This bill would also require that parents receive 48 hours advance notice of all pesticide applications in their children's schools or day care centers, with exemptions for disinfectants and other cleaning products. State Superfund monies will be fully obligated by mid-year 2000 according to a 1999 State Superfund Management Board report. It could take up to a year to implement new fees to replenish Superfund, New York's toxic dump cleanup program. The Governor and Legislature need to pass a bill this session to refinance Superfund before it runs out of money and halts cleanups at hundreds of leaking toxic dumps. Each community in the state should equitably share in the benefits and burdens of a modern industrial society and the environmental problems that accompany it.
Some communities nevertheless bear more than their share of the cost.
A disproportionate and inequitable share of pollution emission sites, waste treatment and disposal facilities, and transportation corridors are no sited in minority neighborhoods and economically distressed areas. Moreover, the courts have undercut the legal avenue for challenging unjust siting decisions and other agency actions. Presently there have been problems between the US and the EU over this issue. In Europe, they do not use rBGH on cattle and they will not allow meat from US cattle that does use it, to be sold in Europe.