Toxics Petitions to the White House in US

White House Petition Delivery
Left to right: Ed Hopkins/Sierra Club, Jose Bravo/Just Transition Alliance, Sofia Plagakis/OMB Watch, Peter Orris/University of Illinois Hospital and Health Science System, Kristen Welker-Hood/ScienceCorps, Michele Roberts/Advocates for Environmental Human Rights, Rick Hind/Greenpeace, Mark Catlin/SEIU, Sophia Zeng/OMB Watch, John Deans/Greenpeace, Boyce Miller/Northwest Atlantic Marine Alliance, John Lavinus/Greenpeace. outside the White House after delivering 60,000 petitions calling on President Obama to impose rules requiring safer handling of chemicals at facilities across the United States that put millions of people at risk from chemical disaster.

Unique identifier: GP049K9

Type: Image

Shoot date: 26/07/2012

Locations: United States of America, Washington, D.C.

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Robert Meyers

Ranking: ★★★★★★ (B)

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Toxics Petitions to the White House in US

Activists deliver 60,000 petitions to the White House calling on President Obama to use the authority of the EPA under the Clean Air Act to require dangerous facilities to switch to safer alternatives—the best way to prevent a disaster. A coalition of labor, environmental justice advocates, environmentalists and experts on chemical safety joined Governor Christine Todd Whitman to call on the Obama Administration to use existing authority to prevent disasters at US chemical facilities. President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency have unused authority to require the nation's most dangerous chemical facilities to convert to safer technologies and protect communities currently living with the danger of a poison gas catastrophe.

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