MIttal Pollution Observations 08/07/10 6-7 PM

Evelyn just drove the Mittal route and observed lighter than usual industrial activity and pollution at that time, and the Cuyahoga valley looked pretty clear - seems to match pollution monitor data that is working (Medina and Painesville at least are not working properly at this time). Photos captured - will capture correct screenshots and track remotely.

Evelyn said Mittal may have been stoking up at the time she observed... it is the weekend so this could have been a slow order day - watch for evening activity and spikes and report here... it is a nice clean clear night to pollute... easy to hide in the darkness

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Akron and Youngstown NO DATA at 5 pm

Painesville NO DATA all day... Medina stuck at 7 am all day...  as usual

Warren only reporting for 2r hours periods as usual.

Only one monitor reporting for Cleveland when there are two monitoring stations

Cleveland pollution rose chart not working

All related comparative and trend charts and analyses therefore wrong

So about half the monitors are working in any way that is at all reliable today, and they are worthless as a pollution monitoring system - lucky it is a nice day

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Report Prior to Medical Center Company hearing on Tuesday!

Norm Roulet <norm [dot] roulet [at] gmail [dot] com>	Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 11:13 PM
To: hedman [dot] susan [at] epa [dot] gov, dorosz [dot] geri [at] epa [dot] gov, ceam [at] epa [dot] gov, catcmail [at] epa [dot] gov, info [dot] chief [at] epa [dot] gov, environmental-justice-epa [at] epa [dot] gov, benabel [at] indecon [dot] com, nelson [dot] peg [at] epa [dot] gov, OIG_Hotline [at] epa [dot] gov, Hotline [dot] IRIS [at] epa [dot] gov, ppic [at] epa [dot] gov Cc: "Aneesh P. Chopra" <achopra [at] ostp [dot] eop [dot] gov>, "evelyn. kiefer" <evelyn [dot] kiefer [at] case [dot] edu>, "Reitman, Mattie" <mattie [dot] reitman [at] sierraclub [dot] org>
Dear representative of the EPA,

Please see below a message I sent Friday to Mr. Aneesh Chopra, US CTO, regarding air monitoring problems that have been ongoing for years in Northeast Ohio. I brought these issues to the attention of the Ohio EPA, Cleveland Air Quality and our regional clearinghouse, NOACA, with poor response.

I previously contacted the office of Sherrod Brown, our Senator, regarding this, as his brother Robert Brown is Chairman of the Board of Medical Center Company - a major pollution source point polluting our neighborhood, quite secretively. Sherrod's staff told me I was being political for raising the issue and to get lost (I'm a Democrat?!?) - Sherrod has historically been pro-coal. Sherrod's brother refuses to grant public meetings to discuss these problems with his plant. I've asked for his resignation, for contempt.

There is an EPA hearing about the permit for Brown's coal steam plant - Medical Center Company - this coming Tuesday, August 10. For that hearing I intend to submit evidence of ineffective monitoring of air quality here, making it impossible to determine the actual safety of the plant in question. It is that big of a mess. I intend to submit that material to Mr. Chopra, in the interest of improvements in national air quality monitoring technologies, and I would like to submit a copy as high up the EPA as possible, as well.

Here is a link to information about this hearing.

http://realneo.us/events/epa-hosting-public-hearing-discuss-citizen-concerns-over-mcco-university-circle-coal-powerpla

The Sierra Club is helping us address these issues to the national and global level, and I've asked the help of the White House as well. The Sierra Club suggested I escalate the issue within the EPA and I am happy to discuss my concerns as appropriate.... please have the right people get in touch if you may. See links below for related information.

Thank you in advance for your attention to this important issue.

Best regards,

Norm Roulet
Citizen
1894 Roxbury Road
East Cleveland, Ohio 44112
216-688-5221

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From: Norm Roulet <norm [dot] roulet [at] gmail [dot] com>
Date: Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 12:44 PM
Subject: Report Prior to Medical Center Company hearing on Tuesday!
To: "Aneesh P. Chopra" <achopra [at] osrp [dot] eop [dot] gov>
Cc: "Reitman, Mattie" <mattie [dot] reitman [at] sierraclub [dot] org>

Aneesh P. Chopra
Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer
Associate Director for Technology
Executive Office of the President
Office of Science and Technology Policy
Washington, DC 20502

Dear Mr. Chopra,

We met briefly at the City Club of Cleveland and I requested your card to follow-up regarding an investigation into irregularities in our environmental monitoring data and technologies in Ohio.

