Their interest chargs nd membership fees are among the lowest, too. For information, write Working Assets, 230 Californa S, San Francisco, CA 94111. 
 
The River City Campaign (5125 Penn Ave, Pittsburgh, PA 15224, 412/361-3022) study, The Other Westinghouse: Weapons and Waste details how Westinghouse polluted the environment at its A-bomb factories n stands to 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, CA4706 (send for their list). 
 
                CALENDAR
 August 8: 1st showing of "Dark Circle," a P.O.V. documentary on contamination problems at Rocky Fla and other 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 Envinmental Planning Lobby. Info on the confer- ence: Anne Rabe, 518/562-5527. Info on the Love Canal Aton, see pg. 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 Cocil, 607/772-2116.
 Sept 29-Oct 1. Interdenominational Hearings on Toxics in Minority Communities in Albuquerque. Info:W Organizing 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 Les Office, 312/666-3305.
 Oct 13-15: "Survival of the Planet: A Challenge to Faith Communities," in Minneapolis. Info: 612/690349
 Oct 15-17: 10th Annual Conference of the Recycling Council of Ontario in Toronto. Info: Renee Lagas, RCO, 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: I, 218 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, 18 M St NW, #294, Washington, DC 20036
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