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Ooh, I have thoughts about that last pic of Briss/Bords. Briss is now wearing a chain…has he been around Bords too long? 😂 and Bords with scruff starting in? 😍🥵 (I have a thing for dudes with 5 o’clock shadows…).
I must know all your girl!Thom thoughts though on the situation…
how do i get a google doc declared a superfund site and access federal funding to assist with cleanup? asking for a friend. my friend is a google doc that contains only run-on sentences of filth about thom in a sundress.
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Federal prosecutors in Marquette continue their crackdown on domestic violence that happened on tribal nations located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Federal prosecutors in Marquette continue their crackdown on domestic violence that happened on tribal nations located in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan
Baraga County man faces justice after allegedly pummeling his girlfriend twice on KBIC lands
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 (Marquette, MI) – Federal prosecutors in Marquette continue their no-nonsense stance on domestic violence as Baraga County man charged in federal court with twice assaulting a Native woman from Keweenaw Bay Indian…
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New story in Politics from Time: Trump Administration Completes Fewest Toxic Superfund Cleanups in More Than 30 Years
(WASHINGTON) — The Trump administration completed the fewest cleanups of toxic Superfund sites last year than any administration since the program’s first years in the 1980s, figures released by the Environmental Protection Agency indicated Wednesday.
The federal government wrapped up cleanups at six Superfund sites around the country in the 2019 budget year, the fewest since three in 1986, EPA online records showed.
The Superfund program was born out of the 1970’s disaster at Love Canal in New York, where industrial contaminants poisoned groundwater, spurred complaints of health problems and prompted presidential emergency declarations. Congress started the Superfund program in 1980, with the mission of tackling the country’s worst contaminated sites to remove the threat to surrounding residents and the environment.
President Donald Trump campaigned on pledges to cut environmental protections he saw as unfriendly to business. In office, Trump has presided over rollbacks and proposed rollbacks of a series of protections for air, water, wildlife and other environmental and public health concerns, as well as sharp declines in many categories of enforcement against polluters.
The EPA posted the 2019 figures on its website earlier this month. The tally also shows one cleanup completed so far this budget year.
“Cleaning up Superfund Sites has been and remains a top priority of this Administration,” EPA spokeswoman Corry Schiermeyer said in response to questions from The Associated Press. “Many of the sites currently on the NPL (National Priorities List) are very large, complex and technically challenging and often require numerous construction projects to complete that are frequently phased in over many years.”
Superfund cleanups completed fell into the single digits just once before in the past 20 years, in 2014.
The AP reported in January that the administration also has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund cleanup projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the Obama era.
The administration initially called Superfund cleanups part of the core mission of the EPA. But Trump’s budget proposal for next year calls for slashing money for the Superfund program by $113 million. As in previous years, the White House asked Congress to cut the EPA budget by more than 20%.
Congress largely has ignored Trump’s calls for EPA cuts, keeping the agency’s money roughly stable.
Elizabeth Southerland, a former EPA official who now is part of a network of hundreds of former EPA staffers often critical of Trump rollbacks, said the administration was failing to brief Congress on how much it really needs for the program. She called it “heartbreaking” for the people at risk around the sites.
“Communities are being forced to live for years longer than necessary waiting for cleanup to be completed,” Southerland said.
Under Trump, the EPA initially pointed to a different measure in declaring it was making progress on Superfund cleanups: the number of cleaned up sites officially deleted from the roster of more than 1,300 Superfund projects.
But deletions from the list typically reflect cleanup work done over decades and often completed on the ground years ago, meaning Trump frequently was taking credit for work done under President Barack Obama and other predecessors. The EPA said it deleted all or part of 27 sites from the list last year.
By ELLEN KNICKMEYER / AP on February 19, 2020 at 08:57PM
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Daily Challenge in Puerto Rico: Finding Enough Bottled Water to Drink
By Caitlin Dickerson, NY Times, Oct. 12, 2017
SAN JUAN, P.R.--After a day spent working in an office in the dark, without air conditioning, Iris Díaz arrived at her neighborhood CVS drugstore desperate for what has quickly become one of the most sought-after items in Puerto Rico: bottled water.
A sales clerk standing behind the checkout counter explained that the store had been out of stock for three days.
“Ni una sola botellita?” Ms. Díaz pleaded in Spanish. “Not even one little bottle?”
The employee shook her head and apologized.
Three weeks after Hurricane Maria tore through Puerto Rico, the challenge of finding enough water to drink and cook with remains enormous across the island, even in its largest city. People here engage in a perpetual game of cat and mouse, scouring the city for any hints of places with water to sell.
People are so desperate that on Wednesday the Environmental Protection Agency cited reports of residents trying to obtain drinking water from wells at hazardous Superfund sites. “E.P.A. advises against tampering with sealed and locked wells or drinking from these wells, as it may be dangerous to people’s health,” the agency said.
The demand has skyrocketed, according to grocery store managers, distributors and supply companies, because safe, drinkable tap water is still largely unavailable, and deliveries of water from the outside have not kept up with demand. Even Puerto Ricans who have been told that their local water is safe to drink are avoiding it because of reports that infectious diseases are spreading on the island.
The sight of water delivery trucks outside stores is prompting long lines to form. Crushes of customers snatch up new shipments even before store employees can restock empty shelves. Of 10 stores in San Juan that were visited on Tuesday and Wednesday, only one had bottled water: a Wal-Mart store where two brawny men were loading cases of water directly off a shipping palette into the shopping carts of people who had lined up in the back of the store. Signs posted on the walls declared a limit of one case per group.
Phillip Keene, director of corporate communications for Walmart, said that during the storm, the company had safeguarded palettes of water on cargo ships that were sent out to sea and away from Maria’s path. Since then, the company has been delivering about six million bottles of water a week to Puerto Rico from the continental United States, and it is making plans to double the supply as soon as possible. Mr. Keen added that before the storm, Walmart stores in Puerto Rico generally sold about 300,000 cases of water a week, almost all of it bottled from sources on the island.
“It’s pretty amazing,” he said, “There’s a real sense of urgency.”
Some Puerto Ricans, particularly those in rural areas, are relying entirely on water provided as emergency aid by FEMA. The water is sent to local distribution centers, and then delivered door to door by local governments.
Federal officials said that as of Wednesday, more than six million liters of water had arrived on the island, but that damaged ports, roads and bridges had slowed the deliveries, especially to the interior of the commonwealth. Officials say 75 percent of the island’s ports are open, and they are receiving about 1,100 containers of supplies a day, close to the 1,400 that came in daily before the storm.
The lack of water is far worse than anything experienced in Florida and Texas after Hurricanes Irma and Harvey. Relief experts say that because of the extent of damage to Puerto Rico’s water systems, the scale of the overall destruction and the difficulty of delivering aid to an island rather than on the mainland, it did not make sense to compare the response in Puerto Rico with Florida or Texas in terms of efficiency or focus.
“What happened in Texas and Florida were disasters,” said W. Craig Fugate, who was FEMA administrator under President Barack Obama. “What happened in Puerto Rico was a catastrophe.”
Before Maria hit, most of the bottled water consumed in Puerto Rico was produced in factories on the island, according to Manuel Reyes Alfonso, executive vice president of the Puerto Rico Chamber for the Marketing and Distribution of the Food Industry, a trade association of grocery manufacturers, distributors and store owners. Most of those facilities lost power during the storm and are now operating on generators, which only allow them to produce a small fraction of their normal output.
The island was already running low on bottled water before the storm, because it was exporting a lot to places that had been damaged by Hurricanes Harvey and Irma, Mr. Reyes Alfonso said.
The Puerto Rican government said it has taken steps to make more water accessible, like allowing the two largest dairy companies, Suiza Dairy and Tres Monjitas, to bottle potable water in milk containers.
In the CVS where Ms. Diaz was shopping, Carmen Santiago, a 74-year-old retired English professor wearing a plaid shirt and cargo pants, said she had given up on finding water in stores. She said she was surviving on a single bottle a day, which was all that the hospital in her neighborhood would sell to each person who came to buy water--for $1.25 each.
She was at CVS in search of boxes of orange juice, an alternative to water that would be light enough for her to carry back to her apartment on foot. She found none on the shelves, but a store employee who saw her searching disappeared into a stock room and returned with news that a shipment had just arrived. Ms. Santiago jumped up and down, and her eyes became teary.
In a store in the Hato Rey neighborhood called Plaza Louiza, which was open despite having no electricity, shoppers caromed around in the dark on Tuesday, looking for essentials and seeming to ignore the smell of rotting food.
Down an aisle of dry goods, Maritza Pérez used the light from her cellphone to illuminate the prices of ramen noodles and rice. She had come looking for water, but the store had none available. It was her fifth unsuccessful try of the day.
Her home was still without electricity or water. She, her husband and their 12-year-old son were growing impatient with having to drink a kind of storm tea--boiled tap water, which she said had turned a yellowish hue after the storm.
“Water is the most important thing--more important than light,” she huffed, sounding exhausted.
At the front of the store, two deliverymen from grocery-supply companies were sitting on the floor, scanning their lists of orders. They were trying to call the clients they planned to visit next, but were mostly unsuccessful, because cellphone service in the area is still very limited.
Elvin Cortes, one of the deliverymen, said that he had been perpetually out of water since the storm hit. His deliveries took longer than normal because many roads were still impassable. On top of that, he said, much of the island is suffering from crippling traffic jams because most traffic lights are still out, turning major intersections into chaotic and dangerous 4-way stops.
“It’s impossible for us to do our jobs,” he said, “And it’s not getting any better.”
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Trump Spins Environmental Record In White House Speech
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President Donald Trump downplayed his assault on environmental protections and touted a shorter record of achievements Monday, in a bid to recast his document of deregulating polluters and aggravating the local climate crisis ahead of future year’s election. 
In an afternoon speech at the White Home, the president available voters a counter-narrative to what the Sierra Club called “the worst report on the surroundings and local climate motion of any president in the history of the region.” 
“Among the heritage we should protect is our country’s remarkable organic splendor,” Trump said. “That is the shared obligation that brings us with each other right now.” 
It was a boisterous back again-patting session in which the president’s Cupboard customers and a pair of random supporters, like a folksy bait-and-deal with store proprietor from Florida, created an alternate fact. In their telling, amplified fossil gas output available indubitable development on the climate disaster, and credit rating for the effects of a fifty percent-century of regulation was owed to a president in electrical power for just above two a long time. 
Six other speakers took the podium for the duration of the 45-moment affair. Environmental Security Agency Administrator Andrew Wheeler, White House Council on Environmental High-quality Chair Mary Neumayr and Power Secretary Rick Perry gave obsequious, boilerplate talks lionizing Trump as an environmentalist. 
Bruce Hrobak, the shop owner, available comedian aid as he gushed above a president who “brings his coronary heart to warmth.” Colleen Roberts, a local commissioner in Jackson County, Oregon, praised the Trump administration’s initiatives to give nearby officers a lot more energy more than normal disaster aid applications.
All of the speakers have been white, and none created point out of the disproportionate impression pollution has on communities of colour, specially African American communities.
The White Home took no concerns from reporters. 
All of the speakers were being white, and none produced point out of the disproportionate influence air pollution has on communities of colour, especially African American communities.
Trump checked off a listing that bundled only a few objectively unharmful steps, such as signing a bipartisan monthly bill to decrease rubbish in the oceans and the completion of function on Superfund internet sites, which in many scenarios started many years back. But other “accomplishments,” as the White House place it, call for jarringly selective context to get paid these a label.
