Braunschweig in aller Munde

Braunschweig bekannt in den USA dank eines bekannten Österreichers, heute wieder dank eines NPD Bürgermeisters und seine tricks im Umgang mit Atommüll.
Natürlich hat er damit nichts zu tun,das hatte der Führer damals auch nicht,geschweige seine Helfer und Helfeshelfer.

Stop German Radioactive Waste Imports for Burning in Oak Ridge

Tennessee Groups Request State Public Hearings



NASHVILLE, TN (2/14/11) The Tennessee Environmental Council, Citizens to End Nuclear Dumping in Tennessee (ENDIT!), and the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance submitted a formal request on January 27, 2011, to the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s Division of Radiological Health. The petition asks for a public review of the impacts on public health and environmental well-being of the proposed expansion of the Duratek Bear Creek incinerator, an EnergySolutions subsidiary. This expansion comes as EnergySolutions has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license to import 1000 tons of radioactive waste from Germany for burning in Oak Ridge.

The groups are concerned that if this plan is implemented, Tennessee will become a destination for radioactive waste from all over the world. EnergySolutions has previously applied to import 20,000 tons of Italian nuclear waste to Oak Ridge for processing, including burning, melting and compaction. Tennessee processors already receive 75% of the nation’s low level radioactive waste, some 41 million pounds per year. Tennessee is the only state that routinely releases millions of pounds of materials from radioactive waste processors into municipal landfills every year, some 4 million pounds in 2009.

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Duratek, a division of EnergySolutions, has responded that the request to expand its operation has nothing to do with their request to import more foreign radioactive waste. “Essentially the response to our petition for a public hearing amounts to a claim that they have plenty of radioactive waste to burn apart from the EnergySolutions' request to bring in foreign waste. If so, it is even more important for the public to hear about the growth of radioactive waste incineration to which EnergySolutions now proposes to add foreign waste,” said Brian Paddock, one of the lawyers for the petitioners. “Duratek and EnergySolutions wants us to sit down and shut up, but we think folks have right to know more about this proposal to expand incineration of radwaste in our backyard,” said Paddock.

The Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) has not responded to the hearing Request.

Paddock added, “The people of Tennessee and Oak Ridge are being exposed to risks from these activities without a chance to speak up in any public participation process. Many Tennesseans are unaware of the activities of this controversial industry all across the state with TDEC’s permission, while TDEC dodges its legal mandate to provide information on radiological health to the public.”

“Incineration of radioactive materials is not done in most of the nation and the world, but Tennessee is increasingly becoming a destination for this practice. The Germans are a worldwide leader in toxic waste incineration, yet they seek to send their radioactive waste here to burn. If it is safe, why don’t they burn it themselves?” asks Don Safer of the Tennessee Environmental Council.

The EnergySolutions incinerators have been operating since around 1990 and have never undergone a comprehensive environmental impact analysis. They are licensed by the state to burn radioactive materials “in any form as suitable for transport under Department of Transportation regulations.”

“In light of the movement to offer incineration services to radioactive waste generators from all over the world, it is time for the state to conduct an in-depth health and environmental analysis of the issue, including air and water pollution, employee exposure, energy and water usage, and public safety. The US Nuclear Regulatory Commission ordinarily does not consider issues of public health before granting radwaste import licenses which allow tons of radioactive materials to come into our ports, across our highways and into incinerators like those in Oak Ridge. It is up to the state to protect the welfare of its citizens,” Safer added.

DON'T WASTE TENNESSEE!

Protect the Citizens by Exercising Appropriate Authority
to Keep Our Air Clean and Safe

OAK RIDGE ENVIRONMENTAL PEACE ALLIANCE calls on the State of Tennessee's Department of Environment and Conservation and the officers of Radiation Health to take steps to protect the air in East Tennessee by exercising regulatory authority to prevent EnergySolutions from importing 2,000,000 pounds of radioactive waste from unnamed European sources to be incinerated in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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OAK RIDGE, TN (2/28/11) On January 19, 2011, the state of Utah issued a Notice of Violation and proposed fine to EnergySolutions for its action in importing waste into the state of Utah in violation of statute limitations. The state’s NOV cites EnergySolutions for violations related to waste generated by five different companies, two in Tennessee. The violations occurred over a three week period, from February 26-March 16, 2010. The violations involving Oak Ridge companies were classified as Severity Level III violations. The first, involving Bechtel Jacobs, asserts that EnergySolutions accepted 16 containers of waste in 8 different shipments that exceeded allowable limits for Class A waste; the containers were shipped as Class A waste. The second violation, involving the Materials and Energy Corporation, asserts that EnergySolutions accepted three drums of material containing Special Nuclear Material (weapons grade Highly Enriched Uranium) that exceeded limits by 28%.

