[CPEO-BIF] Harbor Point union demonstration, Baltimore, Maryland

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Union calls for independent review of Harbor Point toxins  
Demonstration held after EPA called for more information Friday

By Ian Duncan
Baltimore Sun (MD)
November 2, 2013

Union organizers called on the developers of the Harbor Point site to  
submit to an outside environmental review, staging a small  
demonstration Saturday with a pair of workers dressed in hazmat suit  
costumes.

Morgan Webb Battista, an organizer with the Service Employees  
International Union, pointed to questions the Environmental  
Protection Agency raised Friday about the Beatty Development Group's  
plan to deal with contamination at the former chromium ore processing  
site. The union members are calling for an independent review apart  
from government oversight already in place.

"When you're talking about potentially toxic chemicals … it's an  
important matter," Battista said.

A cap of soil, gravel and plastic is buried under Harbor Point to  
keep chemicals left behind after the chromium plant closed in the  
1980s from leaching into the air and water. To construct the condos  
and offices planned for the site, builders have to pierce that layer  
of protection to drive pilings.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-city/bs-md-ci- 
harbor-point-protest-20131102,0,3555993.story

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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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