The administration boasted that a 74% reduction in air air pollution due to the fact 1970 showed a continued “decline beneath President Trump’s leadership.” Still an AP investigation of federal details final thirty day period located a 15% improve in days with unhealthy air in the United States in 2017 and 2018, in contrast to 2013 by 2016. 
Trump touted his designation of 1.3 million acres of general public land for protection, together with a new 18-square-mile national maritime sanctuary in Maryland that the Countrywide Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration declared Monday early morning. But the president signed lawfully contested proclamations in December 2017 to shrink two national monuments by much more than 2 million acres, in an clear bid to open up mining opportunities in Southwestern lands that indigenous tribes take into account sacred. 
Axios described Trump’s speech as a “Javanka Special” since the president’s daughter Ivanka Trump and her husband, White Property adviser Jared Kushner, shaped its information. It was intended to get again suburban swing voters who secured Trump’s victory in 2016 but went for Democrats in the 2018 midterm elections. 
Just 29% of Americans accredited of Trump’s managing of weather transform, even though 62% disapproved, marking by much his least expensive efficiency rankings on 8 separate troubles in a Washington Article-ABC Information poll introduced last week. The concern is a top concern for candidates vying for the Democratic nomination to choose on Trump subsequent 12 months. Several major contenders unveiled detailed programs to decarbonize huge swaths of the U.S. financial system. A single hopeful, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee (D), staked his total campaign on combating climate modify, placing out some of the most aggressive, particulars proposals ever set forward by a sitting down politician. 
The administration boasted a 74% reduction in air pollution considering the fact that 1970 … but federal details past month showed a 15% increase in days with unhealthy air in the United States in 2017 and 2018, in comparison to 2013 through 2016.
Trump claimed the Green New Deal, the 1st policy framework to still arise that matches the scope of the weather crisis, would price “nearly $100 trillion,” calling the figure “unthinkable” and “not even economical in the most effective of periods.” The determine, as it occurs, is absolutely bogus, fabricated by Republican operatives to deride the virally popular proposal. 
Monday’s speech will come with ironic timing for a president who, in his initial calendar year in workplace, signed an executive get rescinding a prerequisite that federal infrastructure assignments like roads and bridges be designed to face up to flooding and excessive weather from local climate change. 
Just several hours right before the speech, torrential rain brought on flash floods that inundated the Beltway. In one particular movie posted to Twitter, a waterfall of rain gushed down from the honeycombed ceiling of one Metro subway station. Pics confirmed drivers climbing on prime of 50 percent-submerged vehicles as they awaited rescue groups. 
“It’s fitting that President Trump is endorsing his dreadful environmental report on the exact day that the White Property is flooding following a historic storm,” Inslee stated in a assertion. “If this weren’t serious lifetime, it would be a headline in The Onion.”
Trump will not endeavor to backtrack on his yearslong record of mocking local weather science with what seem to be deliberately antagonistic statements conflating short-term cold snaps with extensive-phrase international warming developments. Nor will he disavow his conclusion to withdraw the United States from the Paris local weather accord or propose rollbacks or delays of far more than 80 restrictions to suppress pollution, significantly earth-warming emissions from fossil fuels. 
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President Donald Trump is preparing for 2020 by trying to recast his report of deregulating polluters and aggravating the weather crisis.
In its place, Trump derided the United Nations-brokered agreement between every single regarded country on Earth to slash emissions as “unfair, ineffective and extremely, extremely costly,” contacting it a “radical plan” that “will not make the globe cleaner.” 
“The preceding administration waged a relentless war on American electricity ― we just can’t do that,” Trump mentioned. “They sought to punish our workers, our producers and our brands with ineffective world agreements” to shift generation to countries with decreased pollution standards. 
In a get in touch with with reporters ahead of the speech, Wheeler, a former coal lobbyist, argued the administration is “addressing climate change” by finalizing the Reasonably priced Thoroughly clean Energy rule very last month. The EPA was lawfully essential to craft the rule as a substitute to the Obama-period Clean up Electric power Plan, but the new rule substantially weakens polices on coal-fired electricity plants.
On Monday, by coincidence, two nationwide general public well being teams ― the American Lung Affiliation and the American Public Wellness Affiliation ― sued the EPA in federal court docket, alleging the new rule violates the Clear Air Act by allowing for for much more unsafe pollution than the rule it replaced. 
Likewise, Wheeler stated the EPA would finalize a proposal for new gas financial state criteria by the stop of the summer season, billing the policy alter as an additional case in point of the Trump administration’s stewardship. However the first regulatory improve, unveiled past summer months, threatens to make new autos bought in the United States far much less gas effective.
The White Property is also at present locked in a legal battle with California regulators, who are permitted to set more robust specifications less than the Clean up Air Act. The extended combat is rocking the vehicle market, which mainly opposes the Trump administration’s proposal. Rather, the Trump administration’s new policies seem very likely only to gain oil organizations that quietly lobbied for the rule alter. 
Neumayr explained on the contact that the deregulatory sweep demonstrated a “balanced approach.”
“The former administration pursued a amount of overreaching, expensive restrictions that set careers at risk,” she reported. “Under President Trump’s leadership, the United States carries on to develop our overall economy and careers.” 
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THIS is WHY building permits are NECESSARY.  THIS is WHY you cannot just build whatever you feel like, like a six year old let loose with a Tonka truck.
We Build the Wall land owners DID NOT finish their application process, did not wait to receive a permit, and began building ANYWAY.
Now because We Build the Wall land owners were oblivious to what precautions to take BECAUSE THEY REFUSED to do the permit application's required 'environmental assessment', they inadvertently SPREAD AIR-BORN POLLUTION TO SURROUNDING LAND BY CARELESSLY BULLDOZING CONTAMINATED SOIL (i.e. releasing toxins into surrounding water & soil).
We Build the Wall rushed completion in secrecy to avoid environmental groups publicly protesting their build--hence why they intentionally did not complete the environmental assessment nor did they wait for an actual legal permit to build.
They should be LEGALLY REQUIRED TO PAY FOR POLLUTION CLEAN-UP and FINED FOR WHATEVER POLLUTION IS IMPOSSIBLE TO REVERSE.   Period.
We Build the Wall land owners complain up-and-down ABOUT THEIR RIGHTS as land owners.  YET they don't seem to have ANY PROBLEM with POLLUTING LAND THEY DO NOT OWN.
"IBWC’s management of rivers entails stewardship of the larger environment. But the potential environmental ramifications of the new wall remain unclear. With We Build the Wall failing to complete an environmental assessment, scientists and policymakers can only estimate the potential damage to the area from mudslides, erosion, and air and water pollution caused by the displacement of contaminated soil.
Furey, the foreman, was quick to point out how close the new wall is to the Rio Grande. What he ignored are the risks associated with a massive build directly uphill from the American Dam, which diverts drinking and irrigation water to Mexico and West Texas farmland. According to the World Wildlife Fund, the Rio Grande is highly endangered. It suffers from over-extraction of water, pollution, and high usage. To further complicate things, the remains of the ASARCO smelter, an EPA-declared Superfund site, sit a stone’s throw from the new wall.
ASARCO processed lead, zinc, silver, and copper from 1887 through 1999 in El Paso. Sulfur dioxide and heavy metals billowed out of the company’s giant smokestacks, with lead and arsenic contaminating soil and groundwater throughout the area. At one point, the Centers for Disease Control found that more than half of the children living within a mile of the smelter had blood lead levels dangerously higher than the acceptable limit. The American Eagle Brick Company, site of the wall, sits less than a third of a mile from ASARCO’s former plant.
In 2007, the Environmental Protection Agency named the American Dam site a spot of high contamination. A 2015 study demonstrated that the force of demolishing the ASARCO smokestacks enlarged the contaminated area, and found higher levels of lead in 2015 than had been recorded in 1993 and 2001. These findings suggest that bulldozing contaminated dirt releases toxins into the air and water.
Now, thanks to We Build the Wall’s construction work, tons of dirt from the contamination zone have been bulldozed. Environmental experts agree that the dirt will make its way into the Rio Grande, although it is too early to fully assess hazardous effects. Without an environmental impact assessment, one El Paso-based hydrologist told The Intercept, the long-term repercussions are 'anyone’s guess.'"
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Human Caused Disasters
During a tutorial with Jill she asked where most of my paintings where based and I told her that I am from a small village next to Rivington which last year was set on fire during a very hot and dry summer. A fire was burning for weeks through the dry grass and peat and emergency services were struggling to contain it. Fire services from all over the country were brought in as was the national guard to drop water on it from helicopters, that fire was set by a man in the field who was later prosecuted, it was while that fire was being tackled that somebody set another fire at the other side of Rivington; these two fires joined together spanning 7 miles in all directions and the habitat was destroyed and the wildlife living there. This part of Rivington won’t recover for 10 years minimum and while researching this tragedy so close to where I grew up I started to look at other human caused disasters that have changed a landscape and this is when i came up with these postcards.
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These are the two postcards I made for the fire on winter hill in Rivington, I wanted to hike up there and take pictures of the aftermath but unfortunately had to have ankle surgery and couldn’t so these images were found on the web and then I brought them into photoshop and edited them so that they looked ironically picturesque and like an actual post card.
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The Seveso disaster
In July 1976 an explosion at a chemical manufacturing plant north of Milan, Italy released tetrachlorodibenzo-para-dioxin into the atmosphere. The gas severely affecting the neighbouring town of Seveso. `shortly after 3,300 animals died and and many more were killed to stop the spread of contamination into the food chain, Around 500 people were found to have skin lesions and children were hospitalised with skin inflammation.
There are pictures of fields filled with the dead animals but I chose not to use these pictures, while I wanted these postcards to be shocking in order to deliver a message I didn’t want them to be too distressing.
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Love Canal is a neighborhood in Niagara Falls named after a large ditch that was dug in the 1890s for hydroelectric power. The ditch was abandoned before it actually generated any power and went mostly unused for decades, except for swimming by local residents. In the 1920s Niagara Falls began dumping urban waste into Love Canal, and in the 1940s the U.S. Army dumped waste from World War II there, including waste from the frantic effort to build a nuclear bomb. Hooker Chemical purchased the land in 1942 and lined it with clay. Then, the company put into Love Canal an estimated 21,000 tons of hazardous chemical waste, including the carcinogens benzene, dioxin, and PCBs in large metal barrels and covered them with more clay. In 1953, Hooker sold the land to the Niagara Falls school board for $1, and included a clause in the sales contract that both described the land use (filled with chemical waste) and absolved them from any future damage claims from the buried waste. The school board promptly built a public school on the site and sold the surrounding land for a housing project that built 200 or so homes along the canal banks and another 1,000 in the neighborhood. During construction, the canal’s clay cap and walls were breached, damaging some of the metal barrels.
