EM:/ Dow, EPA and dioxin

Jim,
How would you suggest they bio-remediate it when the dioxin contamination is over 4 feet deep in the floodplain soil alone, God only knows about the river it's self.  Several years ago, DEQ's Andy Hogarth commented something like- 'we kept going deeper and deeper and we didn't stop finding it'....

Kathy Henry
www.trwnews.net 
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: James Lang 
  To: enviro-mich 
  Sent: Wednesday, July 29, 2009 10:49 AM
  Subject: EM:/ Dow, EPA and dioxin


  Enviro-Michers:
   
  Does Dow Chemical have laboratories?  (Does a leopard have spots?)  
   
  Dow should be developing processes such as bioremediation to neutralize dioxin the company has dumped in the Saginaw basin over many years.
   
  If Dow isn't developing that technology, why doesn't EPA order the company to find an antidote to the poison it has wreaked on the Saginaw Valley?  I'll bet a federal district judge would.
   
  Before long, careers that began when the extent of the dioxin threat was first understood will have ended, all while EPA and the Michigan bureaucracies dithered.
   
  What we mustn't forget is that the delay in coming to grips with the contamination in the Saginaw Valley is an abomination.  And without a radically different approach, it will continue.
   
  It's often said that we live under the rule of law, not men, but that doesn't take into consideration the influence of giant corporations like Dow.  Under the deft manipulation of lobbyists and corporate law departments, law is becoming the enemy of justice.
   
  If you have any doubt about that, you need only to look at the example of Exxon Valdez.
   
   --  Jim Lang








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