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Please sign the petition calling on President Obama to use his power to call for precautions necessary to protect people living near chemical facilities from disasters like the recent explosion in West, Texas.
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An Alabama Shrimp Boat Captain’s Worst Nightmare Comes True
From the time Captain Sidney Schwartz was a toddler he was learning about shrimping on his father’s boat in the Gulf Coast. At age 16, he became captain of the boat. Schwartz worked with his father and brother in 1988 to build the boat that is so important to his livelihood today. “It's been a long struggle. I've seen good, and I've seen bad. But since the oil spill, we have never caught the low catches of shrimp like we are catching now,” Schwartz says.
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The Gulf Coast was slammed by hurricanes Katrina and Rita in 2005 and Ike and Gustav in 2008. Just when recovery started to look possible, the BP Deep Horizon explosion in April 2010 brought the worst environmental disaster the region has ever seen. Then in August 2012 came Hurricane Isaac. Wilma Subra, environmental scientist and community consultant, conducted a study for Southern Mutual Help Association to determine the health impacts of this disaster. Subra found that a combination of powerful hurricanes and the BP drilling disaster dramatically increased the exposure to toxins for people in this region.
Texas leads the nation in the number of people at risk of being affected by a chemical disaster. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Risk Management Plans report, the state has 101 facilities that put 100,000 or more people at risk of a chemical disaster. As a Texas citizen, I have to wonder how many accidents like the fertilizer plant explosion in West, Texas are waiting to happen?