I am preparing to report on these concerns to the EPA, in writing and during a permit renewal hearing in Cleveland, August 10, 2010, highlighting the fact that the citizens of Cleveland, Northeast Ohio and the world have been denied accurate, actionable air quality data here for so long, and our air quality monitoing systems are so poorly architected, it is safe to say we have no idea how polluted and polluting we are. As such, no permits to pollute further should be issued here.

We need to fix our current environmental systems technologies now and provide better community-based and citizen-accountable pollution control systems for America's future - and these systems must be open source, developed and maintained in a ways that are cooperative with citizens. I have much to share on those concepts and systems, under separate cover.

I have proposed to the Sierra Club they may be an optimal third party infomediary for citizens to partner with the US Government on these challenges, as they are the organization helping us fix our pollution problems here at home. Mattie Reitman with the Sierra Club is included in this correspondence, and it is made public on realNEO.us - Regional Economics Action Links for North East Ohio - which is a cooperative-owned Drupal CMS I founded to transform this region and the world with open source IT - not a commercial plug... we are decidedly NOT commercial)

I know these environmental technology issues will concern you and I am preparing my report on these concerns for your primary review. I would like to deliver a copy to your office Monday, August 9, before our EPA hearing, so your office is appropriately briefed. Please let me know if a member of your staff would be available to discuss the report and concerns raised therein in person.

Below is forwarded email correspondence with the Sierra Club regarding these concerns, and more information is found on realNEO at the following links - pardon some very human subjects and language, strong viewpoints and satire, but we are truly polluted here, and it often shows...:

http://realneo.us/events/epa-hosting-public-hearing-discuss-citizen-concerns-over-mcco-university-circle-coal-powerpla
http://realneo.us/content/after-reading-your-message-im-concerned-about-human-impacts-pollution-northeast-ohio
http://realneo.us/polls/lets-play-judge-ohio-epa-will-their-moderate-air-quality-forecast-tomorrow-be-accurate
http://realneo.us/content/i-am-contact-senators-staff-about-these-conflicts-interest
http://realneo.us/Report-to-CTO
http://realneo.us/realNEOair
http://realneo.us/content/EPARegionMars
http://realneo.us/NoMutants
http://realneo.us/content/un-sustainable-cleveland-2019-meet-realhoe-2010-hell-earth-real-neo-compliments-our-leadersh

All this material will be provided in print and with electronic links in my report.

I appreciate your vision for the value of information technology to transform the world for the better - I believe we must begin that process at the core, being to really fix the environment with optimal information technology... creating 1,000,000s of the greenest jobs on Earth ever, in the process.

I look forward to seeing these problems solved through your office, and I send my best regards,

Norm Roulet
ICEarth - realNEO - real coop
norm [at] realneo [dot] us
216-688-5221

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Your people need to find a new god

Norm Roulet <norm [at] realneo [dot] us>	Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:24 PM
To: Mary Devring
Message to National Democratic Party:

We have serious problems with the leadership of the Democratic Party
in Cuyahoga County. At this stage, I consider the corruption and evil
a threat to the nation. Please contact me to discuss. I am a
whistleblower against localized EPA corruption here and consider my
family in harm's way as a result of the lack of morals of our
Democratic leadership here... and I am a Democrat (a real one).

On Sat, Aug 7, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Norm Roulet <norm [at] realneo [dot] us> wrote:
> Your people need to find a new god. I hope the Cuyahoga County and
> Ohio Democratic Parties are not representative of the national
> Democratic party - I shall find out. Do you want to offer any
> explanations to me?
>
> --
> Norm Roulet
> ICEarth
> 216-688-5221
> Disrupt IT
>

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Norm Roulet
ICEarth
216-688-5221
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oxygen is 80% of our energy - everyone get oxygen equipment - get a doctor to prescribe (easy these days - can't breath - hard to breath ) insurane will pay medicare medicaid  - sliding scale emergancy rooms - cleveland metro hospiitol etc.  - did you say it norm - 50% of our oxygen is gone from the old days - they have oxygen machines that make it - carry aroud with you - at home - friends homes - i'm getting one for my self and yogi - i will be at lincoln park - tremont offering folks free oxygen hits -

yogi and guy http://www.nationalwardogsmonument.org/

norm - all - ustream.com - live video - 7/24 - with a camer attached to your computor - watch pollution etc. from your home window - camer on your home - car etc

yogi and guy http://www.nationalwardogsmonument.org/