Jen Ambrose Cotter uses her blog, “Bipartisan Victory Garden,” to bring attention to Cabot-Koppers, the wood-treatment facility that has been listed by the federal government as a contaminated Superfund site for more than 25 years.
She researches the 90-acre piece of toxic land and how the Environmental Protection Agency plans to clean up the site.
“I have not been so angry and outraged in years,” Cotter said. “I had to strip this beast called Koppers down to its bones to understand how this could have happened, and how it could be transformed.”
But the clock is ticking for Cotter and others poring over the EPA’s plan.
Friday is the last day allowed for public comment on the plan.
After that, “it won’t go on record, which means they won’t be accountable for taking you seriously,” said Cotter.
With her blog, www.bvg.cotterindustries.com, Cotter aims to educate and gain enough influence with people to “take on any federal agency.”
To make public comment on the EPA plan, Protect Gainesville’s Citizens Inc. encourages visiting www.protectgainesville.org or e-mailing EPA Project Manager Scott Miller directly at miller.scott@epamail.epa.gov.
