What if Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League earned a donation every time you searched the Internet? Or how about if a percentage of every purchase you made online went to support our cause?
Well, now it can!
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"The Story of Bottled Water" employs the Story of Stuff style to tell the fast-paced, fact-filled story of manufactured demand—how you get Americans to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when it already flows from the tap.
View the video.
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"The Story of Cap & Trade" is a fast-paced, fact-filled look at the leading climate solution being discussed. View the video.
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SOW THE WIND:
TOXIC AIR POLLUTION FROM THE SAVANNAH RIVER SITE
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BREDL released a study in March 2007 which shows that harmful levels of air pollution from the Savannah River Site are reaching nearby communities.
More Details and Download the Report (posted online: Feb. 23, 2008)
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WASTE GASIFICATION
- impacts on the environment and public health
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BREDL Chapters
BREDL welcomes these new chapters:
The Shell Bluff Concerned Citizens (Burke Co., GA) - April 2010
Protecting Onslow County Neighborhoods Foundation (Onslow Co., NC) - April 2010
Citizens for a Healthy Environment (Matthews, NC) - April 2010
Serious Chester County Residents Against Pollution (Chester Co., SC) - December 2009
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BREDL T-shirts
BREDL T-shirts are now available. All T-shirts are organic cotton, natural white, and printed with water-based inks. Each shirt is $15. This price includes postage and handling.
T-shirt description and Order Information
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Stop Incineration | Clean Air
BREDL comments to EPA regarding
Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration Units
Aug. 23, 2010: Excerpt from BREDL comments:
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The impact of incinerators on human
health is obvious. We support continuous emissions monitoring and
a more transparent reporting system that better informs the
surrounding community. We find that very often communities and
public officials are unaware of the impacts from incinerators.
Readily available data and reports would be a valuable tool.
Continuous emissions monitoring is an essential step toward
making that a reality.
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Nuclear
Groups File New Legal Challenge at Plant Vogtle
Aug. 17, 2010: League files new contention with nuclear licensing board regarding
inadequacy of containment/coating inspection program for Vogtle Units 3 and 4.
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Louis Zeller, Science Director for the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, explained why the groups took this action. "Southern Nuclear Company has overlooked a major problem which we simply cannot allow to go unchallenged. The fundamental requirement of the operator is to protect public health and safety. Southern Nuclear Company is not doing its job.
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Nuclear | Clean Air
League Files Unprecedented
Air Pollution Challenge at Plant Vogtle
Aug. 12, 2010: This week in a bold move, the Blue Ridge
Environmental Defense League filed a legal challenge to the
proposed air pollution permit at Plant Vogtle. The August 10th
filing was one of the first in the nation under the federal Clean
Air Act challenging excessive radionuclide emissions from nuclear
power. In a petition to the US Environmental Protection Agency,
the League called for rejection of the permit issued by the State
of Georgia because it failed to limit radioactive air pollution,
failed to protect public health and failed to prevent
environmental injustice.
BREDL Press Release
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Petition
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Nuclear
Demand a Better Way from TVA
Use BEST and MATRR voucher to send message
As taxpayers and as rate-payers, we are paying for the most expensive and dangerous form of energy on earth – nuclear power.
Please visit the BEST/MATRR website to printout their 'check' voucher then send it in with your electric bill payment.
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Nuclear
BREDL Continues its Decade-long
Campaign to Halt Plutonium Fuel
Aug. 5, 2010: Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry and Sequoyah nuclear power plants are identified in the July 19th Department of Energy Notice of Intent as the reactors designated for plutonium fuel use. The handling of special strategic nuclear materials requires the highest safety and security procedures. But the identified problems with fire protection, over-worked plant employees and site security lapses at these TVA power plants should eliminate them from further consideration by the DOE for plutonium disposition.
