Community Honors Service of Officials Who Banned Coal Tar Sealers
The Village of Winnetka, IL, which passed a hard-fought ban of coal tar pavement sealers in 2014, tonight will honor two outgoing trustees for their service to the Village. Properly listed among their accomplishments to make Winnetka a better place was the ban of coal tar. Richard Kates and Arthur Braun, along with the majority […]
Cancer Survivor Fighting Mad About Mo State’s Continued Coal Tar Sealer Use
Coal Tar Dangerous for Mo State UFrom Dan Chiles, former City Councilman in Springfield, MO and appeared today in the Springfield News-Leader:Officials at Missouri State University (MSU) have announced they will pour truckloads of toxic coal-tar sealcoat on their parking lots, in the heart of their campus and our community. The U.S. Geological Survey warns: […]
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 […]
Compelling Coal Tar Facts From Maine
A great-looking, new fact sheet is now available about pollution from coal tar pavement sealers in Maine. Just published this month, the information piece clearly spells out and references, not only the national research, but also what is being found in Maine. The production was jointly supported by the Cumberland County Soil and Water Conservation […]
DEP & Industry Pitch to Maine Legislature Far From Perfect
The outlandish statements by industry just keep coming and last week’s meeting with Maine’s Legislature was no exception. The meeting was a public hearing on LD 1208, An Act Concerning Pavement Products, brought forward by Rep. Mattie Daughtry. Joining the chorus was Maine’s Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) which continues its distinction as the ONLY environmental […]
‘Life-Saving Legislation’ Faces Critical Test in Maine
Phase Out Coal Tar Sealant Use to be Heard in Committee on Thursday Two years ago Representative Mattie Daughtry introduced legislation to ban coal tar pavement sealers. Opposition was concerned about a ban affecting businesses and narrowly defeated the bill by just a few votes. But a lot has changed since 2013. Representative Daughtry talked […]
New and Shocking: Coal-Tar-Sealant Runoff Causes 100% mortality after 2 months!!??
There will be more to come on this research just released today, but here is today’s USGS’s press release: Runoff from pavement with coal-tar-based sealant is toxic to aquatic life, damages DNA, and impairs DNA repair, according to two studies by the U.S. Geological Survey published in the journals Environmental Science and Technology and Science […]
Fantastique! Joint French/USGS Study Clearly Shows Runoff Affects Fish DNA
Effects Seen Even at 100 to 1 dilution. Just published today is a joint study between the Université de Lyon and the US Geological Survey (USGS) clearly demonstrates not only DNA damage, but also the fishes’ ability to repair that damage. The research was published in the journal Science of the Total Environment. One term used in […]
Is Growing Coalition in IL Enough to Drive the Coal Tar Out?
There is a growing coalition of business, health, governmental and environmental organizations supporting Representative Laura Fine‘s proposed ban of coal tar pavement sealers. The bill, House Bill 2401, calls for the ban of coal tar pavement products by the end of this year. The opponents are a formidable brew of big business, labor, and chemical interests. As with […]
Sorry Illinois Your Streams Are More Polluted Than I Thought
A while back we edited a presentation and entitled it: Chicagoland: Home of the Most Toxic Creeks in the US? The point was to show that among the regions tested in the US, the western suburbs had some of the highest levels of PAHs (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) found. It was assumed that was only because not […]