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For 25 years, Ford Motor Company dumped toxic waste from a nearby factory into New Jersey's Ringwood State Park.
Members of the Ramapough tribe,
who've lived on the land for generations, routinely fell ill from
various poisons. Their children suffered nosebleeds any time they played
outside.
Cancer rates in the area are
elevated, and the Bergen Record found arsenic and lead one hundred times
above safe levels in the nearby Wanaque Watershed, which supplies water
to millions.
But instead of working to clean up the area, the Environmental Protection Agency is actually considering giving the land back to Ford to use it as a toxic waste dump.
There's not much time left to protect the park -- the EPA is announcing its plan in less than two weeks.
Edison Wetlands Association
started a petition on Change.org asking the EPA to keep the park public
and make Ford clean up the park for the public's use. Click
here to add your name to Edison Wetlands' petition to demand the EPA
protect Ringwood State Park from Ford's continued pollution.
Right now, Ford is secretly
lobbying both state and federal officials to gain the right to resume
toxic dumping in the park. But a national outcry can outdo them.
Sign Edison Wetlands' petition to the stop Ford from polluting before the EPA's deadline in less than two weeks:
http://www.change.org/petitions/save-ringwood-state-park-dont-let-ford-motor-company-use-it-as-a-toxic-landfill
Thanks for being a change-maker,
- Corinne and the Change.org team | 
