Dear RECA & All:
Just received this with a message from the California based investigative reporter who has covered our saga here on the rad/Plutonium in OH, Greg Schwartz for years now, that we here at Uniontown IEL Superfund - with top secret nuclear weapons waste buried within a landfill continually free to leach out into our area's groundwater source, may as well just pack it in, according to this latest piece from ProPublica..
No question, there are many who may agree....
Here's my problem: Those of us who have been " on the front lines, who have been in the trenches", now for many decades, through several Administrations, both R's & D's... regardless, day in and day out, fighting for justice and a safe cleanup to protect our respective communities from further poisonings, simply do not have the luxury of giving up......We know too much, we have witnessed far too much sickness , death. We have learned a great deal from caring, decent scientists found within our government - true whistleblowers, just like ones quoted in this story, but in our experience, not merely from US EPA, but from within DOE, Ohio EPA, CDC's ATSDR, along with several independent academics...
What ProPublica describes regarding the Trump/Musk agenda for Big Oil, mining, "AI, revamping nuclear power, etc. etc."..... all of it, apparently needing to feed their voracious requirements to fulfill their coffers/ their energy needs/ their self-serving agendas, ....
I happen to still believe in my fellow Americans, no matter which "color shirt" they wear....because I still believe that they want to see their children and grandchildren grow up healthy - and free... They do not want their precious kiddos to wind up like the poster children we see daily on all the St. Jude's infomercials - battling deadly Leukemia, brain tumors....
No, I for one just don't have the luxury of accepting what ProPublica et al is saying.
How about you all? The Manhattan Project turned the United States, even according to DOE"S very own booklet, into a widespread factory of sorts in order to build the bomb.... Our Americans out West , Eastward to Ohio, all have suffered greatly for many decades' since then, with very little accountability or justice.
What is outlined below in this article, seems to be another version of "The Manhattan Project 2.0..." Is history repeating itself, have we not learned anything?
What always keeps coming back to mind and still relevant I think to this very day are the separate warnings, years' apart, from former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Ohio's Senator John Glenn both saying in eerily similar ways,...( paraphrased)...What is the point in the US government protecting us from enemies from without, IF we, in the process, poison ourselves from within?
Chris for poisoned victims of the Uniontown IEL Superfund Site in Ohio