From Leticia DeCaigny and the Good Neighbor Committee: We share our community with the BNSF Argentine Rail Yard, where locomotives burn substantial amounts of diesel fuel, day and night. Come to a community meeting to hear the results of a study done by citizen scientists with the help of experts on the extent of diesel exhaust …
KCK has very active and effective neighborhood groups, and several of them invited Leticia DeCaigny, leader of the Argentine/Turner Good Neighbor Committee and Diesel Health Project community organizer, and “Green Czar” and Diesel Health Project co-founder Richard Mabion to tell them about our community monitoring project. We met last night (Tuesday, June 17), and had …
EPA Region 7 held an excellent EJ meeting last Thursday, at the beautiful Ivanhoe Neighborhood Center. We reviewed and commented on the EJ 2020 Action Agenda, got a great demo of the EJSCREEN Environmental Justice Screening Tool, and much more. My comment to EPA on the EJ2020 Action Plan? Please explicitly identify goods movement (aka freight …
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Three Diesel Health Project members, Leticia DeCaigny, Luis Aparicio, and I participated in yesterday’s All Things Air Community Fair at the Argentine Public Library. Leticia also represented the Argentine/Turner Good Neighbor Committee, the group that is monitoring diesel exhaust pollution along and near the fenceline of the BNSF Argentine Rail Yard, and demonstrated use of an air quality …
The Diesel Health Project has achieved its first objective – to monitor for dangerous levels of diesel exhaust pollution the BNSF rail yards in Kansas City, and Gardner/Edgerton, Kansas, and to raise the alarm if we found any. Our role – canary in the coal mine!