Eventually, the chemical waste seeped into people’s basements, and the metal barrels worked their way to the surface. Trees and gardens began to die; bicycle tires and the rubber soles of children’s shoes disintegrated in noxious puddles. From the 1950s to the late 1970s, residents repeatedly complained of strange odors and substances that surfaced in their yards. City officials investigated the area, but did not act to solve the problem. Local residents allegedly experienced major health problems including high rates of miscarriages, birth defects, and chromosome damage, but studies by the New York State Health Department disputed that. Finally, in 1978 President Carter declared a state of emergency at Love Canal, making it the first human-caused environmental problem to be designated that way. The Love Canal incident became a symbol of improperly stored chemical waste. Clean up of Love Canal, which was funded by Superfund and completely finished in 2004, involved removing contaminated soil, installing drainage pipes to capture contaminated groundwater for treatment, and covering it with clay and plastic. In 1995, Occidental Chemical (the modern name for Hooker Chemical) paid $102 million to Superfund for cleanup and $27 million to Federal Emergency Management Association for the relocation of more than 1,000 families. New York State paid $98 million to EPA and the US government paid $8 million for pollution by the Army. The total clean up cost was estimated to be $275 million.
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Gulf of Mexico dead zone
This is one of the infamous aquatic regions that has arose due to human interference in the environment. Considered one of the largest dead zones in the world. off the coast of America in the gulf of Mexico is a spot that has had so much phosphorus and nitrogen dumped in it from the Mississippi river that no fish or plant life can survive it, often hundreds of fish are found floating dead on top.
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British Petroleum oil spill
Whilst we’re in Mexico I couldn’t help but include a disaster that happened fairly recently the BP oil spill off the coast of Mexico in 2010 In April 20, 2010, there was an explosion and sinking of a of the deepwater horizon oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The oil rig was leased and controlled by BP (British Petroleum) and was regarded the most prominent accidental marine oil spill in the petroleum industry history. Eleven employees died as a result of the explosion. The explosion also released about 60 million barrels of mixed-grade oil from the disconnected well, which went on for more than four months. Over 34,000 birds (including egrets and blue heron), hundreds of sea turtles, about 72 dolphins and other marine vertebrates and invertebrates were poisoned, suffocated and died in the floating oil.
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Bhopal
This case reads like it is straight out of a horror novel.In December 3, 1984, a Union Carbide India Limited pesticide plant in Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh, India, accidentally released a deadly chemical fog, which killed more than 5,000 people. They were victims of fatal poisoning by an isocyanate (pesticide) gas. More than 50,000 people went through treatment due to exposure to the gas and more than 500,000 people were exposed to the gas which causes the eyes and throat to swell up. It is claimed that the gas leak has killed an additional 20,000 people since and the rate of miscarriage has gone up by 300%, When the women of Bhopal went to the hospitals for help they were beaten and chased away. Union Carbide who owned the plant only Payed out £1000 compensation to each family and later sold the company who now refuse to pay out any more or take responsibility. It is regarded the worst industrial chemical disaster ever. This is possibly the worst disaster researched and it angers me that nobody seems to even know about it, It was in fact covered up by Indian press.
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Guiyu 
China is considered as the area which might be the biggest electronic waste site on the planet. The dumping of obsolete electronics in the area is extraordinarily large, which has resulted in high toxicity levels of heavy metals and chemicals in the region’s soils and water systems. Consequently, about 88% of the children in the province suffer from lead poisoning and there is higher than normal rates of miscarriages.  The province is thus labeled as the world’s “electronic graveyard”.
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Guinsaugon landslide
In February 2006, an enormous avalanche of rock, soil and debris poured into a populated valley of Southern Leyte Province in the Philippines after a week’s long heavy rain and minor earthquake. The instant outcome was the burying of the mountain village of Guinsaugon in the town of Saint Bernard. The incidence killed thousands of people including 250 children who were attending elementary school at the time. More than 1500 persons are still missing to this day. The disaster is said to be an outcome of nonstop logging and unregulated mining around and within the mountainside forest surrounding the valley.
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Help Get Marius Out of Carswell
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The campaign to Fight Toxic Prisons will be hosting its second annual national convergence this Summer! Last year’s convergence gathered activists and revolutionaries from across the country to explore the intersections of the environmental movement and the struggle to end mass incarceration. We also took our voices to the streets of DC, together with former prisoners and banners declaring support for those yet to win their freedom, we blocked the entrance to the Bureau of Prisons as well as the major intersection between the FBI and the Department of Justice!
This year’s convergence is taking place from June 2nd through 5th in the Denton/Ft. Worth region of North Texas. Registration is now open, sign up today by clicking here! It’s free to register, we ask only for a sliding scale donation. 
One reason we are excited to bring the 2017 FTP convergence to North Texas is the launch of the Close Carswell Campaign.  Those who focus attention on support for political prisoners may know of the infamous Carswell federal prison, located in Ft. Worth, Texas. The facility houses over 1,500 prisoners who allegedly have special health-related needs. Carswell is surrounded by toxic military Superfund sites from the Air Force base where it is co-located.
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Trump’s EPA Chief Aided Polluters For Years. Now Suddenly He Says The Mess Is A Priority
WASHINGTON If you listen to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt, the biggest environmental problem facing the United States isnt climate change (he doesnt think thats real, anyway), or lead-tainted drinking water or brain-damaging pesticides. Its that Barack Obama didnt clean up the more than 1,300 most contaminated and hazardous sites across the country.
A Fox News headline earlier this month declared that Pruitt was here to clean up the Obama administrations toxic mess. The former Oklahoma attorney general would have the American people believe that what the Superfund program really needs isnt funding, its the right attitude.
Its not a matter of money, Pruitt told Fox News. Its a matter of leadership and attitude and management.
Pruitt has been fixated on the EPAs Superfund, which is responsible for cleaning up highly contaminated sites, since taking over as agency chief in February. Hes called it absolutely essential and has repeatedly stressed that its part of EPAs core mission. During an April visit to a lead- and arsenic-laden Superfund site in East Chicago, Indiana, Pruitt said he went there because its important that we restore confidence to people in this community that were going to get it right going forward. And he has blamed poor leadership and poor focus on the part of the Obama administration for there being more Superfund sites today than when Obama took office.
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EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt speaks to the media after meeting residents at the West Calumet Housing Complex in East Chicago, Indiana, on April 19. Nearly all the residents were ordered to move because of high lead levels. It is now an EPA Superfund site.
Superfund is an important part of EPAs work, but Pruitts position fails to account for the history of the program. And every decision hes made about it so far suggests hes not serious about making it better. While he initially vowed to protect Superfund dollars, the 2018 budget the Trump administration released this month would slash EPAs overall funding by 31.4 percent to its lowest level in four decades and cut Superfund from $1.09 billion to $762 million.
The administration argues that it can do more with less that the EPA will identify efficiencies in administrative costs and optimize its use of settlements with polluters. The budget will also provide the agency with an opportunity to identify what barriers have been preventing sites from returning to communities and design solutions to overcome those barriers, the White House wrote in its justification for slashing Superfund.
Pruitt celebrated the budget proposal, saying in a statement that it respects the American taxpayer and supports EPAs highest priorities.
But Superfund experts say Pruitt doesnt seem to understand the basics of the program, which is designed to deal with expensive, complicated contamination cleanups that often have no responsible party and are not being handled at the state or local level.
A cut to the program literally means longer exposure and preventing economic recovery for communities, former EPA official Mathy Stanislaus told HuffPost. The response should be fact-based. Tell me how the facts support cutting funding to a program that already has a backlog of sites? Stanislaus oversaw Superfund as part of the EPAs Office of Land and Emergency Management under Obama.
I dont see how this program maintains its viability in any great way with these kinds of proposed cuts. Christine Todd Whitman, EPA administrator under President George W. Bush
Christine Todd Whitman, who served as EPA administrator under President George W. Bush, said Superfund is yet another issue on which the Trump administrations words and actions dont match up.
I dont see how this program maintains its viability in any great way with these kinds of proposed cuts, Whitman told HuffPost during a press call last week that included former leaders of several federal agencies. And it just doesnt make sense when they are talking about trying to address this problem.
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Former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman says the proposed cuts to EPA don't make sense if the Trump administration is truly committed to cleaning up polluted sites.
Established in 1980 in response to several environmental disasters, Superfund formally the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act is responsible for addressing areas contaminated with lead, radiation, mercury and other toxic pollutants, often left behind by industrial operations. The law authorized the federal government to force parties responsible for contamination to pay for cleanup costs and created a tax on the petroleum and chemical industries, two heavy polluters, to be pooled and used to clean up sites where a responsible party could not be found, called orphan sites. Areas requiring long-term remediation are put on the National Priorities List(NPL), but they often take years or even decades to clean up.
In many ways, Pruitts obsession with Superfund makes sense. As of 2015, 53 million Americans 17 percent of the population lived within three miles of a Superfund site.And the large number of toxic sites that remain on the NPL is something Pruitt has realized he can pin on past administrations for failing to address.
Lets look and think what the past administration achieved, Pruitt said during a visit to a Pennsylvania coal mine last month, noting that there are still 1,322 sites. Some of those have been on the list for 30 to 40 years.
Its true that the number of NPL sites increased during Obamas two terms, from about 1,260 at the end of fiscal year 2008. But for Pruitt to point his finger at Obama shows the EPA administrators willingness to ignore the Superfund listing process and the extent of contamination in many areas, as well as the challenge he now faces as head of the agency.
The number of sites proposed for and listed on the NPL simply reflects that those areas have been found to pose a risk to human or environmental health, and it has nothing to do with management, Stanislaus told HuffPost.
Superfunds problems have almost everything to do with resources, which have all but vanished over the last two decades. In 1995, Congress allowed the so-called polluter pays tax which generated billions of dollars to fund orphan cleanups to expire. The trust fund dried up several years later, with cleanup costs now falling largely on taxpayers via federal budget allocations. As money for cleanups has shriveled, fewer sites have been remediated.
From 1999 to 2013, federal appropriations to Superfund declined from about $2 billion to $1.1 billion per year, according to a 2010 Government Accountability Office report. In 1999, the program completed 85 site cleanups, compared with just eight in 2014.
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The Berkeley Pit is one of the largest Superfund sites. It is a mile-long toxic lake of heavy metals and contaminated water from old copper mine shafts in Butte, Montana.
Over the years, several Democratic legislators have pushed for reinstating the Superfund tax, a move supported by the Obama administration, but the efforts failed.
Whitman fears the program wont be able to function with additional cuts to staff and enforcement. She said enforcement is critical to get polluters to pay up.
But Pruitt, a longtime ally of the fossil fuel industry who sued the agency he now runs more than a dozen times as Oklahomas attorney general, insists Superfund will become self-sustaining under his watch. The great thing about this is we have private funding. There are people out there responsible for these sites to clean up, he told Fox News. The moneys are there to do so.
Stanislaus said there are some sites that provide the economic incentive for private interests to invest in redevelopment. But to say that theres this hidden pot of gold out there that can be brought to bear on a site, I dont know what fantasy island that comes from, frankly.
Nor does it seem likely that the Trump administration, which is stacked with industry lobbyists and fossil fuel allies, is going to be cracking down on polluters and forcing them to pay for cleanups. Ken Cook, president of the nonprofit Environmental Working Group, said in a statement that theres not a snowballs chance in hell that polluters will be forced to pay for cleaning up their toxic messes that endanger Americans health under Trump and Pruitts watch.
Those appointed to help Pruitt in his Superfund efforts so far have been less than inspiring choices. This month, Trump nominated Susan Bodine, chief counsel for the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, whomThe Intercept described as a lobbyist for Superfund polluters, to serve as assistant administrator of EPAs Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. And Pruitt has chosen Albert Kelly, a longtime banker with no apparent experience in environmental policy, to lead a new Superfund task force.