These violations are not isolated events. They appear to be “business as usual” for EnergySolutions, involving numerous source companies and spread out over three weeks. They document a conduct of operations at EnergySolutions that presents a clear threat to public health and safety. We are not questioning whether EnergySolutions can be trusted to import waste into Tennessee. We are saying these Notice of Violations indicate clearly the company can not be trusted. For that reason, we are calling on the state of Tennessee to exercise aggressive oversight, to intervene with the Southeast compact and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and, if necessary, in courts, to protect the people of East Tennessee.

EnergySolutions has demonstrated that it can not be trusted to do the simplest and most basic thing — to know what waste it is dealing with. To date, EnergySolutions has declined to provide detailed information about the waste they intend to import from Germany — either because they can not or will not. This is unacceptable. It places the people of the state of Tennessee at risk.

Whether these violations are malfeasance, sloppiness, or general incompetence is not the issue. The issue is if they make a mistake with the waste they bring to Tennessee and burn, what comes out of the stack could kill people. A company with five notices of violation, from five separate companies over a three week period, can not be trusted. So we are asking the state of Tennessee to step in and assert its authority to protect us, and, if they are unable or unwilling to do that, we believe the state should defer to the Environmental Protection Agency. Those of us who live downwind from the incinerators in Oak Ridge have a right, under the Clean Air Act, to expect the air we breathe to be free of radioactive materials. We can not be confident of that if a waste company that behaves like EnergySolutions has free license to conduct business as usual—since their usual business is obviously to break the law. These violations just represent five times they got caught.

OREPA calls on the state to reset its policy on nuclear waste imports and to adopt a “hands on” stance. The people of the state of Tennessee expect you to do everything necessary to protect us before our air and our health are compromised. We are counting on you.

We look forward to a prompt response to these concerns, and thank you in advance for your attention to this call.
Contact: Ralph Hutchison, OREPA Coordinator, 865-776-5050


GERMAN RADIOACTIVE WASTE TO OAK RIDGE FOR BURNING?
by Don Safer, Tennessee Environmental Council board chairman

EnergySolutions wants to burn up to 1000 tons of radioactive waste materials from Germany in Oak Ridge at its Bear Creek incinerators. EnergySolutions has applied to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission for a license (IW029) to import the material over a five-year period beginning in 2011 from a German waste accumulator, Eckert and Ziegler Nuclitec.

Burning does not reduce the amount of radiation, just the volume of the contaminated material, so the resulting ash has much higher concentrations of dangerous radiation. Workplace exposure is a serious concern. There is also the reality of radiation slipping past the smokestack filters and entering the air in very fine particulate size both routinely and accidentally. Incineration is a questionable method of waste disposal. Even burning household waste creates dioxins and furans, some of the most toxic man-made substances.

According to a 2007 article in Spiegel Online the world’s best high-tech hazardous waste incinerators are in Germany. Much toxic waste is imported into Germany for incineration. Why allow this radioactive waste material to be burned in Tennessee if they will not do it in Germany? They are a world leader in incineration. What do they know that we do not?

The radioactive waste is being identified by EnergySolutions as “incinerable dry material.” The material is estimated to be 44% plastic, 30% paper, 10% wood, and 10% textiles. EnergySolutions states that the waste coming to Tennessee was generated exclusively in Germany. Eckert and Ziegler says that it collects materials from all over the world. How will the origin of the waste be verified?

The German waste would be transported by boat from Germany to either Portsmouth or Norfolk, Virginia and continue its journey by truck to Oak Ridge. The ash is planned to be returned to Germany by the same route. It is unclear how much of the radiation will remain in the U.S. but “residual radioactive materials”, including the fly ash, floor sweepings, booties, slag, and the contaminated air filters will be disposed domestically under terms of the operating license. This could result in some of these materials ending up in Tennessee municipal landfills under the Bulk Survey for Release program.
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It is also possible that Germany would refuse to accept the waste once they are rid of it and it might be abandoned here. Details are so vague that the NRC asked for more details including countries of origin, specific description of the materials, how it was created, and how much and what type of radiation. The questions and EnergySolutions answers are enclosed.

