[CPEO-BIF] "Activists Rally Against School Siting Law Change" in Rhode Island

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Activists Rally Against School Siting Law Change

By FRANK CARINI
ecoRI News (RI)
May 23, 2013 

Environmental activist Lois Gibbs called Rhode Island’s school siting law the best in the nation. (Joanna Detz/ecoRI News)PROVIDENCE — Opponents of a push to repeal a state law enacted last year that prohibits the construction of schools on former industrial sites where there could be toxic vapor intrusion recently brought in a national figure to help make their point.

Lois Gibbs, executive director of the Virginia-based Center for Health, Environment & Justice, but better known for her role in uncovering the late-1970s environmental disaster now simply referred to as Love Canal, was the keynote speaker at a May 22 Environmental Justice League of Rhode Island/Clean Water Action rally on the steps of the Statehouse.

The 35-year environmental activist began her speech congratulating Rhode Island for enacting what she called the nation’s strongest law against building schools on former industrial and manufacturing sites. Gibbs said she has taken the Ocean State’s 2012 bill to Michigan, Massachusetts and New York to promote it as a model.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.ecori.org/social-justice-archive/2013/5/23/activists-rally-against-school-siting-law-change.html

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Lenny Siegel
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