Thetask force, which was announced last week,will provide recommendations to the agency on how to streamline and improve the Superfund program within 30 days. In a statement accompanying his announcement, Pruitt said he is confident that, with a renewed sense of urgency, leadership and fresh ideas, the Superfund program can reach its full potential of returning formerly contaminated sites to communities for their beneficial use.
Wilma Subra, a Louisiana-based chemist and Superfund expert, told HuffPost that its not clear what Pruitt means when he says he will reprioritize Superfund cleanups or if he will change the general understanding of what it takes for a site to be considered clean and thus eligible to be removed from the list. Until thats more clear, Subra said, Pruitts claims are just a talking point.
Is it going to be a little small slice of [Superfund] hes going to prioritize, and the rest is going to sit there and languish? she asked.
Stanislaus shares her concern that Pruitt may shortcut cleanups in order to cut costs. Doing so, Stanislaus said, would be shortsighted and come with health and economic consequences. Likewise, research has shown that investing in a Superfund site can increase property values and fuel job growth. Not to mention the positive effects that cleanup efforts have on human health.
Andrew Rosenburg, director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said Pruitts Superfund talk is smoke and mirrors.
To simply wave your hands and say Were going to clean it up at the same time as youre reducing the resources, both people and money available to do it, is frankly nonsense, Rosenburg told HuffPost.
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EPA Completes Assessment of National Priorities Sites Following Hurricane Laura Region 06 DALLAS – (Sept. 3, 2020) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has completed inspection of all National Priorities List Superfund sites in counties and parishes with federal disaster declarations following Hurricane Laura. Published September 03, 2020 at 09:30AM Read more
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ATV Accident Lawyer Woods Cross Utah
Woods Cross is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,761 as of the 2010 census, with an estimated population in 2018 of 11,328. Woods Cross is named after Daniel Wood, an early settler in the Utah Territory. Wood (October 16, 1800 – April 15, 1892) was a Mormon pioneer and a settler of the western United States. He was the son of Henry Wood and Elizabeth Demelt. He was born in Dutchess County, New York and died in Woods Cross. Woods Cross is in southeastern Davis County, bordered to the north by West Bountiful, to the east by Bountiful, and to the south by the City of North Salt Lake. According to the United States Census Bureau, Woods Cross has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10.0 km2), all of it land. As of 2009 estimates, there were 8,888 people, 1,936 households, and 1,589 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,783.2 people per square mile (688.4/km²). There were 2,021 housing units at an average density of 561.4 per square mile (216.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 93.75% White, 0.44% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.26% Pacific Islander, 2.55% from other races, and 2.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.72% of the population.
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There were 1,936 households out of which 52.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.4% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.9% were non-families. 13.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.32 and the average family size was 3.69. In the city, the population was spread out with 36.0% under the age of 18, 13.0% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 15.7% from 45 to 64, and 3.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.8 males. The median income for a household in the city was $46,271, and the median income for a family was $51,778. Males had a median income of $35,958 versus $22,917 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,508. About 4.0% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those ages 65 or over Woods Cross is part of Davis School District. The city has one high school, Woods Cross High School, and two elementary schools, Odyssey Elementary and Woods Cross Elementary. Woods Cross, Utah, might best be described as industrial suburbia. Oil pipelines burrow beneath tidy streets, and a refinery tower’s flare is visible from a booth at the Paradise Bakery and Cafe. There’s a paint manufacturer, an interstate highway, freight trains hauling asphalt and crude, and some of the nation’s worst winter air quality. The solidly middle-class residents of Woods Cross may not enjoy these aspects of their lives, but they generally tolerate them.
After all, they chose to live here. Now, there’s a new problem: A decades-old chemical leak from a drycleaner has contaminated the city’s drinking water aquifer with a plume of the industrial solvent tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to declare it a Superfund site, one of three in the area. At high-enough concentrations, PCE can be carcinogenic and cause kidney, liver and immune and nervous system problems. However, the PCE-tainted water is tapped for only a couple months out of the year, and even then at concentrations too low to be considered harmful. That’s why the federal agency won’t help pay for a $4 million filtration system to help fix the problem. Yet the townsfolk, despite their tolerance of other environmental hazards, have enthusiastically agreed to pay for the system, expected to be functioning by next summer. The situation illustrates how the residents weigh the PCE problem against other dangers, and exhibits a key difference between how regulators and most citizens respond to environmental risk. The health risks may be very low, but if you knew your water contained even a smidgeon of poison, would you want to drink and bathe in it? This dense Salt Lake City suburb found out about the PCE in the late 1980s, when the chemical appeared in two municipal water wells, which were immediately turned off. In 2007, after years of study, the EPA finally put the plume on its Superfund list. (PCE pollution is responsible for nearly a third of all listings.) The agency dug up enough contaminated dirt to fill about 20 pickup trucks and began debating how to clean up the plume. The owners of the drycleaner, which is still operating, can’t cover the costs. Most of the year, the town’s water comes from uncontaminated sources. But to meet higher summer demand, it also turns on a contaminated well, sending low concentrations of PCE through showerheads and into drinking glasses. Even then, the concentrations of PCE remain below the agency’s legal limit of 5 parts per billion, and the tap water meets Safe Drinking Water Act standards. That explains the EPA’s seeming lack of concern. “EPA comes in when there is a serious and dangerous immediate threat to health,” says Peggy Linn, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator for the Superfund site. Woods Cross faced a genuine environmental threat: One of the refineries exploded — twice — breaking windows and cracking nearby foundations.
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“People were furious,” says Mayor Kent Parry, but the outrage subsided as residents figured out there wasn’t much the city could do. After all, the refinery had been there long before the subdivisions that surround it, and people knew about that risk when they moved in. But as a newer, involuntary risk, the PCE plume is different, says Bob Benson, an EPA toxicologist. EPA officials tasked with deciding whether to build an expensive treatment system would likely consider things like maximum contaminant levels, neurological damage threshold, and concentrations at which cancer risk becomes one in a million. But ultimately, the decision here may have come down to the fact that a simple solution actually exists — unlike with so many other hazards. “It is something over which we have control,” Parry says. “We spend the money, we build the treatment facility, and the PCE is gone.”
All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Safety
All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are off-road vehicles often used for recreation. In most states, it’s legal for older kids and teens to ride them, even without a driver’s license. But with the thrills come major safety risks. ATVs can be unstable and hard to control, particularly at high speeds. Rollovers and collisions happen often, and some of these are fatal. Injuries from riding ATVs are common too and can mean an emergency-room visit. As a result, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) discourages kids and teens ages 16 or younger from driving or riding on ATVs. If you decide to let your child ride an ATV, make sure he or she follows safety precautions and understands how to safely operate the vehicle. While this helps to reduce the risk of injury or death, the only way to truly keep kids safe is to prevent them from riding ATVs. ATVs are motorized vehicles that are meant to be used off-road or on dirt roads, not on paved roads or highways. They usually have four large balloon-style tires, with a seat in the middle that a rider straddles while steering by the handlebars. There are still some three-wheeler ATVs around, but manufacturers stopped making them in 1988 due to concerns about stability and safety. Weighing more than 600 pounds, ATVs have large, powerful engines that allow them to reach speeds of 65 mph or more. They have a high center of gravity and no roll bars, safety cages, or seatbelts, meaning they can tip easily, throw riders and passengers off, or even roll over on top of riders. This can cause serious injury or death, usually because of head injuries. Other common injuries include cuts, scrapes, broken collarbones, and broken arms and legs.
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There are no federal regulations or age limits when it comes to riding ATVs. Instead, each state has its own guidelines and laws. Some states require ATV riders to be 16 years old and have a safety certificate. Other states allow kids as young as 10 to ride ATVs as long as they’re supervised by an adult with a valid driver’s license. The AAP does not recommend ATV use for children and teens 16 or younger. ATVs can be too large for smaller kids to handle safely, even if it’s legal for them to be riding them. Safely operating an ATV requires the driver to make quick decisions, such as speeding up, slowing down, or shifting his or her weight in response to changes in the environment. Kids under 16 are unlikely to be able to make these choices or have the skills to carry them out. If your child does ride an ATV, make sure you understand and follow the rules of your state. Visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) online for this information. This applies even if your child won’t be steering the ATV. Many states don’t allow passengers to ride unless the ATV is specifically designed to carry two people.
ATV Guidelines
Kids age 16 and younger should not ride an ATV. Anyone who does ride an ATV should follow these tips before and during riding: • Take a safety training course to learn how to operate an ATV safely, and only ride an ATV that’s right for your size and age. Visit the ATV Safety Institute’s website for information. • Always wear an approved helmet and eye protection. In many states, helmets and eye protection are required by law, particularly for kids. • Wear long pants, long sleeves, gloves, and over-the-ankle boots to help prevent scrapes and cuts. • Only ride during daylight hours. • Always ride at a safe speed on a designated ATV trail. • Know basic first aid to treat minor injuries, and be able to get help in an emergency. It’s important to never do the following while riding an ATV: • Never ride on a three-wheel ATV. • Never ride while drinking alcohol or using drugs. • Never ride on paved surfaces or public roads (except to cross them). • Never exceed the number of passengers recommended by the manufacturer. • Never let kids and teens drive an ATV with a passenger. ATV riding will always be risky and because they’re fun, many kids and teens will want to try them. There are no guarantees that kids won’t get hurt, even with precautions and protective laws in place. But by making sure that riders follow safety rules and know how to use ATVs safely, parents can do their best to help protect them from being injured.
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ATV Accident Lawyer Woods Cross Utah
Woods Cross is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,761 as of the 2010 census, with an estimated population in 2018 of 11,328. Woods Cross is named after Daniel Wood, an early settler in the Utah Territory. Wood (October 16, 1800 – April 15, 1892) was a Mormon pioneer and a settler of the western United States. He was the son of Henry Wood and Elizabeth Demelt. He was born in Dutchess County, New York and died in Woods Cross. Woods Cross is in southeastern Davis County, bordered to the north by West Bountiful, to the east by Bountiful, and to the south by the City of North Salt Lake. According to the United States Census Bureau, Woods Cross has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10.0 km2), all of it land. As of 2009 estimates, there were 8,888 people, 1,936 households, and 1,589 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,783.2 people per square mile (688.4/km²). There were 2,021 housing units at an average density of 561.4 per square mile (216.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 93.75% White, 0.44% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.26% Pacific Islander, 2.55% from other races, and 2.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.72% of the population.
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There were 1,936 households out of which 52.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.4% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.9% were non-families. 13.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.32 and the average family size was 3.69. In the city, the population was spread out with 36.0% under the age of 18, 13.0% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 15.7% from 45 to 64, and 3.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.8 males. The median income for a household in the city was $46,271, and the median income for a family was $51,778. Males had a median income of $35,958 versus $22,917 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,508. About 4.0% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those ages 65 or over Woods Cross is part of Davis School District. The city has one high school, Woods Cross High School, and two elementary schools, Odyssey Elementary and Woods Cross Elementary. Woods Cross, Utah, might best be described as industrial suburbia. Oil pipelines burrow beneath tidy streets, and a refinery tower’s flare is visible from a booth at the Paradise Bakery and Cafe. There’s a paint manufacturer, an interstate highway, freight trains hauling asphalt and crude, and some of the nation’s worst winter air quality. The solidly middle-class residents of Woods Cross may not enjoy these aspects of their lives, but they generally tolerate them.
