if the county didn t want it, why is it here? that s something they ve certainly appealed to the state and others about. we understand that. we ll do our utmost to be sure that they are familiar with what is going on here. reporter: haldin says this landfill has a liner that runs underneath the entire site. in fact, it s under my feet where i m walking right now. he says that liner is supposed to contain everything that s dumped here at the landfill and protect it from any leaks. he also says the ground water and the air is monitored and if anything goes wrong, they would know it. the epa told us bp, along with the epa, are also sampling the landfills regularly to make sure they are safe. the agency also said it directed bp to keep its waste disposal operations, quote, fully transparent. bp must post information about the disposal of all collected waste on their website, along with any community complaints. connie rockco is first in line. if it s not hazardous, why would someone
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made by the the person that was handling whatever use of dispersants was being used that day. so according to thad allen, all of this was under the control of the federal government so if any blame is to be made in any of this it should not go to bp but the federal government. but thad allen was pretty clear that he felt that this did not go above and beyond what was necessary in order to clean up that oil spill. i also have to let you know that we re standing by in just a little while from now at about 3:30 central time, 4:30 your time, doug suttles, the coo of bp is expected to give a briefing just behind me. he s been out on the marshes all day long looking at some of the oil that s washed ashore in plaquemines parish, which is south of new orleans. as you know, plaquemines parish is the home of the president of
top of this the whole time. that any use of dispersant that was exempted from the new epa guidelines on dispersant use went through him, that he authorized those dispersant uses and in his words, they were only used as much as needed. so he is essentially shooting down the accusation that s coming from ed markey on that key committee that oversees this disaster out here, the disaster response out here. and essentially is saying that, you know, epa wanted the use of dispersants curtailed in response to this disaster and he believes that that is what happened. randi? and the epa has been saying that they were only supposed to be using these dispersants in rare occasions, but it doesn t sound like that s what thad allen was saying? reporter: well, he said that there were exemptions that were granted from time to time and that those decisions i actually asked him about this at one point. he was very clear that the decisions were not made by bp to use the dispersants, they were
the gulf, possibly because of the navy skimmers that are on the water. also because of those dispersants. but now we re learning bp may have used more of those chemicals than they were supposed to and the coast guard signed off on it. our jim acosta is in venice, louisiana, with more. jim? reporter: good afternoon, randism. we just were on a conference call with thad allen, the admiral who is the incident commander of this oil disaster, and he briefed reporters on basically a letter that came out of the congress. a house democrat from massachusetts, ed markey, released a letter over the weekend basically alleging that dispersants were used at a greater scale to dramatically reduce the amount of oil in the gulf under orders from the coast guard and thad allen, despite epa guidelines that that dispersant be curtailed. and thad allen talked about this during this conference call and said that essentially he was on
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