http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2010/12/my-thoughts-on-epa40-sharon-jeffess/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=my-thoughts-on-epa40-sharon-jeffess EPA's Blog About Our World Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:33:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2010/12/my-thoughts-on-epa40-sharon-jeffess/comment-page-1/#comment-37884 Dawn Junkins Mon, 03 Jan 2011 19:27:53 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=5521#comment-37884 I’d like to know what coal and formaldehyde insulation have in common and what source it comes from. I would also like to know if there was a release of fiber optics and stray voltage in region 1 in the fall of 2007. Maybe Verizon. What happens when too much energy is sent to the grid, where does it go? Does it create a thermal environment?

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2010/12/my-thoughts-on-epa40-sharon-jeffess/comment-page-1/#comment-37666 Jackmax Thu, 23 Dec 2010 01:20:15 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=5521#comment-37666 Rock on Cuz!!!

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2010/12/my-thoughts-on-epa40-sharon-jeffess/comment-page-1/#comment-37628 Michael E. Bailey Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:31:21 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=5521#comment-37628 I can remember the time when there was no EPA and no CalEPA. That was a time back in the 1960s when you could go to the beach and it was common to see black tar balls mostly penny and dime size washed up on the beach at Huntington and offshore oil wells just off shore. If you passed a refinery, you would see the flame where excess fumes were being burned off. You could smell the fumes from oil fields, refineries, and tank farms as you went by. You could see oil sheens on the water of rivers that passed by tank farms and refineries. I can also remember a small brook that flowed about a block from where we lived in Orange and that provided a home for fresh water snales, crustacians, dragon flies, and etc. When the Orange Freeway went in, the brook was eliminated and completely concreted and paved over because this was also before the time of environmental impact reports. But before the brook was destroyed, it was already experiencing dieoffs of aquatic life from the chemical pollution finding its way into the water from nearby orange groves and nurseries.
The 1960s was also a time when agricultural chemicals were king and chemicals were tested and put on the market based entirely on their abilities to kill weeds or insects with no further regard given to environmental concerns. In fact, I knew someone who was in the agricultural chemical business at that time who told my uncle who was a small Indiana farmer, to just sprey a certain chemical on the ground and it would work as well as plowing for weed control. The chemical sprayer was urged as a replacement for the plow. No one told my uncle about toxic harm from chemicals. So he just scooped the leftovers out of the sprayer tank with his hands and washed the tank out with the hose letting the contaminated water fall on the ground. The person I knew that was giving advice to my uncle on using chemicals in his farm operation died of a very rare form of cancer.
EPA has made huge progress in environmental protection in the past 40 years. Today, many of the things I saw as a child growing up in Orange County in the 1960s are illegal. Large fines can be assessed today for deliberately degrading the environment and putting public health at risk. Alot of positive steps have been taken and things are much better today than in the 1960s. But there is still a long way to go yet, especially with chemicals and on greenhouse gas emissions. Best wishes, Michael E. Bailey.

]]> http://blog.epa.gov/blog/2010/12/my-thoughts-on-epa40-sharon-jeffess/comment-page-1/#comment-37611 marlen Mon, 20 Dec 2010 17:48:28 +0000 http://blog.epa.gov/blog/?p=5521#comment-37611 So beautiful it is the same in my country. Some people do not recognize the need of cleaning the Hazardous of the ground surrounding our place.

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