Congressman: BP made Gulf “a toxic bowl” that will “haunt this region” for years, “All of that oil is still under the surface” (VIDEO) – Florida Oil Spill Law

Congressman: BP made Gulf “a toxic bowl” that will “haunt this region” for years, “All of that oil is still under the surface” (VIDEO)

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BP Lies (Again), This Time on Drilling “Mud” – Mother Jones

BP Lies (Again), This Time on Drilling “Mud”

“…the mud contains ethylene glycol, a highly toxic chemical commonly used in anti-freeze, and caustic soda, a compound more commonly known as lye that is is also toxic.” 

“BP dumped tens of thousands of gallons of the sludge into the well as part of the failed “top-kill” attempt in May, most of which ended up in the ocean. They are expected to use hundreds of thousands of gallons in these next attempts to kill the well. Asked about the toxicity of the mud at a hearing last month, BP CEO Tony Hayward told a congressional panel, “I believe all of the mud that had gone into the ocean is water-based mud with no toxicity whatsoever.”

“Except, it’s not. According to written responses released to congressional investigators on Friday, the mud contains ethylene glycol, a highly toxic chemical commonly used in anti-freeze, and caustic soda, a compound more commonly known as lye that is is also toxic.”

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Apartment Rentals Surge in US on Home Foreclosures, Job Gains – Riverstone Residential, Equity Residential & Henry Cisneros

National Apartment Association Tells Its Members MOLD CAUSES DEATH; Tells Courts It Doesn’t With The Help of US Chamber and UCLA

Thank You National Apartment Association. I will do my best to get this very important information out ASAP to numerous owners, investors, huge property management companies (e.g., Riverstone Residential), attorneys, and judges, AND, of course, to the MANY people who are currently living in MOLD-INFESTED APARTMENT COMPLEXES right now! katy

By Prashant Gopal
July 27, 2010
Some highlights from the story
“July 27 (Bloomberg) — U.S. apartment landlords are seeing a surge in rentals as mounting foreclosures reduce homeownership and an improving job market for young adults encourages them to find their own places to live.”
“The Bloomberg REIT Apartment Index gained 24 percent this year through July 23, double the 12 percent advance in the broader Bloomberg REIT Index. The Standard & Poor’s Supercomposite Homebuilding Index fell 5.4 percent.”
“As homeownership continues to decline, people need to live somewhere,” said Henry Cisneros, who was President Bill Clinton’s housing secretary from 1993 to 1997 and is executive chairman of CityView, a real estate investment firm in Los Angeles that focuses on urban projects including apartments.”
“The rental market will be robust for the next few years,” Cisneros said.”
“Equity Residential, based in Chicago, has pushed rents up by “high single digits” in all of its markets since January, Chief Executive Officer David Neithercut said in a June 11 interview. Funds from operations in 2011 also will rise 8 percent, according to a survey of 22 analysts.”
“Landlords won’t be able to raise rents too aggressively because unemployment remains high at 9.5 percent and declines in home prices have made it no more expensive to buy than rent in about half of larger markets around the nation, Willett said.”
“Riverstone Residential Group of Dallas, which manages 175,000 units in 30 markets around the country, reduced average concessions to about a half-month’s rent from about two months a year ago, CEO Walt Smith said. Vacancies have fallen below 5.9 percent in buildings that aren’t newly constructed, from 8.25 percent last year. Smith said he expects significant rent growth by 2012 as supply tightens with so few new units being built.”
“Landlords are cautiously testing the strength of the submarket their property is in to see if the market will withstand small rent increases,” Smith said. “In most markets, they’ve been successful.”
businessweek.com

U.S. Chamber of Commerce & Deceit in Mold Litigation

TRUTH OUT Sharon Kramer Letter To Andrew Saxon MOLD ISSUE

Political Action Committee – National Apartment Association (NAA) files Amicus Brief in mold case (two infant deaths in mold filled apt – Wasatch Prop Mgmt) citing US Chamber/ACOEM ‘litigation defense report’ to disclaim health effects of indoor mold & limit financial risk for industry

FEMA Using US Chamber Fraud in Katrina Trailer Litigation; EPA, GAO & Both Isle$ of Congre$$ Turn Blind Eye$

Sociological Issues Relating to Mold

“Changes in construction methods have caused US buildings to become perfect petri dishes for mold and bacteria to flourish when water is added. Instead of warning the public and teaching physicians that the buildings were causing illness; in 2003 the US Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform, a think-tank, and a workers comp physician trade organization mass marketed an unscientific nonsequitor to the courts to disclaim the adverse health effects to stave off liability for financial stakeholders of moldy buildings. Although publicly exposed many times over the years, the deceit lingers in US courts to this very day.”

