No better example of Sanders’ environmental racism and classism is his disgusting actions dumping nuclear waste into a poor town (inhabited mainly by Chicanos (Mexican Americans). Interestingly, Sanders so vigorously opposed dumping nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain, making him a hypocrite.
Sanders worked with then-Texas Gov. George Bush to lead the charge for dumping nuclear waste from Vermont’s Vernon reactor in Sierra Blanca, an impoverished town inhabited mainly by Chicanos on the border with Mexico.Together, they worked to pass the Maine-Vermont-Texas nuclear waste compact, and then took advantage of Bill Clinton’s decision to allow interstate transportation of low-level nuclear waste. Sierra Blanca, already a toxic waste dump, has thus been poisoned for generations.
However much Sanders may oppose the transportation and dumping of nuclear waste in Yucca Mountain for threatening the health of people in Las Vegas, he and the Toxic Texan, George Bush, established the precedent for this with their compact in the 1990s.
Here’s a website which was an effort of Vermonters to stop the dumping of toxic waste, the Vermont Sierra Blanca Campaign. Could they count on Bernie for support? Ha, who ya kiddin’? Bernie was involved with the toxic mess.
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