70 firms devise strategy to quash EPA's plans for Passaic River cleanup

[hollysmom]

Yep, looky looky - some corrupt legislators - time to write to local legislators to let them know we are watching them.
70 firms devise strategy to quash EPA's plans for Passaic River cleanup

It was January when the letters started showing up at the Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office in Manhattan.
First, the Hudson County executive sent one. A few weeks later, state Sen. Paul Sarlo wrote one. So did the mayor of Wallington. The words were the same, the letterhead different. The message was clear: We oppose all of your potential solutions for cleaning the highly contaminated Passaic River.

The form letter was given to the officials by a group of 70 companies considered potentially responsible for pollution in the river. The corporations have agreed to cooperate to develop a plan for cleaning up the waterway, but they don’t like the federal government’s ideas, which all involved agree could cost these and other companies hundreds of millions more.

The Star-Ledger has learned the companies have been courting public officials and local groups in an effort to generate support for their own less-costly cleanup project — one environmentalists and EPA administrators doubt would work.

I am sick and tired of this crap, and the fact that the Passaic runs through my town does not help matters. Now I have to look up my legislator and give them hell.