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Article: News From USW: New Pollution Data Confirms Concern; Residents to FEMA: This is How to Clean up Tainted Properties in New Orleans; Steelworkers and Deep South Center for Environmental Justice Demonstrate How to Conduct Environmental Clean Up & Safety Training.
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- March 23, 2006
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NEW ORLEANS -- News From USW: Neighborhood contamination in the wake of Katrina has lingered so long without government intervention that two unusual partners are joining forces to do something about it. Dillard University's Deep South Center for Environmental Justice (DSCEJ) and the United Steelworkers (USW) union announced today the kick-off of A Safe Way Back Home project, an environmental neighborhood clean up initiative and community outreach campaign.
The project, running from Thursday through Sunday, will remove tainted soil from properties on the 8100 block of Aberdeen Road in New Orleans, replacing the soil with new sod, and disposing the contaminated ...