New York Parkinson's Prevention Campaign

Sixth, Learn About: Massive Trichloroethylene Contamination in Brooklyn's Gowanus Canal Community Illustrates How New Yorkers Are Unknowingly Exposed to Environmental Health Hazards

Seventh, Write to Governor Hochul: Personalized Request for Soil Vapor Intrusion Testing Of My Home And Comprehensive Cleanup Of Toxic Sites That Threaten My Health and Well-Being

7/30/24: Toxics Targeting Documents Trichloroethylene Indoor Air Contamination Near Ithaca Gun

Toxics Targeting and Voice of Gowanus Release Previously Withheld Gowanus Canal Area Indoor Air Contamination Results
That Document Extraordinarily High-Level Trichloroethylene Threats to Thousands of Residents

TCE environmental exposures must be eliminated by requiring New York's legacy of tens of thousands of toxic dumps, chemical spills and pollution discharges to be comprehensively investigated and remediated. Our state requires toxic sites to be restored to "pre-disposal condition, to the extent feasible," but strict enforcement of this requirement is inexcusably lax. New York's "polluter pays" cleanup mandate must be fully enforced.

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Parkinson's disease, also known simply as Parkinson's, is an incurable ailment that can cause debilitating physical problems, including tremors and loss of motor skills, balance and coordination that can lead to severe movement impairment. Parkinson's can also cause mental health disorders that intensify over time.

Parkinson's is the fastest growing neurodegenerative ailment in America. Nationwide, more than one million Americans are afflicted with Parkinson's. On an annual basis, nearly 90,000 people are diagnosed with the malady. Almost everyone knows someone afflicted with Parkinson's.

Even though billions of dollars have been invested in Parkinson's research, there is no cure for the ailment. That is why it is imperative to help people avoid contracting the disease if at all possible. That is the goal of The New York Parkinson's Prevention Campaign.

Parkinson's was long thought to be idiopathic, or associated with unknown causes, but statistically significant epidemiological health investigations document that a widespread neurotoxic environmental and workplace contaminant called Trichloroethylene (TCE) is causally associated with increasing Parkinson's risk by up to 500%.

Selected Epidemiological and Scientific Articles Regarding Trichloroethylene and Increased Risk of Parkinson's

For more than a century TCE was widely used as a degreasing agent, chemical intermediate, ingredient in hundreds of consumer and industrial products as well as a dry cleaning solvent and spot remover. TCE is nearly ubiquitous in developed communities as an air, land and water pollutant because it resists degradation. TCE has been detected in drinking water all over New York and from coast-to-coast. Millions of New Yorkers were also exposed to TCE in workplace settings before the use of the chemical was prohibited in our state in 2021.

Read more about the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's TCE Industry Classifications...

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Kindra's Experience with Parkinson's and Trichloroethylene Contamination

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The Solution

Preventing Parkinson's can be achieved, in part, by eliminating exposures to Trichloroethylene in indoor air, outdoor ambient air, drinking water and all environmental settings.

With that goal in mind and given the inadequacy of the Hochul Administration's efforts to require remediation of Brownfields and other toxic sites before authorizing redevelopments, advocacy efforts are underway to require a moratorium on all State Brownfield approvals until New York's toxic site cleanup requirements are strictly enforced.

Request That New York State Assembly Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Glick Impose a Moratorium on New State Brownfield Approvals Until All Applicable Regulatory Cleanup Requirements are Strictly Enforced

Request That New York State Senate Environmental Conservation Committee Chair Harckham Impose a Moratorium on New State Brownfield Approvals Until All Applicable Regulatory Cleanup Requirements are Strictly Enforced