Hiding Radiation, etc.? - NYC Ban Private Toxic Sampling?

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We are writing you with great urgency in opposition to Intro 650, a bill introduced into the New York City Council at the request of the mayor and with the support of the Speaker of the City Council. We believe this bill poses a grave threat to university programs, academic research, and unions, environmental, and community-based organizations that conduct independent chemical, biological and radiological environmental sampling. We ask you to join us in opposing this legislation.

Intro 650 will require permits for the possession or use of any instruments which monitor chemical, biological or radiological contamination. The NYC Police Department has testified that the impetus for the bill came from the Department of Homeland Security. Intro 650 will give NYPD the power to authorize, deny, or delay any workplace or environmental sampling. NYPD has testified that the Department of Homeland Security intends to use this legislation, if enacted, as a model for other cities throughout the country. We believe the bill, if enacted, will restrict, and could prevent altogether, independent environmental monitoring by unions, community organizations, and others, including university programs. We believe this would pose a significant threat to our civil liberties.

The stated purposed of the bill is to “reduce excessive false alarms and unwarranted anxiety." However, the bill’s proponents have presented no data to support the claim of "excessive false alarms," nor have they identified the types of alarms that are presumed to be excessive. No evidence has been presented to document "unwarranted anxiety." It is likely that no such data exist.
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and it could stop vets from seeing if they have DU poisoning.

I Love NY....

Hmmm, wonder what they're going to do about all those high school Geiger counters? Hell, depending on how this is worded, it could eliminate gardeners from doing soil samples.

I don't think that its any coincedence that this comes along right when there's a big push to expand nuclear energy in this country. Can't have the pesky environmentalists, or even ordinary citizens going on about tritium in the water table.

However it won't prevent vets from getting tested for DU. That is actually done via a piss test not some sort of body scan.

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