Stop Toxic Threat

03/30/2024

https://www.thenewlede.org/2024/03/toxic-vinyl-chloride-accidents-happen-once-every-five-days-report-finds/

By Dana Drugmand Accidental releases of toxic vinyl chloride have occurred in the United States once every five days, on average, since 2010, according to a new report that highlights the extent to which communities and chemical plant workers are exposed to the known carcinogen. The findings add to....

03/26/2024

Thank you to everyone that supported this referendum. We could not have defeated this rezoning of 65 acres for heavy industrial use as a hazardous waste ash monofill without you. It is time to retire this page.

But first I would like to ask that you to continue supporting Eaton Township. Local residents are encouraged to attend the regular trustee meetings and zoning meetings. The next special zoning meeting is tomorrow Wednesday, March 27 at the Eaton Twp Hall. From what I understand, it will be a working meeting with no public comment during that meeting. Your voices have been resoundingly heard and the Eaton Twp trustees created a resolution at the last meeting where they extended the moratorium on new applications for heavy industrial rezoning and have requested that the zoning commission consider repealing the heavy industrial zoning code. This process will probably take 5-6 months because there are many steps and there will be public hearings during the Lorain Co Planning, the zoning commission and trustee portions of the process. This is what the community wants. Please attend meetings and be courteous to the board members and trustees as they are being very supportive by initiating this process. We could not have asked for a better next step! Time to say thank you!

Thank you again for your support and involvement!

Karen Johnson

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03/20/2024

03/20/2024

83.9% Voted NO on heavy industrial rezoning in Eaton Township. Issue 19. Congratulations Eaton Township.🥳

03/16/2024

“There’s no level of exposure to PM2.5 below which negative health effects aren’t seen.”

Your NO Vote on Issue 19 helps to Stop the Toxic Threat!

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Fine particles in air pollution contribute to the deaths of 36,000 people each year in the UK.

03/08/2024

The EPA will protect us they say…

NTSB Chair Jennifer Homendy told U.S. Sen. JD Vance that Norfolk Southern contractors lacked the 'scientific background' to recommend the controlled release.

03/02/2024

This is the hazardous landfill in Michigan where the hazardous waste ash is currently sent— notice that it’s not in a residential area. It’s near an airport in an industrial area.

02/17/2024

So then why do we believe that the EPA will protect us from the Hazardous Waste Incinerator and its Mountain of Hazardous Ash (landfill)?🤦‍♀️

The Environmental Protection Agency was first alerted to the health hazards of toxic fluorinated chemicals, known as PFAS, in 1998.

02/17/2024

PFAS are in the news as major chemicals of concern and apparently we all have them in our bodies. How do we get rid of them? Is incineration an effective means of disposal?

EPA: PFAS compounds are difficult
to break down due to fluorine’s electronegativity and the chemical stability of fluorinated compounds. Incomplete destruction of PFAS compounds can result in the formation
of smaller PFAS products, or products of incomplete combustion (PICs), which may not have been researched and thus could be a potential chemical of concern.