America’s For-Profit Health Care Dilemma
America's poor health outcomes have more to do with systemic profit incentives than merely access to health insurance.
Change is in the Air, but Contamination still in the Ground and Water
Citizen activism has spurred positive developments for the KAFB jet fuel spill clean up, but there's a long road still ahead.
Ten Reasons Why People Are Not Concerned About the Kirtland Jet Fuel Spill
In August 2013 the NM Mercury published an article of mine entitled “Why Aren’t More People in Albuquerque Concerned about the Kirtland Jet Fuel Spill?” After working on issues related to the spill for the past 10 months, I now know much more about the spill itself and have a much better idea about why most people in Albuquerque are not particularly concerned about this major threat to our drinking water.
Here are the top ten reasons…
Why aren’t more people in ABQ concerned about the Kirtland jet fuel spill?
During the past few months, a sense of dismay and outrage about the situation has been growing in me. In March, V.B. Price wrote a NM Mercury article entitled “Kirtland Spill: Get Serious,” which was commendable for its honesty in raising red flags. I began to pay more attention to this issue. Over the summer, I read with growing alarm various Albuquerque Journal articles by John Fleck. Fleck reported that the current effort to clean up the spill, the soil vapor extraction system, was malfunctioning repeatedly and even when running was only able to extract about half of the contaminants originally projected…