Truthdig - Ear to the Ground - Politicians Fined for Environmental Negligence

			November 21, 2009 Log in / Register
			Text Size

Intelligentsia Against Intelligence

The Afghanistan Speech Obama Should Give (but Won't)

Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple

Lipstick on a Rogue

Battlefield in the War of Ideas

Battlefield in the War of Ideas
By Eugene Robinson

Intelligentsia Against Intelligence
By David Sirota

Enough G-2 Talk Already
By William Pfaff

Despite Subsidies, Class Sizes Rise in California Schools
By Louis Freedberg and Hugo Cabrera, California Watch

Lou Dobbs for President?

Obama Warns of Iran Sanctions

YouTube Videos to Wear Captions

UC Fee Hikes Prompt Protests

Rabin Turns in His Grave

Fox News Apologizes (Again) for Footage Flub-Up

‘Left, Right & Center’: The Geithner-Summers Backlash; Is Palin Dangerous?

Throw the Money Changers Out of the Temple

Yuletide Weirdness With Your Host, Bob Dylan

Hedges and Friends Debate Illusion, Conservatism and 9/11

Freedom’s Fight: Part II
By Gary Phillips

Claire Wasserman on Europe’s Islamic Immigrants
By Claire Wasserman

Oprah Sets Her Show’s Expiration Date

Behold the Food of the Future

Financial Meltdown 101

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

Vetting Sarah Palin

A Dig compiled by the editors of Truthdig

It Can Happen Here: Authoritarian Peril in the Age of Bush

By Joe Conason
$24.95

The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker

By Steven Greenhouse
$17.13

Jr. Baby Doll T-Shirt

$21

Politicians Fined for Environmental Negligence

welcomeargentina.com

The Riachuelo River, which runs along the southern side of Buenos Aires and into the Boca neighborhood, is notorious for its stench.

An Argentine court has fined the country’s environmental secretary and two politicians for failing to clean up the polluted Riachuelo River that winds through Buenos Aires, a move unique and commendable for its accountability of politicians to citizens’ concerns. —JCL

The Associated Press:

Environmentalists praised a judge on Wednesday for fining Argentina’s environmental secretary and two local politicians for failing to clean up the polluted river that flows sluggishly through the heart of the capital.

More than 4,100 sources of pollution, including tanneries; oil, chemical, and metal plants; industrial food plants; and illegal sewage pipes drain into the Riachuelo, one of Argentina’s worst environmental hotspots.

There are at least 110 open garbage dumps along the river, according to the Foundation for the Environment and Natural Resources, an Argentine environmental group.

Read more

More Below the Ad

Advertisement

TAGS: activist boca boca juniors bombonera environment judge pollution riachuelo rivers streams water

Related Entries

November 19, 2009 There’s Water In Them Craters
November 17, 2009 William Shatner: Envirophiliac
November 11, 2009 Lousy Sex Life? Blame Plastic
November 6, 2009 Breaking the Law for the Environment
November 3, 2009 Louisiana Judge Steps Down Amid Interracial Marriage Controversy

Email to a friend

Get truth delivered to
your inbox every week.

Previous item: Iran Counters U.N. Offer

Next item: House Dems Unveil Giant Health Care Reform Bill

Elsewhere: .

Comments

Are you a Truthdig member yet? Login now, or register with Truthdig.

By MarthaA, October 30 at 8:07 am #

Fines and Criminal Prosecution.

Report this

By gerard, October 30 at 1:12 am #

Hanford, Los Alamos, Savannah River, Three Mile Island, Yucca Flats, Tennessee Valley Authority, Appalachia, Marshall Islands, Bhopal, Nigeria, the plastic island in the Pacific—to name a few that come to mind. Not to mention Iraq and Afghanistan, Palestine and the Amazon Valley and China.

Report this

By MarthaA, October 29 at 4:39 pm #

Now, if we can see some fines for our own government’s Legislators that aren’t doing anything about what needs to be done for the welfare of the people of the Common Population, the infrastructure and the environment.

Report this