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Patriot-News: Environmental Group Promotes Another Misleading Report On River Pollution
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A Harrisburg Patriot-News story Thursday on an environmental group's report on pollution in Pennsylvania's rivers said the facts "aren't always as they seem in the environmental movement." From the article:
“Pennsylvania’s waterways are a polluter’s paradise right now,” according to Erika Staaf at the environmental group PennEnvironment.
"Staaf was promoting a new report Thursday that claims industrial facilities dumped more than 10 million pounds of toxic chemicals into Pennsylvania’s streams and rivers, making the state the seventh worst in the nation.
"What Staaf didn’t explicitly say was the “dumping” was regulated, permitted and legal. The report is based on emissions reported to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Toxics Release Inventory.
Click Here for the full story by reporter Donald Gilliland.
And there's more. It also turns out the Patriot-News will report in Saturday's paper, PennEnvironment used a photo to illustrate the report that was actually taken of a pipe spilling wastewater into a river somewhere in South Africa.
In the same Saturday article, the Patriot-News reported a photo published last September by PennEnvironment allegedly showing a flooded Marcellus Shale drilling rig caused by Tropical Storm Lee was actually a drill rig in Pakistan.
Environmental Group Says Delaware Most PollutedOhio Dirtiest River Penn Environment Study Finds PA 7th In Toxic Substances Released Into Waterways |
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3/26/2012 |
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