After all, they chose to live here. Now, there’s a new problem: A decades-old chemical leak from a drycleaner has contaminated the city’s drinking water aquifer with a plume of the industrial solvent tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to declare it a Superfund site, one of three in the area. At high-enough concentrations, PCE can be carcinogenic and cause kidney, liver and immune and nervous system problems. However, the PCE-tainted water is tapped for only a couple months out of the year, and even then at concentrations too low to be considered harmful. That’s why the federal agency won’t help pay for a $4 million filtration system to help fix the problem. Yet the townsfolk, despite their tolerance of other environmental hazards, have enthusiastically agreed to pay for the system, expected to be functioning by next summer. The situation illustrates how the residents weigh the PCE problem against other dangers, and exhibits a key difference between how regulators and most citizens respond to environmental risk. The health risks may be very low, but if you knew your water contained even a smidgeon of poison, would you want to drink and bathe in it? This dense Salt Lake City suburb found out about the PCE in the late 1980s, when the chemical appeared in two municipal water wells, which were immediately turned off. In 2007, after years of study, the EPA finally put the plume on its Superfund list. (PCE pollution is responsible for nearly a third of all listings.) The agency dug up enough contaminated dirt to fill about 20 pickup trucks and began debating how to clean up the plume. The owners of the drycleaner, which is still operating, can’t cover the costs. Most of the year, the town’s water comes from uncontaminated sources. But to meet higher summer demand, it also turns on a contaminated well, sending low concentrations of PCE through showerheads and into drinking glasses. Even then, the concentrations of PCE remain below the agency’s legal limit of 5 parts per billion, and the tap water meets Safe Drinking Water Act standards. That explains the EPA’s seeming lack of concern. “EPA comes in when there is a serious and dangerous immediate threat to health,” says Peggy Linn, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator for the Superfund site. Woods Cross faced a genuine environmental threat: One of the refineries exploded — twice — breaking windows and cracking nearby foundations.
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“People were furious,” says Mayor Kent Parry, but the outrage subsided as residents figured out there wasn’t much the city could do. After all, the refinery had been there long before the subdivisions that surround it, and people knew about that risk when they moved in. But as a newer, involuntary risk, the PCE plume is different, says Bob Benson, an EPA toxicologist. EPA officials tasked with deciding whether to build an expensive treatment system would likely consider things like maximum contaminant levels, neurological damage threshold, and concentrations at which cancer risk becomes one in a million. But ultimately, the decision here may have come down to the fact that a simple solution actually exists — unlike with so many other hazards. “It is something over which we have control,” Parry says. “We spend the money, we build the treatment facility, and the PCE is gone.”
All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Safety
All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are off-road vehicles often used for recreation. In most states, it’s legal for older kids and teens to ride them, even without a driver’s license. But with the thrills come major safety risks. ATVs can be unstable and hard to control, particularly at high speeds. Rollovers and collisions happen often, and some of these are fatal. Injuries from riding ATVs are common too and can mean an emergency-room visit. As a result, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) discourages kids and teens ages 16 or younger from driving or riding on ATVs. If you decide to let your child ride an ATV, make sure he or she follows safety precautions and understands how to safely operate the vehicle. While this helps to reduce the risk of injury or death, the only way to truly keep kids safe is to prevent them from riding ATVs. ATVs are motorized vehicles that are meant to be used off-road or on dirt roads, not on paved roads or highways. They usually have four large balloon-style tires, with a seat in the middle that a rider straddles while steering by the handlebars. There are still some three-wheeler ATVs around, but manufacturers stopped making them in 1988 due to concerns about stability and safety. Weighing more than 600 pounds, ATVs have large, powerful engines that allow them to reach speeds of 65 mph or more. They have a high center of gravity and no roll bars, safety cages, or seatbelts, meaning they can tip easily, throw riders and passengers off, or even roll over on top of riders. This can cause serious injury or death, usually because of head injuries. Other common injuries include cuts, scrapes, broken collarbones, and broken arms and legs.
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There are no federal regulations or age limits when it comes to riding ATVs. Instead, each state has its own guidelines and laws. Some states require ATV riders to be 16 years old and have a safety certificate. Other states allow kids as young as 10 to ride ATVs as long as they’re supervised by an adult with a valid driver’s license. The AAP does not recommend ATV use for children and teens 16 or younger. ATVs can be too large for smaller kids to handle safely, even if it’s legal for them to be riding them. Safely operating an ATV requires the driver to make quick decisions, such as speeding up, slowing down, or shifting his or her weight in response to changes in the environment. Kids under 16 are unlikely to be able to make these choices or have the skills to carry them out. If your child does ride an ATV, make sure you understand and follow the rules of your state. Visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) online for this information. This applies even if your child won’t be steering the ATV. Many states don’t allow passengers to ride unless the ATV is specifically designed to carry two people.
ATV Guidelines
Kids age 16 and younger should not ride an ATV. Anyone who does ride an ATV should follow these tips before and during riding: • Take a safety training course to learn how to operate an ATV safely, and only ride an ATV that’s right for your size and age. Visit the ATV Safety Institute’s website for information. • Always wear an approved helmet and eye protection. In many states, helmets and eye protection are required by law, particularly for kids. • Wear long pants, long sleeves, gloves, and over-the-ankle boots to help prevent scrapes and cuts. • Only ride during daylight hours. • Always ride at a safe speed on a designated ATV trail. • Know basic first aid to treat minor injuries, and be able to get help in an emergency. It’s important to never do the following while riding an ATV: • Never ride on a three-wheel ATV. • Never ride while drinking alcohol or using drugs. • Never ride on paved surfaces or public roads (except to cross them). • Never exceed the number of passengers recommended by the manufacturer. • Never let kids and teens drive an ATV with a passenger. ATV riding will always be risky and because they’re fun, many kids and teens will want to try them. There are no guarantees that kids won’t get hurt, even with precautions and protective laws in place. But by making sure that riders follow safety rules and know how to use ATVs safely, parents can do their best to help protect them from being injured.
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Whether you use your ATV to hit the trails or get work done around the farm, these coverages will help keep you protected. • ATV protection: Blazing your own trail can come with the occasional bump in the road. But don’t get sidetracked by a setback! Our comprehensive and collision coverage helps protect against most accidental damage or loss to your ATV. • Liability Protection: Accidents happen. And, as an ATV owner, you could be held responsible. Our liability coverage helps protect you and anyone operating your four-wheeler with your permission, it can help you pay for property damage, first aid, medical and court costs so you can stay focused on your growing dreams. • Gear protection: Safety should come first when you hit the trails that are why we offer protection for your gear. Get up to $1,000 of safety apparel coverage for your helmet, boots and other gear and ride on worry-free. • Additional support: So, you’ve accidentally backed your four-wheeler into your car. ATV Insurance Cost On average, your ATV insurance can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars per year. The cost for ATV insurance varies per owner depending on a number of factors, including: • The state you live in • Your driving history • The make and model of your ATV • What you use it for • How much coverage you purchase Added Coverage, Extra Peace of Mind • Medical expense coverage: If you’re hurt while on your ATV, this will help pay for medical care to get you back to your old self. • Uninsured motorist coverage: This protects you if you or anyone riding your ATV is hurt in an accident that was caused by an uninsured vehicle or a hit-and-run driver. • Underinsured motorist coverage: This helps pay for the balance of an accident when another driver is at fault and doesn’t carry enough insurance.
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ATV Accident Lawyer Woods Cross Utah
Woods Cross is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,761 as of the 2010 census, with an estimated population in 2018 of 11,328. Woods Cross is named after Daniel Wood, an early settler in the Utah Territory. Wood (October 16, 1800 – April 15, 1892) was a Mormon pioneer and a settler of the western United States. He was the son of Henry Wood and Elizabeth Demelt. He was born in Dutchess County, New York and died in Woods Cross. Woods Cross is in southeastern Davis County, bordered to the north by West Bountiful, to the east by Bountiful, and to the south by the City of North Salt Lake. According to the United States Census Bureau, Woods Cross has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10.0 km2), all of it land. As of 2009 estimates, there were 8,888 people, 1,936 households, and 1,589 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,783.2 people per square mile (688.4/km²). There were 2,021 housing units at an average density of 561.4 per square mile (216.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 93.75% White, 0.44% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.26% Pacific Islander, 2.55% from other races, and 2.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.72% of the population.
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There were 1,936 households out of which 52.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.4% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.9% were non-families. 13.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.32 and the average family size was 3.69. In the city, the population was spread out with 36.0% under the age of 18, 13.0% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 15.7% from 45 to 64, and 3.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.8 males. The median income for a household in the city was $46,271, and the median income for a family was $51,778. Males had a median income of $35,958 versus $22,917 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,508. About 4.0% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those ages 65 or over Woods Cross is part of Davis School District. The city has one high school, Woods Cross High School, and two elementary schools, Odyssey Elementary and Woods Cross Elementary. Woods Cross, Utah, might best be described as industrial suburbia. Oil pipelines burrow beneath tidy streets, and a refinery tower’s flare is visible from a booth at the Paradise Bakery and Cafe. There’s a paint manufacturer, an interstate highway, freight trains hauling asphalt and crude, and some of the nation’s worst winter air quality. The solidly middle-class residents of Woods Cross may not enjoy these aspects of their lives, but they generally tolerate them.
After all, they chose to live here. Now, there’s a new problem: A decades-old chemical leak from a drycleaner has contaminated the city’s drinking water aquifer with a plume of the industrial solvent tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to declare it a Superfund site, one of three in the area. At high-enough concentrations, PCE can be carcinogenic and cause kidney, liver and immune and nervous system problems. However, the PCE-tainted water is tapped for only a couple months out of the year, and even then at concentrations too low to be considered harmful. That’s why the federal agency won’t help pay for a $4 million filtration system to help fix the problem. Yet the townsfolk, despite their tolerance of other environmental hazards, have enthusiastically agreed to pay for the system, expected to be functioning by next summer. The situation illustrates how the residents weigh the PCE problem against other dangers, and exhibits a key difference between how regulators and most citizens respond to environmental risk. The health risks may be very low, but if you knew your water contained even a smidgeon of poison, would you want to drink and bathe in it? This dense Salt Lake City suburb found out about the PCE in the late 1980s, when the chemical appeared in two municipal water wells, which were immediately turned off. In 2007, after years of study, the EPA finally put the plume on its Superfund list. (PCE pollution is responsible for nearly a third of all listings.) The agency dug up enough contaminated dirt to fill about 20 pickup trucks and began debating how to clean up the plume. The owners of the drycleaner, which is still operating, can’t cover the costs. Most of the year, the town’s water comes from uncontaminated sources. But to meet higher summer demand, it also turns on a contaminated well, sending low concentrations of PCE through showerheads and into drinking glasses. Even then, the concentrations of PCE remain below the agency’s legal limit of 5 parts per billion, and the tap water meets Safe Drinking Water Act standards. That explains the EPA’s seeming lack of concern. “EPA comes in when there is a serious and dangerous immediate threat to health,” says Peggy Linn, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator for the Superfund site. Woods Cross faced a genuine environmental threat: One of the refineries exploded — twice — breaking windows and cracking nearby foundations.
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“People were furious,” says Mayor Kent Parry, but the outrage subsided as residents figured out there wasn’t much the city could do. After all, the refinery had been there long before the subdivisions that surround it, and people knew about that risk when they moved in. But as a newer, involuntary risk, the PCE plume is different, says Bob Benson, an EPA toxicologist. EPA officials tasked with deciding whether to build an expensive treatment system would likely consider things like maximum contaminant levels, neurological damage threshold, and concentrations at which cancer risk becomes one in a million. But ultimately, the decision here may have come down to the fact that a simple solution actually exists — unlike with so many other hazards. “It is something over which we have control,” Parry says. “We spend the money, we build the treatment facility, and the PCE is gone.”
