[CPEO-BIF] Going Green in Urban America

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Submitted by Evans Paull <epaull@nemw.org>


Let's Add Some Color to the Greening of America

By Mick Dumke
Washington Post
September 16, 2007; B02

CHICAGO

For some people, "going green" is more than just a trendy cause, a way 
to score points on the campaign trail or a means to achieve the abstract 
goal of preserving nature for future generations.

For neighborhoods such as Chicago's Little Village, it's a matter of 
survival.

Standing on an abandoned railroad bridge over the Chicago Sanitary and 
Ship Canal, Lilian Molina points to a mechanical claw scooping coal from 
a barge. A conveyor belt drops the coal into a nearby energy plant that 
will provide power to homes across the city. But it also spews nitrogen 
oxide, sulfur dioxide and mercury, which eventually turn to toxic smog 
and soot and taint waterways.

Those who live in this mostly Latino neighborhood also have to worry 
about the steel-drum reprocessing facility around the corner. It emits 
glycol ether, which causes eye and skin irritation, anemia and birth 
defects. Another empty lot is a federal Superfund site, and another has 
an old oil-storage tank buried in contaminated soil.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/14/AR2007091401970.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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