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Article: TOXIC WASTE BILL VETO THREATENS GREAT LAKES.(Opinion)(Letter to the editor)
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- The Post-Standard (Syracuse, NY)
- Article date:
- September 9, 2007
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To the Editor:
Gov. Eliot Spitzer vetoed a bill that would have prohibited new toxic waste landfills in New York if they have potential to pollute the Great Lakes system. The reason for his veto memo was highly speculative or inaccurate, or a secret.
In mischaracterizing the bill as a "prohibition," Mr. Spitzer admits that his administration is incapable of regulating a safe, toxic landfill anywhere.
At last report, 73 percent of PCBs and toxic waste buried in New York's Great Lakes system were imported from out-of-state. Spitzer's veto endorses a massive landfill import facility, just 10 miles north of Love Canal, which has already contaminated Lake Ontario.
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