Celebrating 5 Years of Coal Tar Free America!
It’s been nearly 5 years since I nervously posted my first brief article on the world wide web about coal tar sealers. Many recommended against it. Some applauded the effort. Nonetheless, I was surprised that a site like this was even necessary. The facts are plain and compelling. As someone has said, the more you […]
Green Building Gets a Black Eye from Coal Tar
Rating System Fails to Protect Users from Coal Tar Sealcoat Imagine the disappointment to learn that your awesome green building with eco-this and low-emitting-that just sealed their parking lot with what you have come to learn is highly toxic, coal tar pavement sealers. Now add to that you are a cancer survivor who is try […]
Should I Stay or Should I Go? 5 Factors to Think About Living with Coal Tar
5 Things to Consider if You Can Live with Coal Tar Sealed Asphalt Let me let you in on a secret. Frequently I am contacted by people shocked and saddened by the harsh reality that they and their loved ones are living in the midst of mobile, potent carcinogens; endocrine disruptors; and chemicals which cause […]
Honestly, Does Your Community Have What It Takes?
Through a variety of projects, I have been thinking a lot about batteries lately. Yes we have Tesla’s new home battery announcement, Powerwall, but my projects are quite a bit less grand or expensive. It got me wondering how a ban of coal tar pavement sealers is like stringing a bunch of batteries together to […]
A Call to Moms: Coal Tar Pollution Prevention within Your Reach
Today’s moms do so much. They consider all the dizzying array of facts and fables, tales and toxins in order to provide the best start for their babies in life. In spite of all of that investigation, it just seems the issue of coal tar parking lot sealer has escaped the attention of most US […]
Texans Seek Independence from Coal Tar Sealers
The Alamo, an enduring symbol of Texas’ Independence from Mexico on March 2, 1836. In the home of the Alamo, San Antonio, Texas another group of people are hoping for a different sort of independence: from the unwelcome problems associated with coal tar pavement sealers. In December of last year, Councilman Ron Nirenberg announced he […]
De-mystifying US Annual Coal Tar Sealer Use
Let’s face it, those in the technical fields speak languages of concentrations and quantities which mystify much of the public. The news media often tries to help with the communications gap with comparisons to familiar objects like swimming pools, salt and familiar distances to objects. In the coal tar sealer realm, people often ask how […]
Righting the Politics of Coal Tar
While industry hasn’t been shy to hide behind political skirts before, they are now using them to attack the science of sealant pollution. Recently the Director of the Pavement Coatings Technology Council (PCTC), posted an article a conservative website called American Thinker. For some strange reason (sarcasm), she did not disclose that her day job […]
Coal Tar Inspiration from Toxic Hot Seat
Even if you’ve read the Chicago Tribune’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated, expose on the use of flame retardants in furniture and mattresses, you’ve got to watch an HBO documentary film about it. It should be required viewing for any voting American. Why’s that? Just as the above graphic highlights, the film shows how deception by industry, which […]
When Popular Isn’t Good Enough
Ah the accolades of peers! ….the adoration of the masses! Sometimes it just isn’t good enough! Don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying this is the status of this site, by any means. However about two months ago, Stormwater Magazine published a story about the decline of PAHs in Austin, Texas since the ban of […]