Read BREDL Comments to U.S. Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration
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No Mega-dumps | Stop Incineration
BREDL comments on EPA Proposed Rule regarding
definition of solid waste
Aug. 3, 2010: BREDL Comments on EPA definition of solid waste.
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In general, the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League supports the broad definition
of solid waste described in the alternative approach described on page 31885 of the
Federal Register. However, we do not support an exemption for waste that remains in the
control of the generator and meets the legitimacy criteria. Allowing case-by-case
petitions to the EPA for solid waste determinations should not be included in the rule. If
the potential of increased emissions exists, such materials should be regulated as wastes.
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The League Line
BREDL's Summer 2010 newsletter available online
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The LEAGUE
LINE: Summer 2010
- Cover: League demands protection for NC drinking water from Sewage Sludge Spreading by Sue Dayton
- Guest Editorial: PVC, the Poison Plastic Unhealthy for Our Nation’s Children and Schools by Mike Schade, PVC Campaign Coordinator
Center for Health, Environment & Justice
- Director's Report: Our Energy Policy in Hot Water by Janet Marsh
- National Grassroots Summit and Forum On Radioactive Waste Policy by Rev. Charles Utley
- The Timber Beasts Are Back by David Mickey
- Hundreds gather to protest plant proposed for Hart County by Lou Zeller
- BREDL and TERC ‘What a team!’ by Beverly Kerr
- Nuclear Issues Update by Lou Zeller
- BREDL Moves Closer to Creating Nature Sanctuary in Madison County, NC by Ann Rogers
- plus chapter updates . . .
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NC Healthy Communities
BREDL Presentation:
PERC: “Still
toxic after all these years”
Contaminated Dry
Cleaning Sites in NC
BREDL Presentation:
PERC: “Still
toxic after all these years”
Contaminated Dry
Cleaning Sites in NC
Powerpoint Presentation |
PDF format
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No Mega-Dumps
BREDL comments to SC Department of Health and Environmental Control on MRR Sandhills, LLC Landfill Determination of Need and Consistency
June 21, 2010:
The site for this landfill near the
North Carolina-South Carolina border with the primary access located in North
Carolina has raised concerns across state lines. Blue Ridge Environmental Defense
League chapters in Marlboro, Richmond and Scotland Counties have repeatedly
voiced their objections to this project.
We support the Department’s conclusion that MRR has failed to meet the first phase
of the permitting process because the landfill is not consistent with Marlboro County’s
zoning ordinace. However, we do not agree that MRR has met either the
Determination of Need requirement or that the landfill is consistent with Marlboro
County’s Solid Waste Management Plan.
View BREDL Comments
SCDHEC webpage about MMR Sandhills, LLC Marlboro County Landfill
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NUCLEAR
League Challenges Dominion's New Reactor Design
June 18: Lou Zeller, representative for the League, said, “Dominion’s switching of reactor technology is like altering the foundation after the walls are up.” He said that the switch this late in licensing the plant would make it difficult to regulate. Zeller added, “The Commission may lack the regulatory duck tape to piece it together.” He drew a comparison of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission with the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, the agency which oversees offshore oil drilling and which became too accommodating to its licensees.
View Contention Eleven filed June 17 |
Read BREDL Press Release
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New report reveals sewage sludge fields permitted
in
critical watersheds in 6 NC counties
Senator Ellie Kinnaird will host a press conference in the press room at the NC General Assembly on Monday, June 21 at 3 p.m. Senator Kinnaird will discuss the findings of a new report to be released by the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League. The League’s report, “Sludge Spreading in Critical Watersheds of North Carolina,” discusses the spreading of sewage sludge on farmlands in these critical watersheds. The report lists the locations of each field and summarizes the risks to public health and the environment. At the press conference, the League’s Sue Dayton will present a series of maps showing the locations of each of the sludge fields.
BREDL Press Advisory
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Defense League is a regional, community-based,
non-profit environmental organization. Our
founding principles are earth stewardship,
environmental democracy, social justice, and
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