No. 841 Cindy King, 2008

File — Box: 76, Folder: 10

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Scope and Contents

Cindy King talks about joining the Sierra Club with her husband in 1986, after having discussions with her daughter about the environment. She also started a committee for Water, Air and Hazardous, and Radioactive Waste. In 1987, King participated in a lawsuit for attainment for particulate matter with the Clean Air coalition of Utah County. She talks about working with companies like Geneva and Kennecott. King then worked on problems related to hazardous waste and the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, particularly a move to build an incinerator. She lobbied with the Sierra Club in Washington DC for the next six years. She describes working to improve emergency response kits related to hazardous waste events. In 1996 she was part of the Chemical Weapons Working Group that filed suit against the chemical weapons facility in relation to the waste incinerator in Utah, and then again in Arkansas and Oregon. She also discusses working with Envirocare on the hazardous release. In 2000, she was sued by Envirocare for sixty million dollars. Between 2003 and 2006, she was looking into an incinerator in North Salt Lake run by a company called Stericycle.
Project: Utah Environmental oral history project.
Interviewer: Robert DeBirk.

Dates

2008

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