Posted on 09/14/2010 6:02:55 PM PDT by Libloather
Environmental groups say contamination at green school poses threat
By Christina Hoag
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: 9:48 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010
LOS ANGELES — Students at a new green-themed school named for noted conservationists Rachel Carson and Al Gore don't have to go far for a lesson in environmental contamination: Their $75 million campus was laden with toxic soil.
Los Angeles Unified district officials have spent $4 million to clean up the site of the new Carson-Gore Academy of Environmental Studies, which is set to open today.
The three-acre site, in a low-income neighborhood west of downtown LA, was contaminated with carcinogenic solvents that leaked from 17 underground storage tanks discovered during construction. The land had been previously used by light industrial businesses.
The school district said the school has been cleared by state toxic control authorities and is ready to receive its 675 elementary students, whose curriculum will be sprinkled with environmental themes.
But a coalition of environmental groups argues the district is not going far enough to prevent possible soil vapor intrusion into classrooms from an outside source of contamination. The site is bordered by a gas station and an oil well.
Testing at the site indicated that contamination was coming from a source other than the storage tanks onsite, said Jane Williams, executive director of California Communities Against Toxics, who has been monitoring the issue. That pollution could affect the groundwater, which could send vapors into the building.
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Just wait until Algore shows up and starts spewing.
...change the name, it might clear up
They’re calling Rachel Carson a “noted conservationist”? More like a mass murderer. Her lies were so destructive, she manages to continue killing people from beyond the grave.
‘Gore’ and ‘clean’ are usually opposites, just look at “gory movies.”
So says she, without citing a single measurement.
Al Gore is far, far from a typical conservationist.
Measurement? All you have to be is afraid - of something.
It just shows that God has a sense of humor....
Or they could just leave things as is and change the school over from environmental studies to a chemical and biological weapons research and development elementary school.
I don’t know, but if I were to actually have watched “An Inconvenient Truth” when it first came out, I would easily have been to Global Warming as an Atheist is to religion just from watching the film.
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