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News Feds: Illegal Dumping in Houston May Violate Civil Rights By Matthew Daly | Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department said Friday, July 22, it is investigating illegal dumping in Houston, including dead bodies and medical waste, that officials said is plaguing Black and Latino neighborhoods in the nation’s fourth-largest city. The investigation will be led by the department’s civil rights division and will examine whether city police and other departments discriminate against Black and Latino residents in violation of federal civil rights laws. Besides bodies, items dumped in majority Black or Latino neighborhoods include appliances, furniture, tires, mattresses and even vandalized ATM machines, Assistant Attorney General Kristen Clarke said at a July 22 news conference. “Illegal dumping is a longstanding environmental justice issue, and like many other environmental justice issues, it often disproportionately burdens Black and Latino communities,” said Clarke, who heads the department’s civil rights division. The investigation is the first publicly announced environmental justice action since Attorney General Merrick Garland created an office of environmental justice within the agency in May. The new office is focused on “fenceline communities” in Houston, New Orleans, Chicago and other cities that have been exposed to air and water pollution from chemical plants, refineries and other industrial sites. Illegal dumpsites not only attract rodents, mosquitos and other vermin that pose health risks, but they can also contaminate surface water and make neighborhoods more susceptible to flooding, Clarke said. They also can lower property values, harm quality of life and even reduce expected lifespans, Clarke and other officials said. “No one in the United States should be exposed to risk of illness and other serious harm because of ineffective solid waste management or inadequate enforcement programs,” she said. The Houston investigation will focus on Trinity/Houston Gardens, a predominantly Black and Latino neighborhood in northeastern Houston. Residents frequently complain about illegal dumping there, Clarke said. Traffic moves along Interstate 10 near downtown Houston, April 30, 2020. The Justice Department said Friday, July 22, <strong>2022</strong>, that it is investigating illegal dumping in the city of Houston, including dead bodies, that officials said are left in Black and Latino neighborhoods in the nation’s fourth largest city. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip, File) the year, Houston residents called the city’s 311 line more than 5,400 times to complain about illegal dumping, the Houston Chronicle reported. That’s nearly as many complaints as recorded in all of 2021, the newspaper said. “It’s a huge problem across the entire city,” city council member Martha Castex-Tatum told the paper. Castex-Tatum blamed much of the illegal dumping on landscaping and construction crews or landlords clearing out recently vacated apartments. Besides tires and mattresses, other items frequently dumped include air conditioners, water heaters and major appliances, she said. The federal inquiry follows a complaint by Lone Star Legal Aid, a nonprofit advocacy group that helps low-income residents in Texas and Arkansas on a range of legal issues, including landlord-tenant disputes, foreclosures, disaster recovery and environmental justice. A spokesperson for the Houston-based group could not be immediately reached for comment. Mary Benton, a spokeswoman for Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, said July 22 that she was “not aware of” dead bodies being dumped anywhere in Houston. The city doubled its maximum fine for illegal dumping violations last year, she said. Even so, the problem persists. During the first six months of 8 | Chief Engineer
AMSC Announces $40 Million of New Energy Power System Orders AYER, Mass. (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — AMSC®, a leading system provider of megawatt-scale power resiliency solutions that orchestrate the rhythm and harmony of power on the grid and protect and expand the capability of our Navy’s fleet, recently announced $40 million of new energy power systems orders. This includes orders for reactive compensation, enclosed capacitor banks, harmonic filters, voltage controllers, rectifiers and transformers. More than half of the revenue from these orders is expected to be recognized in fiscal year <strong>2022</strong>. “Tailwinds in our key markets are driving an acceleration in bookings of our new energy power systems solutions,” said Daniel P. McGahn, Chairman, President and CEO, AMSC. “The semiconductor industry is expected to continue to increase capital spending in the coming years. The move to decarbonization and to achieve energy independence among numerous nations is also expected to translate into broadened adoption of renewable power systems across the globe. We believe these dynamics have the capability to support demand of our products for the medium to long term.” AMSC’s new energy power systems solutions include D-VAR® and D-VAR VVO® offerings as well as NEPSITM and NeeltranTM businesses. Customers utilize AMSC’s solutions to provide voltage control, power factor correction, and reactive compensation to stabilize the power grid and prevent undesirable events such as voltage collapse. The systems are designed to detect and instantaneously compensate for voltage disturbances. Along with Neeltran, AMSC offers power conversion products. These products include transformers and rectifiers. Additionally, the systems help utilities manage their power quality concerns and expand grid capacity for renewable distributed generation. Volume 87 · Number 8 | 9
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