Fair New Mexico? Well, Not So Much...

Click on the link in the headline, and enter your zip-code in the box provided.

Mebbe we're not living in quite the sump of toxic crap, sludge, and shit that afflicts Greater New Orleans or the lower Mississippi Valley.

But we're not far from it...

From the link:
We think American citizens have a right to know what toxic chemicals are being released into their communities. But the EPA recently proposed to limit the information that companies are required to disclose about the hazardous chemicals they release into our environment. By reducing the reporting requirements of its Toxics Release Inventory program, the EPA would take away an important tool for protecting public health and reducing industrial pollution.
We think American citizens have a right to know what toxic chemicals are being released into their communities. But the EPA recently proposed to limit the information that companies are required to disclose about the hazardous chemicals they release into our environment. By reducing the reporting requirements of its Toxics Release Inventory program, the EPA would take away an important tool for protecting public health and reducing industrial pollution.

Another link provides the gory details:

• In December 2006, the EPA finalized rules that raised reporting threshold to 2,000 pounds per chemical of releases to the environment and 5,000 pounds of waste managed.
  
• At a February 6, 2007 Senate Environment and Public Works hearing, the Government Accountability Office testified that EPA had not followed its usual procedures in developing and finalizing the rule, and that input from states and others at the agency had not been solicited, and, when supplied, had been ignored.
  
• President Bush issued an Executive Order on January 26, 2007 exempting federal facilities from reporting to TRI (EO 13423 — "Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management"). This new EO rescinds a Clinton EO 13148 issued in 2000 (EO 13148 — "Greening the Government through Leadership in Environmental Management") which formally established the requirement that federal facilities report to TRI.
  
• An NET analysis reveals that the Defense Department is the top beneficiary of EPA's TRI rollback — 40 department sites are now exempt from reporting. Bush's EO may be an attempt to undermine the anticipated legislation and ensure Pentagon facilities get off the hook.
  

It's too late now to do anything about it, except to throw out the fascist fuckers who continue to put private profit above public safety and health. It is not too late for that.

Impeach
Convict
Impale