Sharon Noonan Kramer

Information about Riverstone Residential, the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency, and the owners of Jefferson Lakes Apartments in Baton Rouge, Louisiana allowing tenants to be exposed to extreme amounts of toxins from molds by intentionally concealing evidence

Irrefutable evidence indicates that Riverstone Residential, Guarantee Service Team of Professionals, & plaintiffs’ attorney, J Arthur Smith III, must have agreed to exclude evidence that would have shown the owners of Jefferson Lakes Apartments & Riverstone Residential had knowledge of the severe MOLD INFESTATION at the complex before we moved in

Riverstone Residential Litigation

Mold Inspection Reports

Photos of Mold in Apartment

Attorney Malpractice

Links to Riverstone Residential Mold and Illegal Business Practice Complaints and More!

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Mold issues and the litigation involved!!! NAA member Riverstone Residential

I would not ordinarily post an advertisement as this is not the place for that, but since this company chose to get their important message out by highlighting the litigation involving National Apartment Association member Riverstone Residential, I made an exception.
PITTSBURG — Tenants of an apartment complex here are suing their management company over claims that it failed to remove mold that made them sick.
About 30 residents of Portofino Apartments on Loveridge Circle are signing onto a lawsuit, said attorney Bob Levin, against management company Riverstone Residential Group, citing poor living conditions and retaliatory responses to complaints. Levin said he plans to file the suit “within the statutory period,” once he meets with all prospective plaintiffs.

Mold Inspection USA

See also

Information about Riverstone Residential, the Louisiana Housing Finance Agency, and the owners of Jefferson Lakes Apartments in Baton Rouge, Louisiana allowing tenants to be exposed to extreme amounts of toxins from molds by intentionally concealing evidence

Irrefutable evidence indicates that Riverstone Residential, Guarantee Service Team of Professionals, & plaintiffs’ attorney, J Arthur Smith III, must have agreed to exclude evidence that would have shown the owners of Jefferson Lakes Apartments & Riverstone Residential had knowledge of the severe MOLD INFESTATION at the complex before we moved in

Pittsburg California Residents Suing National Apartment Association Member, Riverstone Residential, over MOLD

Quote from the article: Contra Costa Times article: “Internet research also turned up similar consumer complaints about Riverstone properties in LOUISIANA, NC, TX & WA.”

It is very rewarding for me to know that my website, blogs and tweets are assisting others by providing documented evidence that Riverstone Residential knowingly and willfully exposes tenants to toxins by concealing mold infestations. The political action committee to which they belong, the National Apartment Association (NAA), assists them by misinforming the courts of the known health effects of mold infestations. This aids the members of NAA to limit financial liability for tenant illness and injury.

When helping their members, such as Riverstone Residential, avoid liability for tenant injury and even death, the NAA tells the courts via legal documents that, “years of intense study have failed to produce any causal connection between exposure to indoor mold and adverse health effects”. They do this, with the assistance of the US Chamber of Commerce and the University of California names on their legal documents used to lend credibility to the false words.

Yet, while misleading the courts that mold does not harm their tenants, the NAA blogs to its members of what must really be done to stave off liability, “..mold can cause major health problems and even death. Don’t let it get out of control and affect your company or your residents”.

This needs to be made to stop!
Katy

“Mold can cause serious health problems. For accurate information about the health effects of mold, go to truthaboutmold.info and achemmic.com.”

ACHEMMIC has the following concerns about the NAA/US Chamber/University of California/Property Mgmt connections that are harmful to the public:

1. The University of California name is apparently being used as an implied signatory of the 2003 U.S. Chamber of Commerce publication.

2. It appears that the name of the University of California is being used as an implied scientific endorsement of the contents of said U.S. Chamber publication.

3. It is our understanding that it is a violation of the California Constitution, Article IX, Section 9(f) for the University of California name to be used to: promote a document of political and sectarian influence.

4. The contents of the document are contrary to recent scientific findings by national and international experts, including some within the State of California.