All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Safety
All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are off-road vehicles often used for recreation. In most states, it’s legal for older kids and teens to ride them, even without a driver’s license. But with the thrills come major safety risks. ATVs can be unstable and hard to control, particularly at high speeds. Rollovers and collisions happen often, and some of these are fatal. Injuries from riding ATVs are common too and can mean an emergency-room visit. As a result, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) discourages kids and teens ages 16 or younger from driving or riding on ATVs. If you decide to let your child ride an ATV, make sure he or she follows safety precautions and understands how to safely operate the vehicle. While this helps to reduce the risk of injury or death, the only way to truly keep kids safe is to prevent them from riding ATVs. ATVs are motorized vehicles that are meant to be used off-road or on dirt roads, not on paved roads or highways. They usually have four large balloon-style tires, with a seat in the middle that a rider straddles while steering by the handlebars. There are still some three-wheeler ATVs around, but manufacturers stopped making them in 1988 due to concerns about stability and safety. Weighing more than 600 pounds, ATVs have large, powerful engines that allow them to reach speeds of 65 mph or more. They have a high center of gravity and no roll bars, safety cages, or seatbelts, meaning they can tip easily, throw riders and passengers off, or even roll over on top of riders. This can cause serious injury or death, usually because of head injuries. Other common injuries include cuts, scrapes, broken collarbones, and broken arms and legs.
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There are no federal regulations or age limits when it comes to riding ATVs. Instead, each state has its own guidelines and laws. Some states require ATV riders to be 16 years old and have a safety certificate. Other states allow kids as young as 10 to ride ATVs as long as they’re supervised by an adult with a valid driver’s license. The AAP does not recommend ATV use for children and teens 16 or younger. ATVs can be too large for smaller kids to handle safely, even if it’s legal for them to be riding them. Safely operating an ATV requires the driver to make quick decisions, such as speeding up, slowing down, or shifting his or her weight in response to changes in the environment. Kids under 16 are unlikely to be able to make these choices or have the skills to carry them out. If your child does ride an ATV, make sure you understand and follow the rules of your state. Visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) online for this information. This applies even if your child won’t be steering the ATV. Many states don’t allow passengers to ride unless the ATV is specifically designed to carry two people.
ATV Guidelines
Kids age 16 and younger should not ride an ATV. Anyone who does ride an ATV should follow these tips before and during riding: • Take a safety training course to learn how to operate an ATV safely, and only ride an ATV that’s right for your size and age. Visit the ATV Safety Institute’s website for information. • Always wear an approved helmet and eye protection. In many states, helmets and eye protection are required by law, particularly for kids. • Wear long pants, long sleeves, gloves, and over-the-ankle boots to help prevent scrapes and cuts. • Only ride during daylight hours. • Always ride at a safe speed on a designated ATV trail. • Know basic first aid to treat minor injuries, and be able to get help in an emergency. It’s important to never do the following while riding an ATV: • Never ride on a three-wheel ATV. • Never ride while drinking alcohol or using drugs. • Never ride on paved surfaces or public roads (except to cross them). • Never exceed the number of passengers recommended by the manufacturer. • Never let kids and teens drive an ATV with a passenger. ATV riding will always be risky and because they’re fun, many kids and teens will want to try them. There are no guarantees that kids won’t get hurt, even with precautions and protective laws in place. But by making sure that riders follow safety rules and know how to use ATVs safely, parents can do their best to help protect them from being injured.
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Whether you use your ATV to hit the trails or get work done around the farm, these coverages will help keep you protected. • ATV protection: Blazing your own trail can come with the occasional bump in the road. But don’t get sidetracked by a setback! Our comprehensive and collision coverage helps protect against most accidental damage or loss to your ATV. • Liability Protection: Accidents happen. And, as an ATV owner, you could be held responsible. Our liability coverage helps protect you and anyone operating your four-wheeler with your permission, it can help you pay for property damage, first aid, medical and court costs so you can stay focused on your growing dreams. • Gear protection: Safety should come first when you hit the trails that are why we offer protection for your gear. Get up to $1,000 of safety apparel coverage for your helmet, boots and other gear and ride on worry-free. • Additional support: So, you’ve accidentally backed your four-wheeler into your car. ATV Insurance Cost On average, your ATV insurance can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars per year. The cost for ATV insurance varies per owner depending on a number of factors, including: • The state you live in • Your driving history • The make and model of your ATV • What you use it for • How much coverage you purchase Added Coverage, Extra Peace of Mind • Medical expense coverage: If you’re hurt while on your ATV, this will help pay for medical care to get you back to your old self. • Uninsured motorist coverage: This protects you if you or anyone riding your ATV is hurt in an accident that was caused by an uninsured vehicle or a hit-and-run driver. • Underinsured motorist coverage: This helps pay for the balance of an accident when another driver is at fault and doesn’t carry enough insurance.
Woods Cross ATV Injury Lawyer Free Consultation
When you’ve been injured in an ATV accident and need to recover for your personal injuries, please call Ascent Law LLC for your free consultation (801) 676-5506. We want to help you.
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ATV Accident Lawyer Woods Cross Utah
Woods Cross is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,761 as of the 2010 census, with an estimated population in 2018 of 11,328. Woods Cross is named after Daniel Wood, an early settler in the Utah Territory. Wood (October 16, 1800 – April 15, 1892) was a Mormon pioneer and a settler of the western United States. He was the son of Henry Wood and Elizabeth Demelt. He was born in Dutchess County, New York and died in Woods Cross. Woods Cross is in southeastern Davis County, bordered to the north by West Bountiful, to the east by Bountiful, and to the south by the City of North Salt Lake. According to the United States Census Bureau, Woods Cross has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10.0 km2), all of it land. As of 2009 estimates, there were 8,888 people, 1,936 households, and 1,589 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,783.2 people per square mile (688.4/km²). There were 2,021 housing units at an average density of 561.4 per square mile (216.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 93.75% White, 0.44% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.26% Pacific Islander, 2.55% from other races, and 2.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.72% of the population.
There were 1,936 households out of which 52.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.4% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.9% were non-families. 13.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.32 and the average family size was 3.69. In the city, the population was spread out with 36.0% under the age of 18, 13.0% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 15.7% from 45 to 64, and 3.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.8 males. The median income for a household in the city was $46,271, and the median income for a family was $51,778. Males had a median income of $35,958 versus $22,917 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,508. About 4.0% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those ages 65 or over Woods Cross is part of Davis School District. The city has one high school, Woods Cross High School, and two elementary schools, Odyssey Elementary and Woods Cross Elementary. Woods Cross, Utah, might best be described as industrial suburbia. Oil pipelines burrow beneath tidy streets, and a refinery tower’s flare is visible from a booth at the Paradise Bakery and Cafe. There’s a paint manufacturer, an interstate highway, freight trains hauling asphalt and crude, and some of the nation’s worst winter air quality. The solidly middle-class residents of Woods Cross may not enjoy these aspects of their lives, but they generally tolerate them.
After all, they chose to live here. Now, there’s a new problem: A decades-old chemical leak from a drycleaner has contaminated the city’s drinking water aquifer with a plume of the industrial solvent tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to declare it a Superfund site, one of three in the area. At high-enough concentrations, PCE can be carcinogenic and cause kidney, liver and immune and nervous system problems. However, the PCE-tainted water is tapped for only a couple months out of the year, and even then at concentrations too low to be considered harmful. That’s why the federal agency won’t help pay for a $4 million filtration system to help fix the problem. Yet the townsfolk, despite their tolerance of other environmental hazards, have enthusiastically agreed to pay for the system, expected to be functioning by next summer. The situation illustrates how the residents weigh the PCE problem against other dangers, and exhibits a key difference between how regulators and most citizens respond to environmental risk. The health risks may be very low, but if you knew your water contained even a smidgeon of poison, would you want to drink and bathe in it? This dense Salt Lake City suburb found out about the PCE in the late 1980s, when the chemical appeared in two municipal water wells, which were immediately turned off. In 2007, after years of study, the EPA finally put the plume on its Superfund list. (PCE pollution is responsible for nearly a third of all listings.) The agency dug up enough contaminated dirt to fill about 20 pickup trucks and began debating how to clean up the plume. The owners of the drycleaner, which is still operating, can’t cover the costs. Most of the year, the town’s water comes from uncontaminated sources. But to meet higher summer demand, it also turns on a contaminated well, sending low concentrations of PCE through showerheads and into drinking glasses. Even then, the concentrations of PCE remain below the agency’s legal limit of 5 parts per billion, and the tap water meets Safe Drinking Water Act standards. That explains the EPA’s seeming lack of concern. “EPA comes in when there is a serious and dangerous immediate threat to health,” says Peggy Linn, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator for the Superfund site. Woods Cross faced a genuine environmental threat: One of the refineries exploded — twice — breaking windows and cracking nearby foundations.
“People were furious,” says Mayor Kent Parry, but the outrage subsided as residents figured out there wasn’t much the city could do. After all, the refinery had been there long before the subdivisions that surround it, and people knew about that risk when they moved in. But as a newer, involuntary risk, the PCE plume is different, says Bob Benson, an EPA toxicologist. EPA officials tasked with deciding whether to build an expensive treatment system would likely consider things like maximum contaminant levels, neurological damage threshold, and concentrations at which cancer risk becomes one in a million. But ultimately, the decision here may have come down to the fact that a simple solution actually exists — unlike with so many other hazards. “It is something over which we have control,” Parry says. “We spend the money, we build the treatment facility, and the PCE is gone.”
All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Safety
All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are off-road vehicles often used for recreation. In most states, it’s legal for older kids and teens to ride them, even without a driver’s license. But with the thrills come major safety risks. ATVs can be unstable and hard to control, particularly at high speeds. Rollovers and collisions happen often, and some of these are fatal. Injuries from riding ATVs are common too and can mean an emergency-room visit. As a result, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) discourages kids and teens ages 16 or younger from driving or riding on ATVs. If you decide to let your child ride an ATV, make sure he or she follows safety precautions and understands how to safely operate the vehicle. While this helps to reduce the risk of injury or death, the only way to truly keep kids safe is to prevent them from riding ATVs. ATVs are motorized vehicles that are meant to be used off-road or on dirt roads, not on paved roads or highways. They usually have four large balloon-style tires, with a seat in the middle that a rider straddles while steering by the handlebars. There are still some three-wheeler ATVs around, but manufacturers stopped making them in 1988 due to concerns about stability and safety. Weighing more than 600 pounds, ATVs have large, powerful engines that allow them to reach speeds of 65 mph or more. They have a high center of gravity and no roll bars, safety cages, or seatbelts, meaning they can tip easily, throw riders and passengers off, or even roll over on top of riders. This can cause serious injury or death, usually because of head injuries. Other common injuries include cuts, scrapes, broken collarbones, and broken arms and legs.
