[CPEO-BIF] Chattanooga, Tennesee job-training program

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Training not helping minorities, critic says


By Pam Sohn
Chattanooga Times Free Press (TN)
November 21, 2010

A long-time Chattanooga Creek activist is concerned that a $200,000 
federal grant he helped obtain to send community minorities to hazardous 
materials cleanup training classes isn't prompting any minority jobs on 
local cleanups.

"Look around; they don't have any minorities working. I don't understand 
why. That's the intent of the program," Milt Jackson said recently after 
visiting the asbestos removal and cleanup at the former Anchor Glass 
facility on 45th Street in Alton Park.

The Alton Park neighborhood is home to several contaminated sites that 
could be reclaimed and used by new businesses. Such properties are 
dubbed brownfields by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/nov/21/training-not-helping-minorities-critic-says/?local

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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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