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December 27, 2013
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Time To Stop Dumping Dangerous Dirt
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long-simmering struggle involving toxic landfill sites in Gloucester County, N.J., may well be repeated around the country.
There, a company called Soil Safe, Inc., has been charged with dumping contaminated materials at two county sites. Many other U.S. counties, it’s believed, face similar circumstances.
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One of the sites is a public park called the Dream Park. The other is a landfill in Logan Township. In the words of the Delaware Riverkeeper Network, the company’s “handling, storage and disposal of solid waste” at the sites “may present an imminent and substantial endangerment to health or the environment”—something it’s already been caught at twice. In 2003, it entered into a consent order with the state and settled a $120,000 fine for, among other things, placing unpermitted contaminated soil in the City of Salem landfill closure. In 2007, Soil Safe was fined for importing over one quarter of a million tons of contaminated soils over their permit limit, a 40 percent overage.
• Used a supposedly safe process for neutralizing contaminated soil that is in fact ineffective. • Dumped “process soil materials” containing elevated levels of a hydrocarbon linked in numerous studies with cancer. • Had its company executives make campaign contributions to New Jersey legislators for years and even retained one who oversees environmental issues.
Delaware Riverkeeper says the company has: • Exceeded the permitted height of a capped portion of the Logan Township facility by adding soils that violate standards.
Fortunately, in addition to e-mailing Congress about this issue at www. house.gov and www.senate.gov, there are several steps you can take to protect the environment. According to the experts at the United States Environmental Protection Agency, these include: •Practice the three R’s-first, reduce how much you use, reuse what you can and then recycle the rest. Finally, dispose of what’s left in the most environmentally friendly way. • Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room. • Use the microwave to cook small meals. It uses less power than an oven. • Have leaky air-conditioning and refrigeration systems repaired. • Insulate your home, water heater and pipes. - (NAPSI)
The Man Behind The Magic I
f you’re like many people who’ve seen Disney movies (and who hasn’t?), especially the new “Saving Mr. Banks” starring Tom Hanks and Emma Thompson about the making of “Mary Poppins,” you may want to know more about the man behind the magic, Walt Disney himself. Well, now you can, in the pages of a fascinating book on this cinematic pioneer who captivated audiences for decades and led a life of imagination, perseverance and optimism that lives on in the hearts and minds of people around the globe. The authors, Pat Williams with Jim Denney of “How To Be Like Walt: Capturing the Disney Magic Every Day of Your Life,” not only develop a unique profile of this icon of family entertainment, they focus on what they call Disney’s learnable skills. They share lessons gleaned from an in-depth study of this icon of American family entertainment covering a broad range of Disney’s ideas—dare the impossible, unleash your imagination, and stay the course by never giving up (“Be a Person of Stick-To-It-Ivity,” as Disney expressed it). As Art Linkletter, who wrote the foreword, puts it, “Of all the books written about Walt Disney, this may be the most important.” - (NAPSI)