The import/export license is currently being considered by the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Despite public opposition, and the fact that a bill to prohibit the importation of foreign radioactive waste easily passed the US House with bi-partisan support last year (but not the Senate) they would be likely to approve the application. NRC rules would have to be waived for them to even consider the health, public safety, and environmental issues. Because Tennessee is an agreement state, those issues need to be addressed by the State of Tennessee.

The EnergySolutions Bear Creek incinerators have been licensed by TDEC’s Division of Radiological Health (DRH) since around 1990. The incinerators have been operated by a series of companies; EnergySolutions acquired the facility from Duratek. The license was last renewed in 2003, the term is usually 10 years, however it might be possible to initiate a new relicensing cycle at this time. The Division of Air Pollution Control is also involved in licensing.

EnergySolutions has applied to the DRH on December 28, 2010, to amend the license of the Bear Creek Incinerators (R-73008-C14) with an increase in site financial assurance, changes in shared radioactive material activity possession limits, and an updated drawing of the perimeter fence monitoring locations. The financial assurance limits are being raised because they want to add 45,600 square feet to the assured work areas. It has been impossible to determine the amount of increase in radioactivity allowed to be on-site because of the redaction of the data that DRH says it is required to do under NRC SUNSI (sensitive security related information) rules. It also has not been possible to determine the amounts and types of radiation that the incinerators are currently authorized to burn because of SUNSI rules. I do not know if the requested changes are essential for Energy Solutions to move forward with the proposal.

EnergySolutions response to question 2 from the NRC’s enclosed RAI states: “EnergySolutions’ Tennessee Radioactive Materials License explicitly authorizes possession and processing of radioactive materials in ‘any form as suitable for transport under DOT regulations.’” This would appear to be a questionable standard to apply to a judgment of appropriateness and safety for incineration.

EnergySolutions has previously tried to import 20,000 tons of Italian radioactive waste to Oak Ridge for processing. That plan would have disposed of the remainder of the processed waste in a landfill in Utah. EnergySolutions has withdrawn this proposal. It has apparently decided to try a different business model that has the waste going back to the country of origin. If they are successful in establishing this new plan it is probable that they will begin to bring in radioactivity from more and more foreign countries. Tennessee is in danger of becoming a world wide destination for radioactive waste.
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Der Ami zumindest weiß jetzt ganz genau,dass der ganze Dreck, sei es politisch oder von Atomkraftwerken hier in Braunschweig lagert.

Nuclear Disposal in Tennessee
By Donnie Safer, Chairman of the Board

Tennessee is at the forefront of states that host radioactive waste processing facilities. In fact, we are way ahead of the pack and headed into a class of our own…an “honor” that should be of great concern to most of our citizens. I am concerned that many Tennesseans do not realize our unique and growing role in ongoing attempts to dispose of some of the nuclear industrys difficult problems. The multinational corporate owners who are leading this charge have been clamoring for more domestic and international waste processing. They want to bring the nations and the worlds radioactive waste here to Tennessee.

Residents of Tennessee need to become better educated about existing nuclear disposal programs and procedures, pending proposals and pilot projects, because these all fit together to greatly increase radioactive waste processing in our state, which has potential consequences for the health, safety, economy and quality of life of all our citizens.

Tennessee is the only state that routinely “facilitates” the disposal of previously controlled radioactive materials under a program called Bulk Survey for Release (BSFR). We have six radioactive waste incinerators (sometimes called heat treatment, pyrolysis, or thermal processing). This is many more than any other state, with another to be added soon. We have radioactive waste processing facilities not only in and near Oak Ridge but across the state, from Memphis to Erwin.

A radioactive waste dump in Barnwell, South Carolina closed to all but 3 states, and since that time there have been no Class B and C disposal options for waste generated by nuclear power plants from 36 states. (Classes B and C are more radioactive than Class A waste, but far less radioactive than the used fuel rods that are currently stored at every nuclear power plant in the United States, including TVAs three reactors in Tennessee and three in Northern Alabama.)

Two competing processes have been proposed by different companies to solve this waste disposal problem, both of which lead to and through Tennessee. The first is a processing plant in Erwin, TN that subjects Class B and C radioactive ion exchange resins to heat and steam. It vaporizes the organic matter, reducing the volume by 95%. What is left is formed into “hockey pucks” of very concentrated radioactive material. These pucks are intended to be disposed of in a West Texas landfill that has not yet received official approval to accept this kind of nuclear waste.

