Problems so small that they must be largely fabricated.
Yes. And the EPA’s CO2 regulations will almost immediately move landfills out of poor neighborhoods and into beverly hills.
Nuclear waste does not go into community landfills. Some industrial minor nuclear waste (i.e. radium from painting luminous watches) has in the past but it has been MINOR. I work in this area.
Poor people often could only afford to buy poor land (near river banks, delta, etc. Factories also were sited on poor land and they did pollute the environment. That is why there are CERCLA and RCRA laws to address this, at the state and federal level.
The concept of “environmental justice” is about 40-50 years old, but was the subject of a major push in the South by the Communist Party USA in the 1980’s, led by CP leader Anne Braden (SCEF, SIPO/TIPO, SOCEJ), and sympathizer Rev. Benajmin Chavis (NAARPR - CP front, NAACP, and Nation of Islam, in that order).
Lisa Jackson is a protege’ of marxist former EPA administrator and Obama commissar,Carol Browner (ISO). And she is just as fanatical in her approach to environmental issues to the point that she is part of the Obama regime’s plan to basically wreck the US economy (coal industry, railroads, nuclear energy, oil industry/offshore drilling, power plants, etc).
People whose land has been polluted desire to have it cleaned up and there are established laws and procedures at all levels of government to do this. And it is happening, as I can attest to after nearly 20 years of working in this area.
A lot of good people in the govt are working to clean up the environment but a handful of leftist fanatics are directing these projects into a fullscale attack on the free enterprise system, regardless of the unemployment it is causing, and will cause. Some of these people are taking these laws to the extreme, a fascist or communistic extreme, with destructive results to you and me. Just look at what the US Fish and WildLife agency has been doing in the past few months. Its leaders and policies are absolutely out of control, and innocent people are suffering from criminal prosecutions for things they didn’t do.
BIG BROTHER is here but these environmental fascists are led by BIG MOTHERS, fanatical women who espouse and practice totalitarian approaches on dealing with environmental issues.
And it is only going to get worse until Nov. 2012.