Fwd: U.S. legislation

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

Original-TO: Greenpeace
>Su: Mini Incinerator Update  
>   
>Rep. Bill Richardson reintroduced his incinerator moratorium bill  
>today.  The bill number is H.R. 2211 and its new name is "The  
>Dioxin Reduction and Incinerator Alternatives Act."  Except for  
>advancing relavent dates into the future, the bill is identical  
>to H.R. 2488 in the last Congress, including a ban on burning PVC  
>in garbage (MSW) incinerators as well as an environmental justice  
>provision and it also covers cement kilns, industrial boilers and  
>furnaces and commercial hazardous waste burners.  
>   
>For simplicity and ability to introduce it before the August  
>recess, which begins today, we didn't add hospital waste  
>incinerators.  However, they are open to introducing a separate  
>bill on this issue.  The Senate will recess next Friday and they  
>both will resume their carnage on September 6..  
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