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BREAKING NEWS: Important Deadline TODAY for Eliminating MHF/HF Risk

MODIFIED HYDROFLUORIC ACID RISKGardena, CA, United States
May 23, 2016
When will our loved ones be safe from MHF/HF? When it's is no longer used where we live! Will our elected respresentatives HELP us replace MHF/HF? That depends on WHO we elect! Today is the deadline to VOTE. Not registered? Do it now! http://registertovote.ca.gov/ POWER IN NUMBERS: As of today, together, we are over 5,600 voices who object to MHF/HF. Over 2100 of us live in Torrance. The last Torrance City Council election was decided by just 765 votes. Over 4000 of us live in State Assembly District #66. That election was decided by just 706 votes. 4200 live in State Senate District #35. 13 people have stepped forward and want to represent us. When it comes to MHF/HF WHO WILL GET THE JOB DONE? TORRANCE CITY COUNCIL For Torrance City Council, our cause has a champion in Dr. Eng http://www.dr-geng.com/exxonmobil-refinery/ Protecting our loved ones from injury or death due to MHF/HF is his #1 priority. We have the numbers. We can elect Dr Eng to the Torrance City Council. Can't vote? Tell Dr Eng, thank you for representing our concerns http://www.dr-geng.com/support/ http://www.dr-geng.com/contact/ STATE ASSEMBLY RACE: There are 3 candidates covering the region surrounding ExxonMobil https://ballotpedia.org/California_State_Assembly_District_66 Candidate Forum https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzdERx08b0 MHF/HF issue starts at time 6:51 Al Muratsutchi SUPPORTS an outright state legislative ban on MHF/HF: http://www.alforassembly.com/ Mike Madrigal is OPPOSED to a state law to ban MHF. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0NzdERx08b0 Incumbent David Hadley, states than a multi-year transition (due to "permits" etc) is the best case scenario for eliminating the risk of MHF/HF. Although he served on the committee to review AB 1759 (the assembly bill to replace MHF/HF introduced Feb, 2016) he said the bill would not pass the full legislature in it's current form. Though the issue was personally important to him (he lives a few hundred yards from the refinery) he didn't offer ways to fix the bill or keep it alive. In his words, nothing could be done for the next year. According to AB 1759's sponsoring office, ExxonMobil threatened to close the Torrance Refinery if the bill was passed. It's unclear if this is what stopped David Hadley from helping the bill forward. STATE SENATE RACE: https://ballotpedia.org/California_State_Senate_District_35 All candidates have been contacted. More to follow WILL WE EVER BE SAFE? It's HIGHLY unlikely any refinery will "volunteer" to keep us safe by removing MHF/HF. With an estimated price tag of $150M, the drop in gas prices all but assures this. Legislation MUST BE PASSED. If the law needs to build in time for transition. FINE. Just get it on the books...
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