Important Dioxin Dates/Lancaster, PA garbage incinerator

[uugluszy@cyf-kr.edu.pl (Pawel Gluszynski)]

>From an internal Greenpeace anti-incineration mailing list:

>Date: Fri,  4-AUG-95 00:10:04 GMT
>
 
>*** Last Friday (7/31) the Lancaster, PA garbage incinerator
>(Ogden Martin) exploded killing two people.  The explosion left a
>40' by 6' hole in the side of the facility.  Although, officials
>haven't allowed the media to film the crippled facility, they
>admit they don't know what went wrong.  However, they're telling
>the press that a lightning strike may have tripped a computer
>switch that turned on the propane fuel feed, which is normally
>only used to maintain temperature.  They have also ruled out
>explosives in the waste because it happened in the secondary
>burner after the waste is initially burned.  
> 
>*** This Friday, August 4, Rep. Bill Richardson will introduce
>his "Dioxin Reduction and Incinerator Alternatives Act."  The
>bill is identical to the old incinerator moratorium bill (H.R.
>2488).  Only about 60 of more than 90 cosponsors that were on
>this bill in the last Congress survived the '94 elections.  But
>that is still a fairly strong base of likely cosponsors.
> 
>Some key Dioxin/Chlorine Dates coming up:
> 
>>>>> August 21 to 25, Dioxin '95 Conference Edmonton Canada
>Exeter' Ruth Stringer will present a paper on dioxin contaminated
>workers in the UK.
> 
>>>>> Same week, American Chemical Society Meeting in Chicago.
> 
>>>>> Week of August 21 or August 28, EPA SAB to release draft
>recommendations of EPA's dioxin reassessment.  Even if this draft
>has been purged (unlikely) of industry influence, there is going
>to be a high powered effort by polluters to spin this as a
>vindication of their criticisms of the EPA reassessment.   
> 
>>>>> End of August, EPA is likely to publish a notice in the
>Federal Register backing away from their own cluster rule support
>of oxygen delignification (OD) as they bow to pulp and paper
>industry's proECF push. 
> 
>>>>> September 15 & 16, Greenpeace Chlorine Conference in
>Midland, MI. 
> 
>>>>> September 22 to 25, IJC meeting in Duluth, MN.
> 
>>>>> September 20 or 21, EPA SAB Executive Committee (2 day)
>meeting on Dioxin Reassessment.
> 
>>>>> September 26, EPA Dioxin Reassessment Policy Forum in DC.
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