The EPA brands people who report governmental pollution violations as "whistle-blowers and trouble-makers" and reports them to "other" branches of the government, who in turn report back to the party or parties responsible for dumping the toxins. It's very difficult to find an attorney who will go up against government contractors, too. There is one fellow in Reno, NV, who represented Ralph Nader and the Green Party a few years back. But even he is afraid of the "big machinery", which is run by psychopaths.
A government contractor mined the Spokane Reservation for urnanium several years ago, and when the contracting company eventually vacated the leased reservation land it left open uranium pits and contaminated ponds everywhere on the leased land. The EPA then turned around and cited the Spokane people for pollution violations. The cancer rate on the reservation is astronomical.
There are chemical-contaminated ponds up on the Nevada Test site from careless dumping of deadly materials by the Air Force and government contractors, and these ponds are in turn poisoning and killing our wild mustangs, burros, and other wildlife, not to mention leaching into the water table. But try to report the mishandling of toxic materials to the EPA and it and the contractors the government hires will crush you for doing so.
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Date: 2008-06-16 08:12 pm (UTC)A government contractor mined the Spokane Reservation for urnanium several years ago, and when the contracting company eventually vacated the leased reservation land it left open uranium pits and contaminated ponds everywhere on the leased land. The EPA then turned around and cited the Spokane people for pollution violations. The cancer rate on the reservation is astronomical.
There are chemical-contaminated ponds up on the Nevada Test site from careless dumping of deadly materials by the Air Force and government contractors, and these ponds are in turn poisoning and killing our wild mustangs, burros, and other wildlife, not to mention leaching into the water table. But try to report the mishandling of toxic materials to the EPA and it and the contractors the government hires will crush you for doing so.