EPA's plan for arsenic at Stauffer site flawed Series: GUEST COLUMN STATE Edition
John Hankinson, regional administrator of the EPA in Atlanta, should be ashamed of the letter he sent to the Times concerning cleanup standards for the Stauffer Chemical Superfund site. Apparently hoping that the general public would have neither the information nor the scientific background to see...
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| Published in | St. Petersburg times (Saint Petersburg, Fla. : 1921) |
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| Main Authors | , , |
| Format | Newspaper Article |
| Language | English |
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St. Petersburg, Fla
Times Publishing Company
12.07.1999
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| Summary: | John Hankinson, regional administrator of the EPA in Atlanta, should be ashamed of the letter he sent to the Times concerning cleanup standards for the Stauffer Chemical Superfund site. Apparently hoping that the general public would have neither the information nor the scientific background to see through his poorly constructed rationalizations, he has distorted the facts and spun us a tale meant only to mislead and confuse the issue. First, he attempted to convince us that the cleanup level the EPA has chosen for arsenic in soils (21.1 mg/kg) will be protective of human health and the environment. The basis offered for this conclusion is the EPA's own pseudo-analysis of the potential dangers of exposure to arsenic. He neglected to mention that arsenic is a known human carcinogen. |
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