There are no federal regulations or age limits when it comes to riding ATVs. Instead, each state has its own guidelines and laws. Some states require ATV riders to be 16 years old and have a safety certificate. Other states allow kids as young as 10 to ride ATVs as long as they’re supervised by an adult with a valid driver’s license. The AAP does not recommend ATV use for children and teens 16 or younger. ATVs can be too large for smaller kids to handle safely, even if it’s legal for them to be riding them. Safely operating an ATV requires the driver to make quick decisions, such as speeding up, slowing down, or shifting his or her weight in response to changes in the environment. Kids under 16 are unlikely to be able to make these choices or have the skills to carry them out. If your child does ride an ATV, make sure you understand and follow the rules of your state. Visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) online for this information. This applies even if your child won’t be steering the ATV. Many states don’t allow passengers to ride unless the ATV is specifically designed to carry two people.
ATV Guidelines
Kids age 16 and younger should not ride an ATV. Anyone who does ride an ATV should follow these tips before and during riding: • Take a safety training course to learn how to operate an ATV safely, and only ride an ATV that’s right for your size and age. Visit the ATV Safety Institute’s website for information. • Always wear an approved helmet and eye protection. In many states, helmets and eye protection are required by law, particularly for kids. • Wear long pants, long sleeves, gloves, and over-the-ankle boots to help prevent scrapes and cuts. • Only ride during daylight hours. • Always ride at a safe speed on a designated ATV trail. • Know basic first aid to treat minor injuries, and be able to get help in an emergency. It’s important to never do the following while riding an ATV: • Never ride on a three-wheel ATV. • Never ride while drinking alcohol or using drugs. • Never ride on paved surfaces or public roads (except to cross them). • Never exceed the number of passengers recommended by the manufacturer. • Never let kids and teens drive an ATV with a passenger. ATV riding will always be risky and because they’re fun, many kids and teens will want to try them. There are no guarantees that kids won’t get hurt, even with precautions and protective laws in place. But by making sure that riders follow safety rules and know how to use ATVs safely, parents can do their best to help protect them from being injured.
Whether you use your ATV to hit the trails or get work done around the farm, these coverages will help keep you protected. • ATV protection: Blazing your own trail can come with the occasional bump in the road. But don’t get sidetracked by a setback! Our comprehensive and collision coverage helps protect against most accidental damage or loss to your ATV. • Liability Protection: Accidents happen. And, as an ATV owner, you could be held responsible. Our liability coverage helps protect you and anyone operating your four-wheeler with your permission, it can help you pay for property damage, first aid, medical and court costs so you can stay focused on your growing dreams. • Gear protection: Safety should come first when you hit the trails that are why we offer protection for your gear. Get up to $1,000 of safety apparel coverage for your helmet, boots and other gear and ride on worry-free. • Additional support: So, you’ve accidentally backed your four-wheeler into your car. ATV Insurance Cost On average, your ATV insurance can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars per year. The cost for ATV insurance varies per owner depending on a number of factors, including: • The state you live in • Your driving history • The make and model of your ATV • What you use it for • How much coverage you purchase Added Coverage, Extra Peace of Mind • Medical expense coverage: If you’re hurt while on your ATV, this will help pay for medical care to get you back to your old self. • Uninsured motorist coverage: This protects you if you or anyone riding your ATV is hurt in an accident that was caused by an uninsured vehicle or a hit-and-run driver. • Underinsured motorist coverage: This helps pay for the balance of an accident when another driver is at fault and doesn’t carry enough insurance.
Woods Cross ATV Injury Lawyer Free Consultation
When you’ve been injured in an ATV accident and need to recover for your personal injuries, please call Ascent Law LLC for your free consultation (801) 676-5506. We want to help you.
Ascent Law LLC 8833 S. Redwood Road, Suite C West Jordan, Utah 84088 United States Telephone: (801) 676-5506
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ATV Accident Lawyer Woods Cross Utah
Woods Cross is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,761 as of the 2010 census, with an estimated population in 2018 of 11,328. Woods Cross is named after Daniel Wood, an early settler in the Utah Territory. Wood (October 16, 1800 – April 15, 1892) was a Mormon pioneer and a settler of the western United States. He was the son of Henry Wood and Elizabeth Demelt. He was born in Dutchess County, New York and died in Woods Cross. Woods Cross is in southeastern Davis County, bordered to the north by West Bountiful, to the east by Bountiful, and to the south by the City of North Salt Lake. According to the United States Census Bureau, Woods Cross has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10.0 km2), all of it land. As of 2009 estimates, there were 8,888 people, 1,936 households, and 1,589 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,783.2 people per square mile (688.4/km²). There were 2,021 housing units at an average density of 561.4 per square mile (216.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 93.75% White, 0.44% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.26% Pacific Islander, 2.55% from other races, and 2.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.72% of the population.
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There were 1,936 households out of which 52.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.4% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.9% were non-families. 13.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.32 and the average family size was 3.69. In the city, the population was spread out with 36.0% under the age of 18, 13.0% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 15.7% from 45 to 64, and 3.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.8 males. The median income for a household in the city was $46,271, and the median income for a family was $51,778. Males had a median income of $35,958 versus $22,917 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,508. About 4.0% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those ages 65 or over Woods Cross is part of Davis School District. The city has one high school, Woods Cross High School, and two elementary schools, Odyssey Elementary and Woods Cross Elementary. Woods Cross, Utah, might best be described as industrial suburbia. Oil pipelines burrow beneath tidy streets, and a refinery tower’s flare is visible from a booth at the Paradise Bakery and Cafe. There’s a paint manufacturer, an interstate highway, freight trains hauling asphalt and crude, and some of the nation’s worst winter air quality. The solidly middle-class residents of Woods Cross may not enjoy these aspects of their lives, but they generally tolerate them.
After all, they chose to live here. Now, there’s a new problem: A decades-old chemical leak from a drycleaner has contaminated the city’s drinking water aquifer with a plume of the industrial solvent tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to declare it a Superfund site, one of three in the area. At high-enough concentrations, PCE can be carcinogenic and cause kidney, liver and immune and nervous system problems. However, the PCE-tainted water is tapped for only a couple months out of the year, and even then at concentrations too low to be considered harmful. That’s why the federal agency won’t help pay for a $4 million filtration system to help fix the problem. Yet the townsfolk, despite their tolerance of other environmental hazards, have enthusiastically agreed to pay for the system, expected to be functioning by next summer. The situation illustrates how the residents weigh the PCE problem against other dangers, and exhibits a key difference between how regulators and most citizens respond to environmental risk. The health risks may be very low, but if you knew your water contained even a smidgeon of poison, would you want to drink and bathe in it? This dense Salt Lake City suburb found out about the PCE in the late 1980s, when the chemical appeared in two municipal water wells, which were immediately turned off. In 2007, after years of study, the EPA finally put the plume on its Superfund list. (PCE pollution is responsible for nearly a third of all listings.) The agency dug up enough contaminated dirt to fill about 20 pickup trucks and began debating how to clean up the plume. The owners of the drycleaner, which is still operating, can’t cover the costs. Most of the year, the town’s water comes from uncontaminated sources. But to meet higher summer demand, it also turns on a contaminated well, sending low concentrations of PCE through showerheads and into drinking glasses. Even then, the concentrations of PCE remain below the agency’s legal limit of 5 parts per billion, and the tap water meets Safe Drinking Water Act standards. That explains the EPA’s seeming lack of concern. “EPA comes in when there is a serious and dangerous immediate threat to health,” says Peggy Linn, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator for the Superfund site. Woods Cross faced a genuine environmental threat: One of the refineries exploded — twice — breaking windows and cracking nearby foundations.
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“People were furious,” says Mayor Kent Parry, but the outrage subsided as residents figured out there wasn’t much the city could do. After all, the refinery had been there long before the subdivisions that surround it, and people knew about that risk when they moved in. But as a newer, involuntary risk, the PCE plume is different, says Bob Benson, an EPA toxicologist. EPA officials tasked with deciding whether to build an expensive treatment system would likely consider things like maximum contaminant levels, neurological damage threshold, and concentrations at which cancer risk becomes one in a million. But ultimately, the decision here may have come down to the fact that a simple solution actually exists — unlike with so many other hazards. “It is something over which we have control,” Parry says. “We spend the money, we build the treatment facility, and the PCE is gone.”
All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Safety
All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are off-road vehicles often used for recreation. In most states, it’s legal for older kids and teens to ride them, even without a driver’s license. But with the thrills come major safety risks. ATVs can be unstable and hard to control, particularly at high speeds. Rollovers and collisions happen often, and some of these are fatal. Injuries from riding ATVs are common too and can mean an emergency-room visit. As a result, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) discourages kids and teens ages 16 or younger from driving or riding on ATVs. If you decide to let your child ride an ATV, make sure he or she follows safety precautions and understands how to safely operate the vehicle. While this helps to reduce the risk of injury or death, the only way to truly keep kids safe is to prevent them from riding ATVs. ATVs are motorized vehicles that are meant to be used off-road or on dirt roads, not on paved roads or highways. They usually have four large balloon-style tires, with a seat in the middle that a rider straddles while steering by the handlebars. There are still some three-wheeler ATVs around, but manufacturers stopped making them in 1988 due to concerns about stability and safety. Weighing more than 600 pounds, ATVs have large, powerful engines that allow them to reach speeds of 65 mph or more. They have a high center of gravity and no roll bars, safety cages, or seatbelts, meaning they can tip easily, throw riders and passengers off, or even roll over on top of riders. This can cause serious injury or death, usually because of head injuries. Other common injuries include cuts, scrapes, broken collarbones, and broken arms and legs.
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There are no federal regulations or age limits when it comes to riding ATVs. Instead, each state has its own guidelines and laws. Some states require ATV riders to be 16 years old and have a safety certificate. Other states allow kids as young as 10 to ride ATVs as long as they’re supervised by an adult with a valid driver’s license. The AAP does not recommend ATV use for children and teens 16 or younger. ATVs can be too large for smaller kids to handle safely, even if it’s legal for them to be riding them. Safely operating an ATV requires the driver to make quick decisions, such as speeding up, slowing down, or shifting his or her weight in response to changes in the environment. Kids under 16 are unlikely to be able to make these choices or have the skills to carry them out. If your child does ride an ATV, make sure you understand and follow the rules of your state. Visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) online for this information. This applies even if your child won’t be steering the ATV. Many states don’t allow passengers to ride unless the ATV is specifically designed to carry two people.
ATV Guidelines
Kids age 16 and younger should not ride an ATV. Anyone who does ride an ATV should follow these tips before and during riding: • Take a safety training course to learn how to operate an ATV safely, and only ride an ATV that’s right for your size and age. Visit the ATV Safety Institute’s website for information. • Always wear an approved helmet and eye protection. In many states, helmets and eye protection are required by law, particularly for kids. • Wear long pants, long sleeves, gloves, and over-the-ankle boots to help prevent scrapes and cuts. • Only ride during daylight hours. • Always ride at a safe speed on a designated ATV trail. • Know basic first aid to treat minor injuries, and be able to get help in an emergency. It’s important to never do the following while riding an ATV: • Never ride on a three-wheel ATV. • Never ride while drinking alcohol or using drugs. • Never ride on paved surfaces or public roads (except to cross them). • Never exceed the number of passengers recommended by the manufacturer. • Never let kids and teens drive an ATV with a passenger. ATV riding will always be risky and because they’re fun, many kids and teens will want to try them. There are no guarantees that kids won’t get hurt, even with precautions and protective laws in place. But by making sure that riders follow safety rules and know how to use ATVs safely, parents can do their best to help protect them from being injured.
