GUEST SPEAKER: Fred Millar, SARA Title III Protects Our Right-to-Know, or Does It?
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GUEST SPEAKER: Fred Millar, SARA Title III Protects Our Right-to-Know, or Does It?

On Sunday, April 23rd at 7:00pm Central, Fred Millar will talk about the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986 (SARA) and its Title III: The Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA), which ensures the public’s right to obtain information concerning toxic releases from local high-risk facilities - or does it?

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Railroads: How Well Do Private Ownership and Public Safety Mix?
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Railroads: How Well Do Private Ownership and Public Safety Mix?

“Perhaps even more distressing, shipments of hazardous and security-sensitive cargo—military bombs, rockets, warheads, torpedoes, mines, grenades, ammunition, projectiles, and even fireworks used as distress signals—can be embargoed and held by private railroad companies on privately owned property. “ Photo: Johannes Plenio

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