The second plan is to transport enough of the less radioactive Class A waste to Oak Ridge where it will be mixed with Class B and C waste, magically resulting in a mixture that retains the Class A designation. (This is called “downblending” and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is currently considering allowing it to happen.) The plan further calls for this Class A waste to be sent to Utah for disposal. Residents of the State of Utah, along with its Governor and Radiation Control Board, have objected strenuously to this plan. If either or both proposals become fully operational we will see a significant increase in the volume of radioactive waste shipments across our state.

While there are very few radioactive waste incinerators operating in the rest of the United States, Tennessees seventh radioactive waste incinerator is currently being finished and brought into operation in Oak Ridge. Incineration of radioactive materials does not reduce the amount of radioactivity; it just reduces the volume. Many governments have denied permission to build radioactive waste incinerators because of health concerns and public opposition. Plans for radioactive waste incinerators were stopped by citizen health and safety concerns in Memphis and Erwin.

Additionally, 20,000 tons of radioactive waste from the abandoned nuclear power industry in Italy are slated to be transported to Oak Ridge for processing. Approval for this proposal is pending, awaiting results of a legal battle that has raged between the processor and dumper and the state of Utah. If we (the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, the Congress, the State Legislature, the Governor, the people) allow this to occur, Oak Ridge will certainly become the nuclear waste destination for shipments from around the world. The US House of Representatives recently passed a bill sponsored by Representative Gordon that will prohibit the importation of foreign radioactive waste. Senator Alexander is the sponsor in the Senate. Contact Senator Alexander to thank him for that, and ask that he move the bill forward.

It is important to recognize that our state, nation and planet have “Superfund” magnitude clean up sites that tell the history of radioactive waste processing. Many of these are being cleaned up at a snails pace with an astronomical cost. This is in contrast to industry claims of “low-risk,” clean, safe facilities. Radioactive releases from processing have been common and are a threat to public health. These threats persist for many hundreds and thousands of years depending on the half-life of the individual radionuclide that is released. Many radionuclides are bio-available and enter our bodies through the food chain. Children and the unborn are most at risk for cancers or birth defects caused by this radiation.

If all this alarms you, contact the Governor, your United States Senators, Congressperson, State Legislators, the Tennessee Department of the Environment and Conservation and its Division of Radiological Health. Ask them why Tennessee is so welcoming to radioactive waste. Ask your State Senator or Representative to support legislation to stop the Bulk Survey for Release program. Tell these officials that you do not want Tennessee to become the worlds destination for radioactive waste processing.

You can also contact the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and ask them not to allow downblending for purposes of lowering radiation class. For further information call Brooke Traynham at (240)205-2091 or email her at Brooke.Traynham(at symbol)nrc.gov. Public comments are due by January 29, 2010.

Don Safer is Chairman of the Board for the Tennessee Environmental Council. He is a member of “Know Nuclear in the TN Valley” a group that educates community leaders, environmental advocates, public officials, and concerned citizens about nuclear waste, the nuclear industry, and the need to stop generating nuclear wastes in Tennessee and to manage the wastes we already have responsibly. Don has a BA from Vanderbilt University in Sociology and Anthropology. His 25 years in the natural foods business built his awareness of the causal relationship of environmental contamination and human disease. His work was recently featured in the Tennessean, click here for article.

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TENNESSEE ALLOWS RADIOACTIVE WASTE PROCESSING and disposal practices that are unique in the United States. This has made Tennessee the nation’s primary pathway for the processing and disposal of low level radioactive waste materials. In the year 2000 (the last year that the NRC compiled these numbers in a state by state comparison) Tennessee was responsible for 58.6% of the materials that were disposed at the 3 licensed landfills receiving radioactive materials in the U.S. Add the radioactive materials that were incinerated and land filled and Tennessee received at least 75% of the nation’s llrw. Currently Tennessee is collecting a 1.5 cent per pound fee on approximately 41 million pounds of material that comes to radioactive waste processors across the state annually. The state Division of Radiological Health (DRH) does not break down these numbers for in state and out of state generators. In 2009 almost 4 million pounds of these materials ended up in 4 Tennessee landfills with about half going to the North and South Shelby County landfills; Chestnut Ridge in Anderson County received 1,861,000 pounds. The other landfill in this program is Carters Valley in Hawkins County.

