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Environment Ballot issue Little Scioto cleanup meanders Would legal By Laura Arenschield a park. dles here. The Baker Wood Preserving THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH The creek, surrounded by That quiet scene, though, Co., a business that treated tall grass, crooked trees and a belies the murky truth: The railroad ties with coal-tar pot create GREEN CAMP, Ohio — The chorus of croaking frogs, is Little Scioto River is among creosote from 1890 until it Little Scioto River flows peaceful compared with the the nation’s most polluted. closed in the 1960s, is the more jobs through Marion County here, noise of Columbus nearly The waterway is laden with past cornfields, factories and 60 miles away. The river daw- toxic chemicals. See Cleanup Page A6 or trouble?

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A tsunami of green is going to hit Ohio — big green waves of cash — if marijuana is legalized, advocates say. “There’s enough money in this for everybody,” Responsib- leOhio investor Alan Mooney says in a YouTube video promot- ing his Ohio Cannabis Institute. Mooney, an entrepreneur and licensed minister who uses “Sir” with his name because of an honorary designation by Pope Benedict XVI, calls marijuana a “miracle plant” and “a gift from God.” But opponents say the effect would be devastation, not salva- tion.

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Medicine 2 cholesterol drugs pricey, COURTNEY HERGESHEIMER DISPATCH A cardboard cutout of Pope Francis greets people as they enter the offices at St. John Neumann Catholic Church in Sunbury. A promising group from the church, including the Rev. David Sizemore, will attend the papal Mass in Philadelphia next Sunday. By Misti Crane THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH

This summer was revolu- tionary for cardiologists and some of their toughest-to-treat ‘A people’s pope’ patients. Almost three decades after the advent of statins, two new, By JoAnne Viviano • THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH powerful cholesterol drugs Francis’ upcoming gained approval by the U.S. hirty seconds. • That’s how long it took fans of Pope Food and Drug Administration. U.S. visit generating Francis to snatch up 10,000 tickets released last week for Doctors say the injected his Mass in Philadelphia. Rock-star status? Absolutely. lots of excitement T• As the leader of the Roman Catholic Church prepares See Drugs Page A5 to make his first U.S. visit this week, organizers are preparing for in central Ohio, the unprecedented crush of people expected to visit Washington, • New York or Philly in the hope of getting a glimpse of the man across the country known as “the people’s pope.” See Pope Page A10 A6 THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH TODAY’S TOP STORIES SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 2015 

The overall price tag was Cleanup Ohio Superfund sites ˙ ˙˙ ˙˙ LAKE set at $17 million. FROM PAGE A1 ˙ ASHTABULA The U.S. EPA named ˙ the Little Scioto a Super- LORAIN CUYAHOGA cause of the pollution. ˙ fund site in 2009 and PORTAGE Stacked and left outside SUMMIT ˙ hoped the cleanup effort to dry, the creosote- ˙˙ would resume again in ˙ ˙ drenched ties dripped the STARK COLUMBIANA 2012. But nothing has oily tar onto the ground, ˙ happened. MARION CARROLL where it oozed into a ˙ TUSCA- Steve Snyder, who RAWAS ditch that runs to the ˙ ˙ works in the Ohio EPA’s COSHOCTON ˙ Little Scioto. A known ˙ Bowling Green office on DARKE MIAMI GUERNSEY cancer risk to people, the ˙ ˙ ˙ BELMONT environmental cleanup, ˙ FRANKLIN MUSKINGUM ˙ ˙ ˙ ˙ CLARK ˙˙ creosote killed all aquatic MONT- ˙ said there has been some life in a 5-mile stretch of GOMERY MONROE behind-the-scenes work. ˙ ˙ ˙˙ PICKAWAY ˙ the stream. ˙˙˙ ˙ The U.S. EPA has com- BUTLER WASHINGTON For years, federal, state ˙˙ WARREN ˙ ˙ pleted a draft proposal for ˙ and local officials have ˙˙˙ how to clean that section talked about restoring HAMILTON of the river, and other that section of the Little documents that have to Scioto. Cleanup efforts be completed before the actually started once, but LAW- work can be considered RENCE the money to pay for ˙˙˙ for funding are tentatively them dried up. Source: EPA THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH scheduled to be done by “It’s disappointing,” 2016, he said. said Lynn Clabaugh, a allowed the U.S. Envi- 2009 American Recovery Even then, the Little Marion Township trustee ronmental Protection and Reinvestment Act, Scioto will compete with and farmer who owns Agency and its state part- but the money has de- the 1,300-plus Superfund land along the Little Scio- ner agencies to clean up clined steadily since then. sites nationwide. to. “They have the federal toxic messes and, in That leaves sites such Andy Appelfeller, a and the state money to many cases, force compa- as the Little Scioto in the Marion County farmer do everything else except nies to cover the costs. lurch. The toxins are so and longtime Marion to do what is basic for At its peak, the fund bad there that the Ohio County commissioner, people, like take care of ADAM CAIRNS DISPATCH had about $3.8 billion at EPA is advising people said he has been involved the water quality.” Because previous cleanup efforts stalled, part of the its disposal. But in 1995, not to touch the water in in conversations about The Little Scioto is a Little Scioto River remains fouled with toxic creosote. Congress allowed the tax the river between Holland the Little Scioto for more Superfund site, one of 50 requirement to expire. Road, just west of Marion, than a decade. in Ohio and among more can take years, if not health regulations. Since then, the fund has and Rt. 739 near Green “You can’t fish, you than 1,000 nationwide. decades, to complete. The Superfund began struggled to stay viable. Camp. can’t swim, no anything The Superfund was cre- Whatever money is avail- in 1980 after Gibbs, a The U.S. EPA has lobbied In 2002 and 2006, river in the river,” he said. “I ated 35 years ago to deal able these days is used on then-housewife in Niag- for a return of the tax, but sediment was dug up and think it will eventually get with severe pollution the worst cases, experts ara Falls, N.Y., learned manufacturers have ar- sent to a hazardous-waste done. I hope in my life- caused by industrial say. that her son’s neighbor- gued against it. facility at a cost of about time. I’d like to see it.” chemical contamination. “Every year, it’s a fight hood elementary school The Superfund got a $8 million. However, the larenschield@ For 20 years, cleanup to see how much Con- had been built next to a one-time cash infusion of work stopped before half dispatch.com efforts were regularly gress is going to give us toxic-waste dump. That $600 million from the the job was completed. @larenschield funded, and projects were (for Superfund clean- neighborhood was Love completed. But over the ups),” said Lois Gibbs, Canal, a name now syn- past 15 years, the fund often called the “mother onymous with the fight to has dwindled. This year, of Superfund.” She clean up industrial waste. BECOME A WEIGHT LOSS SUCCESS! the total is about $1.1 bil- founded the Center for For a while, the Super- lion, about one-third of Health, Environment and fund was financed in part PATIENT PROFILE what it was at its peak. Justice, a national orga- by a tax paid by manu- Environmental clean- nization that lobbies for facturing and chemical Casey Adams ups are expensive and stronger environmental companies. The money “For the fi rst time in years I feel physically and mentally fi t.” Derailment

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