[CPEO-MEF] PERCHLORATE - Protestests seek voice in Rialto (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Protesters seek voice in Rialto, Colton perchlorate talks


By DOUGLAS QUAN
Riverside Press-Enterprise (CA)
February 1, 2008

Waving placards that read "No back door deals" and "We demand clean up 
now," about 15 Rialto residents and environmental activists gathered in 
downtown Riverside on Friday to complain that they were being shut out 
of negotiations over the region's largest unabated groundwater pollution 
case.

In November, officials with the Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control 
Board began holding closed talks with three companies accused of 
contributing to perchlorate pollution over the past 55 years in Rialto 
and Colton.

"We find it outrageous that public policy is being conducted behind 
closed doors in secret meetings," said Penny Newman, executive director 
of the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.pe.com/localnews/sbcounty/stories/PE_News_Local_S_perch02.41cd8db.html

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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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