california owne
Junior Member
What is the name of your state? California.
There is an industrial company near an elementry school my mom works at. It's less than 2 blocks away. My mom found out the neighbors have been fighting to get the company shut down for years. We learned that the chemicals they use are carciogenic. The AQMD is doing NOTHING, they will not give the company a violation or check it out unless there are six callers (a day). At a hearing earlier this month month, the AQMD was against the industrial company. The AQMD did not have many facts straight and at the begining of the second day of the hearing a board member said out loud "I am angry that the prosecutor (for the AQMD) approached me after the hearing yesterday asking me to go easy on the (industrial company)." So, we believe the AQMD is being paid off. They have programs like pollution trading and give out emission credits allowing big companies to 'buy' credits which allow them to pollute the area. The defense attorny told a witness that even if a hearing board agreed to shut down the company, they would go to a judge to have it overruled and a judge would have to do it since the AQMD hasn't given out any violations.
There will be a hearing in a couple of weeks at the chamber of commerce. My mother (and other people) are afraid to speak up because these industrial workers have become very angry about maybe losing their jobs. Who knows what could happen. A reporter wrote an article about it in a local paper and she said she has received a lot of phone calls from the workers angry about her story.
Does anyone know who is above the AQMD? I tried to call the department of health services in California and the person got really quiet when I mentioned pollution trading credits.
I checked this site, http://www.arb.ca.gov/app/emsinv/facinfo/facinfo.php
Does anyone know of anywhere else online I can find data to use againt the company at the meeting. I don't think just words are going to work. The AQMD isn't doing anything and I learned the AQMD was sued in 2003 over their pollution trading system. So something is wrong here.
http://www.ocefoundation.org/press-092903_2.html
There is an industrial company near an elementry school my mom works at. It's less than 2 blocks away. My mom found out the neighbors have been fighting to get the company shut down for years. We learned that the chemicals they use are carciogenic. The AQMD is doing NOTHING, they will not give the company a violation or check it out unless there are six callers (a day). At a hearing earlier this month month, the AQMD was against the industrial company. The AQMD did not have many facts straight and at the begining of the second day of the hearing a board member said out loud "I am angry that the prosecutor (for the AQMD) approached me after the hearing yesterday asking me to go easy on the (industrial company)." So, we believe the AQMD is being paid off. They have programs like pollution trading and give out emission credits allowing big companies to 'buy' credits which allow them to pollute the area. The defense attorny told a witness that even if a hearing board agreed to shut down the company, they would go to a judge to have it overruled and a judge would have to do it since the AQMD hasn't given out any violations.
There will be a hearing in a couple of weeks at the chamber of commerce. My mother (and other people) are afraid to speak up because these industrial workers have become very angry about maybe losing their jobs. Who knows what could happen. A reporter wrote an article about it in a local paper and she said she has received a lot of phone calls from the workers angry about her story.
Does anyone know who is above the AQMD? I tried to call the department of health services in California and the person got really quiet when I mentioned pollution trading credits.
I checked this site, http://www.arb.ca.gov/app/emsinv/facinfo/facinfo.php
Does anyone know of anywhere else online I can find data to use againt the company at the meeting. I don't think just words are going to work. The AQMD isn't doing anything and I learned the AQMD was sued in 2003 over their pollution trading system. So something is wrong here.
http://www.ocefoundation.org/press-092903_2.html