October 10, 2007, may very well become known as “Minnesota Atrazine Day” in future years. Discussion of the widely-used herbicide started at 10 a.m. that day with Tyrone Hayes’ appearance on MPR’s Midmorning program, and it didn’t wind down until 10 p.m. at a special forum/fundraiser featuring Hayes and MPCA whistleblower Paul Wotzka. In between… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Health
Commissioner of Health leaving
Minnesota Public Radio is reporting that the Minnesota Commissioner of Health, Diane Mandernach, is leaving come October. Many have called for her resignation (such as State Senator Marty) over her stifling information about the health of miners on the range and their escalating cases of mesothelioma. It seems they’ve received it. Recommend on Facebook Share… Read more »
New resource on PFCs
Clean Water Fund has a new webpage up with information on contamination from the 3M chemicals collectively grouped as PFCs that are polluting Minnesota’s lakes and rivers. Check out their press release as well. Recommend on Facebook Share on google plus Tweet about it
Benefit Dinner for Paul Wotzka
To assist with the legal expenses of Paul Wotzka’s whistleblower lawsuit, there will be a benefit dinner at the Eagle Bluff Nature Center in Lanesboro on August 11 at 5:30 p.m. Here’s the blurb as sent to me: Paul Wotzka was an employee of the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) when he was asked by Representative Ken… Read more »
More tests show more PFC contamination
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) began testing wastewater treatment plants for the presence of PFCs last April. Turns out that water coming out of the Brainerd treatment plant is way above all the others tested for PFOS, coming in at 1.51 parts per billion – or almost 14 times higher than the Twin Cities. … Read more »
Senator Marty on MDH Cover Up
State Senator John Marty, chair of the Health, Housing and Family Security Committee, has a column on the Minnesota Department of Health witholding information on miners’ mesothelioma deaths entitled, MN Health Department Cover-up — Mistake or Malfeasance?
Lahammer on Mining Hearing
Mary Lahammer, with public televisions Almanac at the Capitol, was at the hearing Thursday on the Iron Range. The focus was the Department of Health’s withholding public information for a year on the increasing death rate of miners. In a note on her blog, She takes to task both the commissioner and the media: Channel 9 was the… Read more »
Another PCA whistleblower suit
Naively, I kind of thought these days were behind us… Recommend on Facebook Share on google plus Tweet about it