Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource "Voices That Must Be Heard" Articles Description An account of the resource The Independent Press Association (IPA) translates articles from the ethnic press (when necessary) and distributes them via web and fax newsletter to mainstream and ethnic press, government offices, nonprofits, and interested individuals. Voices That Must be Heard was designed by the Independent Press Association staff in New York City in response to the horrifying events of September 11. After Sept. 11th, Voices focused on the South Asian, Arab and Middle Eastern communities in New York. Since February 2002, the project has expanded, selecting articles from the broad range of ethnic and community newspapers throughout the city. Here, the Archive has preserved the Voices collection from its inception until November 2002. VTMBH Article VTMBH Article: Edition 27 VTMBH Article: Article Order 3 VTMBH Article: Title This is the limit: Christie Whitman may pollute New Jersey VTMBH Article: Author John Cappelli VTMBH Article: Publication America Oggi VTMBH Article: Original Language Italian VTMBH Article: Translator Katherine Sigelman VTMBH Article: Section edits VTMBH Article: Blurb New Jersey Democrats lambasted EPA head Christie Whitman for refusing to block a Navy plan to dump PCB-contaminated material off the coast of Sandy Hookan area she sought to protect as governor. VTMBH Article: Keywords VTMBH Article: Body Shame on you, Christie Whitman, thundered Rep. Frank Pallone (D- Long Branch), at a Washington press conference. New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey, Sen. Jon Corzine and Sen. Robert Torricelli denounced Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Christie Whitmans actions against the state where she was once governor. McGreevey, Corzine and Torricelli spoke out against Whitman for generally reducing environmental protections, in accordance with George W. Bushs wishes, and because she refused to block a decision about off-shore pollution off the coast of Sandy Hook. According to the Democrats, Whitmans refusal is a betrayal of New Jersey by someone who, as a shining star in the GOP constellation, once identified herself with the cause of environmental protection. In June, the EPA approved a U.S. Navy project to unload 55,000 tons of material dredged from the Earle naval base six miles from Sandy Hook. According to Mammouth County experts, these materials are contaminated with toxic PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls). Scientists say materials or sewage containing more than 113 PCB particles per billion are harmful to all organisms, both human and nonhuman. The Earl naval base materials exceed that limit, with a level of 123 PCB particles per billion. These toxins are the same PCBs that the EPA ordered dredged out of the Hudson River (where General Electric deposited them there half a century ago) at the cost of a half billion dollars. The supreme irony of this development, as the politicians emphasized, is that the EPA head is the same Whitman, who, as New Jersey governor, fought to stop the abuse of the Sandy Hook Marina. Whats happening now is so pitiful, McGreevey said. She, who was once a passionate adversary of what was always known to the New Jersey population as the infamous Mud Dump, the mountain of mud that makes Sandy Hook into a dump. Now, pressed the governor, here she is, publicly reversing her own position, approving the unloading of 55,000 tons at the Marina, which would directly pollute the environment with PCBs. Christie Whitman defended herself, claiming that, for now, the project is still up in the air, and wont be brought to conclusion until another case concerning dredging, now in court, is decided. However, we are specifying that scientists, not the politicians from either side, must decide. And yet, it seems to you like I am setting out to pollute our coastal waters? It certainly does seem that way to us, contested Pallone. Was it or was it not Whitman who signed off on unloading 55,000 tons at the Marina, with 10 particles over the maximum? Lets not lose sight of other major crises, Corzine said, that are also at the Administrators door, such as the exclusion of 33 polluted sites from the Superfund, five of which are in our New Jersey -- another example of the game that she is playing for Bush. At the end of the press conference, Torricelli censured Whitmans support for the watered-down, Bush-supported Clear Skies program over the Clean Air Act. Meanwhile, about those 55,000 tons destined for Sandy Hook, Pallone said, I will do my best in the Senate Committee on Finance to arrange for them to end up somewhere else, and cause less damage. VTMBH Article: Line Breaks 1 VTMBH Article: Date 2002-07-11 VTMBH Article: Thumb VTMBH Article: Article File VTMBH Article: Hit Count 106 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource This is the limit: Christie Whitman may pollute New Jersey 911DA Item Elements describing a September 11 Digital Archive item. Status The process status of this item. approved Consent Whether September 11 Digital Archive has permission to possess this item. unknown Posting Whether the contributor gave permission to post this item. yes Copyright Whether the contributor holds copyright to this item. yes Source The source of this item. born-digital Media Type The media type of this item. article Original Name The original name of this item. New Jersey Democrats lambasted EPA head Christie Whitman for refusing to block a Navy plan to dump P Created by Author Whether the author created this item. yes Described by Author Whether the description of this item was submitted by the author. no Date Entered The date this item was entered into the archive. 2002-07-11