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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Mephisto who wrote (9024)	1/1/2002 6:17:47 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

a toxic waste dump? I think we [or Monsanto] missed an opportunity.... Monsanto Hid Decades Of Pollution PCBs Drenched Ala. Town, But No One Was Ever Told By Michael Grunwald Washington Post Staff Writer Tuesday, January 1, 2002; Page A01 ANNISTON, Ala. -- On the west side of Anniston, the poor side of Anniston, the people ate dirt. They called it "Alabama clay" and cooked it for extra flavor. They also grew berries in their gardens, raised hogs in their back yards, caught bass in the murky streams where their children swam and played and were baptized. They didn't know their dirt and yards and bass and kids -- along with the acrid air they breathed -- were all contaminated with chemicals. They didn't know they lived in one of the most polluted patches of America. Now they know. They also know that for nearly 40 years, while producing the now-banned industrial coolants known as PCBs at a local factory, Monsanto Co. routinely discharged toxic waste into a west Anniston creek and dumped millions of pounds of PCBs into oozing open-pit landfills. And thousands of pages of Monsanto documents -- many emblazoned with warnings such as "CONFIDENTIAL: Read and Destroy" -- show that for decades, the corporate giant concealed what it did and what it knew...... ...."I'm really pretty proud of what we did," Kaley [Robert Kaley, the environmental affairs director for Solutia who also serves as the PCB expert for the American Chemistry Council] said. "Was it perfect? No. Could we be second-guessed? Sure. But I think we mostly did what any company would do, even today." Full article at...http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46648-2001Dec31.html So what do we get from the Bush Administration...they want "voluntary compliance" with environmental regulations...that'll be a big help. jttmab