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Brunswick Environmental Action Team

BEAT is deeply disappointed that the U.S. Federal government has let the clear and present evidence of mis-direction and criminal negligence, by both DuPont and Chemours, go unaccounted for.

Private individuals in this country dare not expect to be treated with equally entitlement-granting kid gloves as these "Too Big Too Fail" corporate polluters and stockholders do.

Chemours, knowingly and forever, tainted the water supply of the southeastern portion of North Carolina. And generations to come will continue to suffer from their intentional negligence!

BEAT now also feels the federal government is complicit in these acts by allowing such criminally aggressive polluters off-the-hook despite a clear trail of malfeasance and deception.

North Carolina's citizens deserve better. We should be able to depend on our government for protection from corporations that harm the right of citizens to enjoy precious natural clean air, water and soil (our common heritage). Instead, they have set a dubious precedent for other like-minded profiteers to follow; make billions of dollars in profits over the years while poisoning our waters. "Why worry?" they may ask in their board meetings, "there will be no accountability for criminal corporate pollution of the water supply for millions of North Carolinians."

Warm Regards, Pete Key

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Environmental Lobbying in D.C. on November 14-15, 2017

Ten BEAT members travelled from Brunswick County to Washington DC on November 15 to lobby on Capitol Hill on behalf of the Marine Mammals Protection Act. The BEAT contingent met with Congressmen Rouzer and Butterfield and with the legislative assistants of Senators Burr and Tillis. Shortly after meeting with the staffers, the Senators announced their opposition to President Trump's nominee to the Environmental Protection Agency. In addition to meeting environmentalists from all over the country the BEAT team was treated to a private tour of the United States Capitol.

THE BEAT CREW IN DC: Left to right: Sandy Ford, Kristen Colleran, Bruce Holsten, Mary Baggett, Barbara Kucinski-Gilbert, Dwight Willis, Neil Gilbert, Becky Willis, Pete Key, Beth Key

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