Senior EPA official: Gov't covering up toxicity on Gulf Coast
On today's Morning Sedition:
Hugh Kaufman, Senior Policy Analyst at the EPA's Office of Solid Wastes & Emergency Response. He'll talk with us about why he believes the government is choosing to cover up the reality that the water in NOLA could be contaminated for another 10 years.
This was a shocking interview. As with 9/11, the government is assuring the public that the flood waters in New Orleans aren't really so bad. Kaufman suggests that this administration's contempt of science is in play once again-- and it's the first responders who will pay the price.
Furthermore, with Bush's executive order to suspend the minimum wage in New Orleans, the government is able to hire the very poor at poverty wages-- yet get them to slog through toxic water and muck in the rebuilding effort. The desperate poor are less likely to complain, after all, or burden the medical system with their pesky health coverage.
BAGNewsNotes has a post up that shows some disturbing photos of the toxic floodwater, and some excerpts from articles by those trying to point out the magnitude of the danger.
During the interview, Kaufman pointed out that the notorious Love Canal took ten years to clean up, and it was "tiny" compared to what's happening now.
Hugh Kaufman, Senior Policy Analyst at the EPA's Office of Solid Wastes & Emergency Response. He'll talk with us about why he believes the government is choosing to cover up the reality that the water in NOLA could be contaminated for another 10 years.
This was a shocking interview. As with 9/11, the government is assuring the public that the flood waters in New Orleans aren't really so bad. Kaufman suggests that this administration's contempt of science is in play once again-- and it's the first responders who will pay the price.
Furthermore, with Bush's executive order to suspend the minimum wage in New Orleans, the government is able to hire the very poor at poverty wages-- yet get them to slog through toxic water and muck in the rebuilding effort. The desperate poor are less likely to complain, after all, or burden the medical system with their pesky health coverage.
BAGNewsNotes has a post up that shows some disturbing photos of the toxic floodwater, and some excerpts from articles by those trying to point out the magnitude of the danger.
During the interview, Kaufman pointed out that the notorious Love Canal took ten years to clean up, and it was "tiny" compared to what's happening now.
posted by Matt Sandwich | 7:19 PM
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