[CPEO-BIF] New Bedford, Massachusetts demolitions

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Keith activists finally 'talking to the right people'

Jack Spillane,
New Bedford Standard-Times (MA)
September 16, 2009

It's been a long, tough slog for the environmental activists and 
neighborhood residents concerned about environmental issues at the Keith 
Middle School site.

Their warnings that the former Parker Street burn dump was too 
contaminated to build a school on were dismissed out of hand by 
then-Mayor Fred Kalisz. More recently, incumbent Mayor Scott Lang has 
all but accused them of failing to base their objections to city cleanup 
plans on "science."

Even the Environmental Protection Agency, until its first 
African-American director (Lisa Jackson) took over in January, paid them 
scant attention.

But Tuesday, without notification to either the Lang administration or 
the press, James Owens, the director of the Region 1 Office of 
Remediation and Restoration, quietly traveled to the New Bedford office 
of the NAACP to meet firsthand with these "everyman" advocate


....

For the entire column, see
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009909160342#STS=fzoc1vhr.yeu

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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>
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