Chemical Trespass

Over eighty thousand (80,000) corporate-produced chemicals are currently used in the United States, and scientists estimate that over seven hundred (700) of those corporate-produced chemicals are now found within the body of every human. Many of these chemicals can be found in treated sewage sludge, "frack" waste water from gas drilling, leachate from landfills, effluent from factories and smoke from incinerator stacks. Only a small percentage of those chemicals have ever been screened for even one potential health effect, such as cancer, reproductive toxicity, developmental toxicity, or injury to the immune system. Among the approximately fifteen thousand (15,000) chemicals tested, few have been studied enough to conclude that there are no risks from exposure. Even when testing is done, each chemical is tested individually rather than in synergistic combinations that reflect actual human exposure in the real world.

One thousand eight hundred (1,800) new chemicals enter the stream of commerce annually – thus entering into the waste stream, and the bodies of People, and into the air, water, soil, and food -  with few of those chemicals tested for adverse impacts on human health or ecosystems. The use of many such chemicals by corporations are shrouded in secrecy as "proprietary" ingredients.  None-the-less, sufficient data and experience exist for a reasonable person to conclude that a significant percentage of both currently used and newly manufactured chemicals are harmful to humans, animals, and ecosystems.

The purpose of Rights-based campaigns focusing on toxic trespass is to recognize and assert that it is an inviolate, fundamental, and inalienable right of each person residing within the community to be free from involuntary invasions of their bodies by corporate chemicals. Since government is the People’s means of protecting rights and enforcing laws that have that effect, and since it is the municipality's responsibility to protect the health, safety, and welfare of the residents, it is inextricably the essence of that responsibility for the municipality to protect residents against bodily chemical trespass with enforceable law.

Persons owning and managing corporations that manufacture, distribute, sell and deposit chemicals and chemical compounds found to be trespassing on the bodies of residents of the community, or into the ecosystems within community, must be held liable for those trespasses. The failure and refusal of the United States government and the government of the State to ensure that corporate chemicals do not trespass on the residents of the municipality makes them jointly and severally liable for those trespasses.