2009 CPEO Brownfields List Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:41:58 -0700 (PDT)
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Subject: [CPEO-BIF] Zeneca & UC Field Station, Richmond, California
 
Richmond Toxic Oversight Panel Gets Mixed Message From State

By Richard Brenneman
Berkeley Daily Planet (CA)
June 18, 2009

What began as a heated confrontation ended with qualified applause for the state's top environmental cop during last week's meeting of the citizen panel advising the state about the cleanup of toxic sites in South Richmond.

Last Thursday's meeting (June 11) brought other news, both good and potentially bad.

On the potentially negative side, the state Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) itself may cease to exist as an independent agency with its own enforcement powers if pending legislation is enacted that would merge the agency with the state Integrated Waste Management Board to create a new Department of Toxics and Waste Management.

The new agency would be headed by a Pollution Prevention and Recycling Board.

That proposal, pushed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, is now before the state Legislature.

On a more positive note, DTSC enforcement chief Gale Filter promised to bring a representative of the federal Environmental Protection Agency to Richmond in August to discuss a possible U.S. takeover of cleanup oversight.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-06-18/article/33172?headline=Richmond-Toxic-Oversight-Panel-Gets-Mixed-Message-From-State

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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