Here are some specific examples:

1) Tennessee is the only state in the U. S. that allows a program that has come to be called Bulk Survey for Release (BSFR). The state allows licensed radioactive waste processors to make a determination that materials which have come to them from radioactive waste generators have low enough levels of radiation to release into 4 municipal landfills across the state. This is a “blanket” permit and state oversight of the program is practically all bureaucratic; DRH averages less than one site visit to the processors every 13 months and some of these are for other matters. In 2007, 5 million pounds of materials were disposed under this program, which has been operating since the early 1990’s. In comparison, the NRC manages these types of materials under 10 CFR 20.2002 which requires a case by case determination. Since 2000 the NRC has received only 20 requests for such alternate disposals. This program was never authorized by the legislature; it was developed by TDEC as a way to “facilitate” the disposal of materials from radioactive waste processors across the state.

2) Tennessee has 7 operating incinerators or other facilities which volume reduce radioactive waste by heat treatment. The latest, the Impact pyrolysis process in Oak Ridge began operating in 2009 with 4 combustion chambers and a 4,000 pound per day capacity. Efforts to find other radioactive waste incinerators currently operating in the rest of the 49 states have identified only one.
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3) EnergySolutions has applied to the NRC for an application to import 1000 tons of German radioactive waste for burning at its Bear Creek Incinerators in Oak Ridge. EnergySolutions says that it is authorized by the State of Tennessee to possess and process any material that DOT regulations permit to be transported.



4) EnergySolutions has withdrawn its application for a permit to import 20,000 tons of radioactive waste from the abandoned Italian nuclear power program to Oak Ridge for processing. The company is reworking its proposal. The original plan was extremely controversial; it involved burning, melting, compacting and otherwise processing the radioactive material. The remaining 1600 tons of radioactive waste was to be buried in the licensed radioactive waste landfill in Clive, Utah. Both Utah and the Northwest Compact objected to the plan. This would have been by far the largest amount of foreign radioactive waste ever to be brought into the United States.



5) The Class B and C resin waste from the reactors in 36 states currently has no disposal path because of the higher levels of radiation they contain. There are two proposals from private nuclear waste processing companies to create disposal solutions: they both would have the waste coming to Tennessee for processing.

EnergySolutions would lower the classification by blending with less radioactive Class A material in Oak Ridge (the state of Utah is fighting this proposal); Studsvik would cook these radioactive resins for significant volume reduction in Erwin.

6) The Studsvik facility on President’s Island in Memphis is the only place in the U.S. where radioactive steam generators from pressurized water reactors are taken for processing, or dismantling. These units are up to 70 feet tall and weigh as much as 800 tons. These must be taken apart, piece by piece to separate the parts that are highly radioactive. These contain a significant amount of plutonium and other dangerous radionuclides. Much of the material deemed to be “extremely low level” by Studsvik will end up in the North or South Shelby landfills.

7) The US Department of Energy has contracted with 4 companies for treatment of Class A, B, and C, low-level and mixed level radioactive and hazardous waste from across the entire complex of DOE Office of Environmental Management projects. All four companies process waste principally, if not exclusively in Tennessee. The four are: EnergySolutions, Studsvik, Perma-Fix, and Philo-Technics.

RACE, Radiological Assistance Consulting and Engineering, which was purchased by Studsvik agreed in January, 2010 to pay a $650,000 fine to settle claims by the Federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission it subjected African-American employees to an alarming variety of discriminatory practices, including intentional exposure to higher levels of radiation than those faced by white workers. It is unclear if Tennessee’s Division of Radiological Health was involved in responding to the violations.

9) Sloppy practices, fires and accidents at the Nuclear Fuel Services facility in Erwin forced the NRC to temporarily shut down all of its operations in December of 2009.

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Don Safer Comments from TVA Board Meeting - April 14, 2011

Erwin, TN Nuclear Fuel Services - (MS Word Doc) Public Hearing May 10, 2011.

