The People have a Right to Clean Air, pure water, and the natural, scenic, historic, and aesthetic values of the environment. Pennsylvania's public natural resources are the common property of all people, including generations yet to come. As trustee of these resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all the people.

• Increases will include radiation, dioxin, vinyl chloride, benzene, mercury, and other heavy metals.
• Occidental already emits more than any polluter in the state, of one of the most documented carcinogenic chemicals, vinyl chloride, and is a PVC plant which is associated with high levels of dioxin emissions.
• Within 2 miles of Occidental's emissions are 31,000 residents and 25 schools and day-care centers. Tens of thousands more people live downwind. Our hospital is just 1/2 mile away. Thousands of people work in the immediate vicinity of Occidental.
• DEP mentions overall reduction in emissions in the Pottstown area as a result of this project. Even IF there is an overall reduction, this is not an acceptable trade off to all the people who would be forced to breathe one of the most dangerous concentrations of hazardous substances known to mankind, including the synergistic and addictive threats which DEP can not even determine. There is no question those already sick and the children will be most at risk!
• There is also the issue of constant risk of leaks, fires, and explosions from this ever-changing hazardous corrosive Pottstown Landfill gas which would be permitted to travel over 5 miles through our densely populated community.

Governor Ridge and previous Secretary Seif IGNORED or DENIED our repeated requests to meet and discuss the Pottstown Landfill gas pipeline's major threats to the health and safety of tens of thousands of people in this area..

• After an intensive 4 year investigation by ACE, we know of NO PEER REVIEWED SOUND SCIENCE, which claims there are no serious health effects as the result of burning hazardous landfill gas from a landfill such as the one in Pottstown, at a chemical plant which already poses a documented serious health threat. It is time for DEP to show us the studies and documentation that it used as a basis for its decisions. If DEP can produce any, we also want to see who did it and who paid for it.
• Requirements and limitations described by DEP as stringent, can not and will not protect the health of those most at risk in Pottstown, When added to Occidental's current hazardous air emissions, these HAZARDOUS AIR EMISSIONS INCREASES will be devastating, especially to those already sick and our children.

• It is impossible to allow increased HAZARDOUS air emissions at Occidental and not negatively impact air quality in that location.
• The air is already among the most carcinogenic and unhealthy air in the nation. CONCENTRATING MORE HAZARDOUS air emissions at Occidental will negatively impact already severely polluted air.

Occidental is to conduct stack testing and model the results for dioxin, mercury and other heavy metals AFTER the fact.