Learn about the toxic chemicals being dumped in our air by CertainTeed, who bears the burden, how local leaders subsidized a dirty expansion when safer alternatives are available. Working group leader: Kristen Smith
Members of the ACC Industrial Development Authority for 2006
NEW: Expert Comments on CertainTeed Permit [pdf] - Sixteen pages of expert comments on the draft permit for CertainTeed by GA Center for Law in the Public Interest in Atlanta. Bottom line: the expansion permit is seriously flawed. March 2006.
Dirty Air is Bad for Business [pdf] By Beth Allgood, Southern Environmental Law Center, Atlanta
Overview
- Top Reasons for “No Net Increase” [pdf]
- CertainTeed’s Toxic Air Releases [pdf]
- How Much Increased Air Pollution? [pdf]
Industrial Development Authority (IDA)
- Diversity needed on development board [offsite]
- Athens Banner-Herald Forum, Nov 27, 2005
- CAA Press Release, [pdf] Nov 7, 2005
- CleanAirAthens.org Calls for Industrial Development Authority to Revisit CertainTeed Bond
- CAA Letter to IDA, [pdf] Nov 3, 2005
- CleanAirAthens.org request to IDA to revisit the Inducement Resolution.
- Questions from local CPA re IDA, [pdf] Oct 22, 2005
- Questions for IDA concerning legal, accounting and transparency issues.
Subsidy -- Bad for Business
- Tax Subsidy For Pollution [pdf]
- The Bucket Analogy: Bad for Growth [pdf]
- CertainTeed Expansion Could Hurt Local Farms [pdf]
- Mayor Davison's Reasons FOR Giving a Tax Subsidy [pdf]
- A-C Can Stop Certainteed's Expansion [pdf]
Health Facts
- Formaldehyde & Fiberglass [pdf's]
Solution: Expand with No Net Increase
Miscellaneous
- Letters: Peter Gess, Jill McElheney, Dave Oldaker [pdf's]
- Questions for EPD about CertainTeed [pdf]
- Background – News articles [offsite]
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