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Whether you use your ATV to hit the trails or get work done around the farm, these coverages will help keep you protected. • ATV protection: Blazing your own trail can come with the occasional bump in the road. But don’t get sidetracked by a setback! Our comprehensive and collision coverage helps protect against most accidental damage or loss to your ATV. • Liability Protection: Accidents happen. And, as an ATV owner, you could be held responsible. Our liability coverage helps protect you and anyone operating your four-wheeler with your permission, it can help you pay for property damage, first aid, medical and court costs so you can stay focused on your growing dreams. • Gear protection: Safety should come first when you hit the trails that are why we offer protection for your gear. Get up to $1,000 of safety apparel coverage for your helmet, boots and other gear and ride on worry-free. • Additional support: So, you’ve accidentally backed your four-wheeler into your car. ATV Insurance Cost On average, your ATV insurance can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars per year. The cost for ATV insurance varies per owner depending on a number of factors, including: • The state you live in • Your driving history • The make and model of your ATV • What you use it for • How much coverage you purchase Added Coverage, Extra Peace of Mind • Medical expense coverage: If you’re hurt while on your ATV, this will help pay for medical care to get you back to your old self. • Uninsured motorist coverage: This protects you if you or anyone riding your ATV is hurt in an accident that was caused by an uninsured vehicle or a hit-and-run driver. • Underinsured motorist coverage: This helps pay for the balance of an accident when another driver is at fault and doesn’t carry enough insurance.
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ATV Accident Lawyer Woods Cross Utah
Woods Cross is a city in Davis County, Utah, United States. It is part of the Ogden–Clearfield, Utah Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 9,761 as of the 2010 census, with an estimated population in 2018 of 11,328. Woods Cross is named after Daniel Wood, an early settler in the Utah Territory. Wood (October 16, 1800 – April 15, 1892) was a Mormon pioneer and a settler of the western United States. He was the son of Henry Wood and Elizabeth Demelt. He was born in Dutchess County, New York and died in Woods Cross. Woods Cross is in southeastern Davis County, bordered to the north by West Bountiful, to the east by Bountiful, and to the south by the City of North Salt Lake. According to the United States Census Bureau, Woods Cross has a total area of 3.9 square miles (10.0 km2), all of it land. As of 2009 estimates, there were 8,888 people, 1,936 households, and 1,589 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,783.2 people per square mile (688.4/km²). There were 2,021 housing units at an average density of 561.4 per square mile (216.8/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 93.75% White, 0.44% African American, 0.25% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.26% Pacific Islander, 2.55% from other races, and 2.04% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 5.72% of the population.
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There were 1,936 households out of which 52.4% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 67.4% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 17.9% were non-families. 13.3% of all households were made up of individuals and 2.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.32 and the average family size was 3.69. In the city, the population was spread out with 36.0% under the age of 18, 13.0% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 15.7% from 45 to 64, and 3.7% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 26 years. For every 100 females, there were 100.0 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 100.8 males. The median income for a household in the city was $46,271, and the median income for a family was $51,778. Males had a median income of $35,958 versus $22,917 for females. The per capita income for the city was $16,508. About 4.0% of families and 4.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.7% of those under age 18 and 8.7% of those ages 65 or over Woods Cross is part of Davis School District. The city has one high school, Woods Cross High School, and two elementary schools, Odyssey Elementary and Woods Cross Elementary. Woods Cross, Utah, might best be described as industrial suburbia. Oil pipelines burrow beneath tidy streets, and a refinery tower’s flare is visible from a booth at the Paradise Bakery and Cafe. There’s a paint manufacturer, an interstate highway, freight trains hauling asphalt and crude, and some of the nation’s worst winter air quality. The solidly middle-class residents of Woods Cross may not enjoy these aspects of their lives, but they generally tolerate them.
After all, they chose to live here. Now, there’s a new problem: A decades-old chemical leak from a drycleaner has contaminated the city’s drinking water aquifer with a plume of the industrial solvent tetrachloroethylene, or PCE, prompting the Environmental Protection Agency to declare it a Superfund site, one of three in the area. At high-enough concentrations, PCE can be carcinogenic and cause kidney, liver and immune and nervous system problems. However, the PCE-tainted water is tapped for only a couple months out of the year, and even then at concentrations too low to be considered harmful. That’s why the federal agency won’t help pay for a $4 million filtration system to help fix the problem. Yet the townsfolk, despite their tolerance of other environmental hazards, have enthusiastically agreed to pay for the system, expected to be functioning by next summer. The situation illustrates how the residents weigh the PCE problem against other dangers, and exhibits a key difference between how regulators and most citizens respond to environmental risk. The health risks may be very low, but if you knew your water contained even a smidgeon of poison, would you want to drink and bathe in it? This dense Salt Lake City suburb found out about the PCE in the late 1980s, when the chemical appeared in two municipal water wells, which were immediately turned off. In 2007, after years of study, the EPA finally put the plume on its Superfund list. (PCE pollution is responsible for nearly a third of all listings.) The agency dug up enough contaminated dirt to fill about 20 pickup trucks and began debating how to clean up the plume. The owners of the drycleaner, which is still operating, can’t cover the costs. Most of the year, the town’s water comes from uncontaminated sources. But to meet higher summer demand, it also turns on a contaminated well, sending low concentrations of PCE through showerheads and into drinking glasses. Even then, the concentrations of PCE remain below the agency’s legal limit of 5 parts per billion, and the tap water meets Safe Drinking Water Act standards. That explains the EPA’s seeming lack of concern. “EPA comes in when there is a serious and dangerous immediate threat to health,” says Peggy Linn, the EPA’s community involvement coordinator for the Superfund site. Woods Cross faced a genuine environmental threat: One of the refineries exploded — twice — breaking windows and cracking nearby foundations.
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“People were furious,” says Mayor Kent Parry, but the outrage subsided as residents figured out there wasn’t much the city could do. After all, the refinery had been there long before the subdivisions that surround it, and people knew about that risk when they moved in. But as a newer, involuntary risk, the PCE plume is different, says Bob Benson, an EPA toxicologist. EPA officials tasked with deciding whether to build an expensive treatment system would likely consider things like maximum contaminant levels, neurological damage threshold, and concentrations at which cancer risk becomes one in a million. But ultimately, the decision here may have come down to the fact that a simple solution actually exists — unlike with so many other hazards. “It is something over which we have control,” Parry says. “We spend the money, we build the treatment facility, and the PCE is gone.”
All-Terrain Vehicle (ATV) Safety
All-terrain vehicles (ATVs) are off-road vehicles often used for recreation. In most states, it’s legal for older kids and teens to ride them, even without a driver’s license. But with the thrills come major safety risks. ATVs can be unstable and hard to control, particularly at high speeds. Rollovers and collisions happen often, and some of these are fatal. Injuries from riding ATVs are common too and can mean an emergency-room visit. As a result, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) discourages kids and teens ages 16 or younger from driving or riding on ATVs. If you decide to let your child ride an ATV, make sure he or she follows safety precautions and understands how to safely operate the vehicle. While this helps to reduce the risk of injury or death, the only way to truly keep kids safe is to prevent them from riding ATVs. ATVs are motorized vehicles that are meant to be used off-road or on dirt roads, not on paved roads or highways. They usually have four large balloon-style tires, with a seat in the middle that a rider straddles while steering by the handlebars. There are still some three-wheeler ATVs around, but manufacturers stopped making them in 1988 due to concerns about stability and safety. Weighing more than 600 pounds, ATVs have large, powerful engines that allow them to reach speeds of 65 mph or more. They have a high center of gravity and no roll bars, safety cages, or seatbelts, meaning they can tip easily, throw riders and passengers off, or even roll over on top of riders. This can cause serious injury or death, usually because of head injuries. Other common injuries include cuts, scrapes, broken collarbones, and broken arms and legs.
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There are no federal regulations or age limits when it comes to riding ATVs. Instead, each state has its own guidelines and laws. Some states require ATV riders to be 16 years old and have a safety certificate. Other states allow kids as young as 10 to ride ATVs as long as they’re supervised by an adult with a valid driver’s license. The AAP does not recommend ATV use for children and teens 16 or younger. ATVs can be too large for smaller kids to handle safely, even if it’s legal for them to be riding them. Safely operating an ATV requires the driver to make quick decisions, such as speeding up, slowing down, or shifting his or her weight in response to changes in the environment. Kids under 16 are unlikely to be able to make these choices or have the skills to carry them out. If your child does ride an ATV, make sure you understand and follow the rules of your state. Visit the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) online for this information. This applies even if your child won’t be steering the ATV. Many states don’t allow passengers to ride unless the ATV is specifically designed to carry two people.
ATV Guidelines
Kids age 16 and younger should not ride an ATV. Anyone who does ride an ATV should follow these tips before and during riding: • Take a safety training course to learn how to operate an ATV safely, and only ride an ATV that’s right for your size and age. Visit the ATV Safety Institute’s website for information. • Always wear an approved helmet and eye protection. In many states, helmets and eye protection are required by law, particularly for kids. • Wear long pants, long sleeves, gloves, and over-the-ankle boots to help prevent scrapes and cuts. • Only ride during daylight hours. • Always ride at a safe speed on a designated ATV trail. • Know basic first aid to treat minor injuries, and be able to get help in an emergency. It’s important to never do the following while riding an ATV: • Never ride on a three-wheel ATV. • Never ride while drinking alcohol or using drugs. • Never ride on paved surfaces or public roads (except to cross them). • Never exceed the number of passengers recommended by the manufacturer. • Never let kids and teens drive an ATV with a passenger. ATV riding will always be risky and because they’re fun, many kids and teens will want to try them. There are no guarantees that kids won’t get hurt, even with precautions and protective laws in place. But by making sure that riders follow safety rules and know how to use ATVs safely, parents can do their best to help protect them from being injured.
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Whether you use your ATV to hit the trails or get work done around the farm, these coverages will help keep you protected. • ATV protection: Blazing your own trail can come with the occasional bump in the road. But don’t get sidetracked by a setback! Our comprehensive and collision coverage helps protect against most accidental damage or loss to your ATV. • Liability Protection: Accidents happen. And, as an ATV owner, you could be held responsible. Our liability coverage helps protect you and anyone operating your four-wheeler with your permission, it can help you pay for property damage, first aid, medical and court costs so you can stay focused on your growing dreams. • Gear protection: Safety should come first when you hit the trails that are why we offer protection for your gear. Get up to $1,000 of safety apparel coverage for your helmet, boots and other gear and ride on worry-free. • Additional support: So, you’ve accidentally backed your four-wheeler into your car. ATV Insurance Cost On average, your ATV insurance can cost anywhere from a few hundred dollars to over a thousand dollars per year. The cost for ATV insurance varies per owner depending on a number of factors, including: • The state you live in • Your driving history • The make and model of your ATV • What you use it for • How much coverage you purchase Added Coverage, Extra Peace of Mind • Medical expense coverage: If you’re hurt while on your ATV, this will help pay for medical care to get you back to your old self. • Uninsured motorist coverage: This protects you if you or anyone riding your ATV is hurt in an accident that was caused by an uninsured vehicle or a hit-and-run driver. • Underinsured motorist coverage: This helps pay for the balance of an accident when another driver is at fault and doesn’t carry enough insurance.
Woods Cross ATV Injury Lawyer Free Consultation
When you’ve been injured in an ATV accident and need to recover for your personal injuries, please call Ascent Law LLC for your free consultation (801) 676-5506. We want to help you.
Ascent Law LLC 8833 S. Redwood Road, Suite C West Jordan, Utah 84088 United States Telephone: (801) 676-5506
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