[CPEO-BIF] "Grand Prairie Superfund site a priority for White House environmental justice council appointee"

[Lenny Siegel <LSiegel@cpeo.org>]

Grand Prairie Superfund site a priority for White House environmental justice council appointee

By Alejandra Martinez
KERA News (TX)
December 20, 2021 

A Texas professor who has joined the new White House Environmental Justice Advisory Council says he wants to make a Superfund site in Grand Prairie a top priority.

Robert Bullard has been a leader in the fight for environmental justice since the 1980s. In his new role, he will advise the White House on how to address environmental issues.

Bullard said he wants to see immediate action at the site in Grand Prairie. The former manufacturing plant is located in the city’s low-income, majority Latino Burbank Gardens neighborhood. It has been on the Environmental Protection Agency's national priority list since 2018, which is described as “the nation’s most serious uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites.”

EPA tests found a highly toxic chemical known as trichloroethylene (TCE) in the soil at the site and in nearby groundwater. The agency also found evidence of TCE in the air inside some residents’ homes.

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For the entire article, see
https://www.keranews.org/government/2021-12-20/grand-prairie-superfund-site-a-priority-for-white-house-environmental-justice-council-appointee

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director
Center for Public Environmental Oversight
A project of the Pacific Studies Center
LSiegel@cpeo.org
P.O. Box 998, Mountain View, CA 94042
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http://www.cpeo.org
Author: DISTURBING THE WAR: The Inside Story of the Movement to Get Stanford University out of Southeast Asia - 1965–1975 (See http://a3mreunion.org)

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