The following may be especially relevant to those concerned with the toxic chemicals used by the Morse Chain company (now owned by Emerson Power Transmission) in the South Hill area. (After investigation, the site is now officially classified as "a significant threat to human health or the environment; action is required.")
TCE Activist-Author Lenny Siegel to Speak in Ithaca August 1st ITHACA, July 22, 2007 Lenny Siegel, a nationally-known TCE activist and author from Mountain View, CA will be in Ithaca August 1st to speak, answer questions, and entertain discussion on the industrial solvent TCE (trichloroethene). The public meeting with Siegel will be on Wednesday August 1, at 7:00 p.m., in the Livesay Conference Room at the Tompkins County Social Services Building, 320 W. State St., across from the City Health Club in downtown Ithaca. Lenny Siegel has been Executive Director of the Center for Public Environmental Oversight (see their website, http://www.cpeo.org) since 1994. He is one of the environmental movements leading experts on both military facility contamination and the vapor intrusion pathway, and for his organization he runs three Internet newsgroups: the Military Environmental Forum, the Brownfields Internet Forum, and the Installation Reuse Forum. Siegel, who has given testimony before committees of the U.S. Congress and Senate, is a member of several advisory committees, including the Interstate Technology & Regulatory Council's work teams on Vapor Intrusion and Perchlorate, (until recently) the National Research Council Committee on Army Non-Stockpile Chemical Materiel Demilitarization, and the Moffett Field (former Moffett Naval Air Station) Restoration Advisory Board. The Center for Public Environmental Oversight (CPEO) is an organization that promotes and facilitates public participation in the oversight of environmental activities, including but not limited to the remediation of federal facilities, private "Superfund" sites, and Brownfields. It was formed in 1992 as CAREER/PRO (the California Economic Recovery and Environmental Restoration Project) by the San Francisco Urban Institute, in response to the large number of military base closures in the San Francisco Bay Area. It draws upon the nearly three decades of work led by CPEO Director Lenny Siegel at the Pacific Studies Center, a non-profit public interest information center in nearby Mountain View, California. Pete Meyers TC Workers' Center 115 E. State Street Ithaca, NY 14850 607-269-0409 www.TCWorkersCenter.org "As long as there is a lower class, I am in it. As long as there is a criminal element, I'm of it. As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free." -Eugene Debs --------------------------------- Building a website is a piece of cake. Yahoo! Small Business gives you all the tools to get online. _______________________________________________ RSS, archives, subscription & listserv information for: [email protected] http://lists.mutualaid.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainabletompkins free hosting by http://www.mutualaid.org