Ketterer - INTERIM REPORT: Results for Isotopic Studies of Uranium in Environmental Samples from the Vicinity of the Nuclear Fuel Services Facility, Erwin, TN - November, 2010

Stop Burning of German Radioactive Waste in TN - February 2011

Nuclear Waste Issues in TN by Don Safer - July 20, 2010

Tennessean "Industry Clearly a Bad Investment" Guest Editorial by Don Safer - February 24, 2010

Council ProTECt Newsletter, "Nuclear Disposal in Tennessee" by Don Safer. Click Here

Tennessean, "Weak Oversight Cannot Ensure Safety", Guest Editorial by Don Safer - November 6, 2009

Nuclear Industry "Constructs" Its Own Reality - September 29, 2007

What to Say to Those Who Think Nuclear Power Will Save Us - August 22, 2007

Nuclear facilities may pose childhood leukemia risk - August 14, 2007

Nuclear expansion is a pipe dream, says report - July 7, 2007

Land Use

Forever Green Tennessee Initiative 2010

North Cumberlands Project - Public Benefits

North Cumberlands Conservation Plan

Tennessee Heritage Conservation Bond Act (January 2006)

Forestry

Mining

Sprawl and Transportation

Conservation Fund

Land Aquisition Funds

LES Picks New Mexico


Air Quality

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In July 2003 the Commissioner of the Department of Environment and Conservation informed the Environmental Protection Agency that eighteen (18) counties in Tennessee likely will be out of compliance with national ambient air quality standards. This report was related to attainment for ozone pollution and identified counties mainly in the metropolitan areas of Tennessee, where the majority of the states population lives.
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Seven metro areas have signed up for early action compacts, an effort to reduce pollutants more quickly (with local plans) in order to reach attainment. The American Lung Association has identified the four major urban areas - Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville - among the 30 most polluted cities in the country.
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On July 22, 2003, Governor Bredesen established the Governors Interagency Working Group on Air Quality, recognizing that air pollution is one of the most serious environmental challenges facing our state and has the potential to adversely impact public health, our environment and our states economy.
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Emissions from TVAs coal-fired power plants continue to be a major source of sulfur dioxide, nitrous oxides, carbon dioxide and mercury. These toxic emissions contribute to acid rain, ozone formation, global warming, and the poisoning of lakes and streams, respectively.
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The growing number of automobiles/trucks on the roads contributes to more than one-third of air pollutants in the state.
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New Source Review (NSR) standards proposed by the Bush Administration would create loopholes for industry and power companies, allowing more air pollution in Tennessee that would not fall under the tighter restrictions adopted in the Clean Air Act.

What you can do to help

The state of Tennessee is considering changes to new source review (NSR) rules applicable to sources of air pollution. These rules work to prevent increases in pollution. The EPA has put forth changes that would weaken these controls. The changes were poorly considered and will lead to worse air quality in Tennessee.

Call Governor Bredesen and tell him not to adopt the EPA "worse source" air rules. There are better ways to clarify the regulation of industry, but creating loopholes to avoid pollution control is not the way to go.


Call 615-741-2001. Tell them you want Governor Bredesen to protect the air quality for you and all Tennesseans


Water Quality

USGS Report on Pharmaceuticals, Hormones and Other Wastewater Contaminants in US Streams
Water Related Enforcement Activity
TEC and Duck Rivers Opportunities Project (DROP) partner on restoration efforts
Help Stop Water Pollution for the Sake of Public Health and Our Environment!!!
TVA River Operations Study Underway!
Saving Rumbling Falls Cave from Spencer Sewage Treatment Plant





Toxics

2002 TRI (Toxics Release Inventory) for Tennessee

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76 Tennessee neighborhoods among most at-risk from air pollution (December 14, 2005)
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See where your neighborhood ranks



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EPA Toxics Release Inventory Program www.epa.gov/tri
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TRI Explorer www.epa.gov/triexplorer
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Envirofacts Data Warehouse www.epa.gov/enviro
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Scorecard www.scorecard.org
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Right to Know Network www.rtk.net



Urban Community Forest Initiative

Introduction to the program
October 2008

There is currently a bill proposed by Council Members Megan Barry and Mike Jameson to amend the current Metro Tree Ordinance first enacted in 1996. The proposed bill would extend coverage to residential development, whereas the current ordinance only covers commercial development. The following links include the full ordinance, the Metro Tree Advisory Committee’s “Managing Nashville’s Urban Forest” report, and two photos of a residential development depicting the type of tree loss Nashville is experiencing (Cane Ridge Farms I, Cane Ridge Farms II).

The second reading of the ordinance will take place on October 21, so be sure to contact your council member on the 20th to support this bill. You can contact all Metro Council members collectively at Councilmembers@nashville.gov to express your support for this legislation.

June 26, 2007
Urban Trees Deliver Energy Conservation, research from actrees.org

May 2007 Update
by Kyle Duvall




Green Building

Click here to read Jamie Qualks article busting the myths of Green Building.


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Man achte auf die Symbolik der genannten Seiten.
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