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Campaign Unavailable We're sorry, this alert is no longer available. If you would like to learn more about ways you can take action, please visit Sierra Club New Jersey Chapter.The short explanation of this alert was: The Corzine Administration is trying to take away our right to know if a chemical disaster could occur in our communities, endangering our safety, job security, families, and environment. A new rule proposed by New Jersey's Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP), pushed by the New Jersey Office of Homeland Security, would hide "off-site consequence" data and other risk information from 97 potentially hazardous chemical plants, oil refineries, water treatment operations, and other facilities using chlorine or other highly toxic or flammable substances. 19 of 21 New Jersey counties host these facilities (find more information about these dangers in NJWEC's report, Still at Risk, available on their web site). Even George Bush's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has not hidden this vital information! The EPA's "reading room" in Edison, New Jersey, provides public access to off-site consequence information for EPA regulated facilities. Call Governor Corzine at (609) 292-6000. Or, use the link on the right to e-mail him via his Web site. Tell him that hiding dangers will not reduce threats or consequences of terrorism and to eliminate this secrecy language from the rule.
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