Sunday, December 02, 2007

Environmental Justice, Injustice and Racism in St. Augustine, Florida, Nation's Oldest (European-Founded) City

Imagine dumping in a minority community illegally for decades, then finally removing the dump without required permits and secretly putting 30,000,000 pounds of contaminants in the Old City Reservoir, an open sore going straight down to the qauifer and groundwater according to former EPA Region 4 Regional Administrator John Henry Hankinson.
Our City of St. Augustine city government must have influence with the State of FLorida.
Anyone else would be in jail. Our City of St. Augustine has been slapped with a small fine and is being allowed to put the contaminants back by the ill-advised power of the State of Florida.
Priceless.
Enough environmental racism and environmental injustice.
We need just environmental stewards, not polluters, in city government.
See below.

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