By Mickey Friedman December 26, 2018 If there’s something more dangerous than PCBs, it’s dioxin. It’s about 8,000 miles from EPA Region 1 headquarters in Boston to the Danang air base in Vietnam. I wish it was closer because the…
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A Whole Lot of School Supplies
By Mickey Friedman May 25, 2018 You can’t make this stuff up. Which is a burden for writers, because we make things up and hope it’s believable. But today unbelievable is everywhere. Imagine what it’s like for comedians who are…
Me/We and the EPA
By Mickey Friedman May 12, 2017 I first met the Environmental Protection Agency in the early 1990s. Glad to see them because the Commonwealth of Massachusetts was doing a lousy job with GE and PCBs. The EPA had the power…
The Trump Test
By Mickey Friedman December 29, 2016 Bewail and bemoan. Because you are more virtuous than those, insert here whatever variation of deplorable you prefer, who voted for that … With their explosions of righteous indignation, you’d imagine these vociferous critics…
The Rising: A Fishable, Swimmable Rising Pond
By Mickey Friedman August 12, 2011 GE sees Rising Pond and sees a PCB dump. I see Rising Pond and I see a gem, the cornerstone of a renewed and restored Housatonic, Massachusetts. I see people fishing on the banks,…
Conflicting Ideas for the EPA Remedy Review Board
By Mickey Friedman August 5, 2011 EPA Region One officials responsible for the GE/Housatonic River site spent two days on July 27-28, 2011 presenting a cleanup plan for “The Rest of the River” to the agency’s National Remedy Review Board…
The PCB Wars: The Commonwealth et al vs. EPA
By Mickey Friedman July 11, 2011 What do Massachusetts Congressman John Olver, Sen. Scott Brown, General Electric, and officials at the Massachusetts Executive Office of Environmental Affairs all have in common? Together, they’re doing their best to influence the Environmental…