Since August of 2004, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry has been recommending to Alliance Landfill and the PA Department of Environmental Protection Agency that three or four community-based air monitoring stations or sampling locations be established in our communities. When the Alliance Landfill Task Force was made aware of the need for monitoring our group wrote to Senator Mellow for help.It's been quite awhile since our first letter to Senator Mellow and we still have not received a response to date. When our group started to wonder why, we investigated a bit further and found out that Senator Mellow receives quite a bit of money in campaign contributions from various Waste Management sources. One such source is the Waste Management Pac.
To view the contributions go to the weblink at the right of the screen and click:
PA Dept. 0f State - Campaign Finance Reporting
* Be sure to add Waste Management Pac as the Contributer. Mellow as the Filer (Recipient). Begin Date: 1/1/2004
End Date: 4/28/2008 Then hit Search
Senator Mellow is a senior legislator who should be ashamed of his actions. It is the Alliance Landfill Task Force opinion that Senator Mellow has chosen to put the dollar before the safety of the people he took an oath to represent. If Senator Mellow is not going to live up to the oath of representing the people in a respectful manner than Senator Mellow should resign immediately.
The residents residing around Alliance Landfill have the right to know if the air they are breathing is safe. Senator Robert Mellow should be helping the residents to get that answer. Senator Robert Mellow should not be protecting and accepting the money of the corporate giant of trash that could be harming residents.
