9/21/09

12 million people in Hudson County and New York at risk.

Tell DEP Not To Cover Up Toxic Hazards!

Seven years after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, reports by industries that use highly hazardous chemicals to government agencies reveal that 97 New Jersey sites pose a potential catastrophic safety and health risk to workers and/or the public if there was a worst-case toxic release caused by an accident or deliberate attack.

A worst-case chemical release from the potentially most hazardous of these facilities, located in Hudson County, could harm up to an estimated 12 million people in New Jersey and large portions of New York City.

The most dangerous chemicals reported by New Jersey’s top 15 high-hazard facilities are chlorine, hydrofluoric acid, anhydrous ammonia, hydrochloric acid, ethylene oxide, titanium tetrachloride, and vinyl acetate monomer. Each of these toxic chemicals, under certain conditions, can form a highly hazardous cloud that can drift downwind, enveloping neighborhoods, schools, hospitals, adjacent industrial facilities, or other public areas.

The Corzine Administration wants to take away your right to know if a chemical disaster could occur.  NJ-DEP has proposed a revision to the current policy that would hide “off-site consequence” data and other risk information hazardous sites including several in Hudson County.

For more information, download this PDF.

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