Riverstone Residential Litigation

Mold Inspection Reports

Photos of Mold in Apartment

Attorney Malpractice

Links to Riverstone Residential Mold and Illegal Business Practice Complaints and More!

Much like the USA went to war based on the frenzied hype and false marketing to decision makers that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction; all three of the following these closely related medico-legal mold issue public policy setters, ACOEM’s, AAAAI’s & US Chamber’s, all naming Dr, Andrew Saxon of UCLA as co-authoring and thus all carrying the University of California’s imprimatur, are used in marketing the false scientific concept to the courts and into US health policy that Bruce Kelman and Brian Hardin (the two owners of the litigation defense corp, Veritox, Inc) could legitimately apply math extrapolations to data they took from a single intratracially instilled mechanistic study by Dr. Carol Rao; mix several hypotheticals into the equation; and then mass market via medical associations, teaching hospitals and the US Chamber; what is a nonsequitor of science that flies in the face of the basic tenets of toxicology and common sense. Ie, Based on this one set of calculations, by Hardin and Kelman, the toxic components of mold that are found in water damaged buildings are purportedly scientifically established to pose no threat to human health. Thus, sick little children in the USA, who claim moldy (and insured) buildings are making them seriously ill with chronic immune system inflammations brought on by microbial toxins, are dispicable Evil Doers out to scam insurers – and so are their weeping mothers. (Best summed up by a Sacramento, California judge regarding the science of the Chamber, VeriTox, Saxon and the NAA, Huge Leap of nonscense nonscience).

TRUTH OUT Sharon Kramer Letter To Andrew Saxon MOLD ISSUE

U.S. Chamber of Commerce & Deceit in Mold Litigation

National Apartment Association Tells Its Members MOLD CAUSES DEATH; Tells Courts It Doesn’t With The Help of US Chamber and UCLA

Thank You National Apartment Association. I will do my best to get this very important information out ASAP to numerous owners, investors, huge property management companies (e.g., Riverstone Residential), attorneys, and judges, AND, of course, to the MANY people who are currently living in MOLD-INFESTED APARTMENT COMPLEXES right now! katy

Political Action Committee – National Apartment Association (NAA) files Amicus Brief in mold case (two infant deaths in mold filled apt – Wasatch Prop Mgmt) citing US Chamber/ACOEM ‘litigation defense report’ to disclaim health effects of indoor mold & limit financial risk for industry

FEMA Using US Chamber Fraud in Katrina Trailer Litigation; EPA, GAO & Both Isle$ of Congre$$ Turn Blind Eye$

Sociological Issues Relating to Mold: The Mold Wars

“Changes in construction methods have caused US buildings to become perfect petri dishes for mold and bacteria to flourish when water is added. Instead of warning the public and teaching physicians that the buildings were causing illness; in 2003 the US Chamber of Commerce Institute for Legal Reform, a think-tank, and a workers comp physician trade organization mass marketed an unscientific nonsequitor to the courts to disclaim the adverse health effects to stave off liability for financial stakeholders of moldy buildings. Although publicly exposed many times over the years, the deceit lingers in US courts to this very day.”

Sharon Noonan Kramer

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BP Gulf Oil Spill Fishing Waters Reopened Despite Lack Of Testing Required By Federal Protocols – Alexander Higgins Blog

BP Gulf Oil Spill Fishing Waters Reopened Despite Lack Of Testing Required By Federal Protocols

This is BEYOND COMPREHENSION

It’s not so much beyond comprehension the government would lie or skew the facts concerning ALL of the health issues in the BP GULF OF MEXICO OIL SPILL DISASTER, they do that with many health issues to stave off liability for financial stakeholders.

It IS beyond comprehension that this is SO VERY OBVIOUS and happening on such a large scale, in real time, along with the very obvious manipulation of information people see, including the Internet.         

THE GOVERNMENT IS NOT PROTECTING CITIZENS

READ THIS ARTICLE by Alexander Higgens

“That means that thousands of people who chose to eat seafood from the Gulf of Mexico could die because the Federal Government has decided that in the grand scheme of things economic considerations are far more important than a few thousands of people dying.”

“As if it weren’t already bad enough that the Government is misleading the public about the safety of public beaches and lying about water samples to save BP billions the Government has now decided to implement a variety of methods including sidestepping protocols and has implementing a variety of methods to skew the test data used to justify the reopening the waters to fishing.”  

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