[CPEO-BIF] Zeneca & UC Field Station, Richmond, California

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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