Shawn Chittle » buick city http://shawnchittle.com Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:02:36 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Tell the EPA to clean up Buick City http://shawnchittle.com/2010/me/tell-the-epa-to-clean-up-buick-city/ http://shawnchittle.com/2010/me/tell-the-epa-to-clean-up-buick-city/#comments Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:51:15 +0000 Shawn Chittle http://shawnchittle.com/?p=276 My hometown of Flint, Michigan needs all the help it can get. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is holding a public comment period from now until February 28th, 2010 to talk about cleaning up the Buick City factory lot, which is heavily contaminated. They might have a new business that wants to go in there, but obviously, this new business cannot afford - nor be expected to clean up - a 100 year-old industrial wasteland.

From mlive.com

The site's cleanup is crucial to creating a truck-to-rail intermodal hub on the site that could create 600 jobs. Officials with the Genesee Regional Chamber of Commerce have said that the developer doesn't want to take on long-term liability of environmental contamination at the site.

Please visit the special EPA comment website and tell them that Flint needs all the help it can get, and both GM and the U.S. Government certainly owe a debt to the people of Flint who  have sacrificed far more than their fare share. It'll take you all of 2 minutes, and it will mean a lot to the people of Flint, and to me... thank you!


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