The ground work is being laid to kick off a Superfund campaign in the next
few months that will be in collaboration with USPIRG and several other
organizations. We are in the midst of trying to compile a list of about 10
Superfund sites across the country that exemplify the worst of the worst
egregious sites (program poster children).
In order to do so, we are asking for nominations for such sites. While I
know most of you do not work on Superfund or Toxics, I am hoping that you
have a good pulse on the local community around you and can take just a few
minutes and list a site or two in your area that is particularly bad and
have the surrounding communities upset. To define this, we are looking for
sites that affect groundwater widely, are contaminated by radiation, has
chemical contamination, was a pesticide company, a very large mine, or air
pollution contamination.
These sites should be very detrimental to the community, have a minimum
amount of political baggage, and affect health and the environment
preferably. It would also be helpful if the site had some grassroots
activists working on it or at least a neighborhood group behind it.
Please send your nominations to me, at [log in to unmask], so
that they can be considered for placement in our list. If possible, please
include the EPA name of the site, location (city, state, and county),
congressional district, and possibly local people who can speak to the
frank nastiness of the site and its affects on the community.
Thank you for your time and help with this!
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Jessica F. Frohman
Sierra Club National Conservation Organizer
Environmental Quality Program
408 C Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002
Phone: 202.548.4595
Fax: 202.547.6009
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www.sierraclub.org
Erin E. Jordahl
Director, Iowa Chapter Sierra Club
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA 50310
515-277-8868
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