Awesome: LA school built on toxic soil named after Al Gore

It's not so much an irony as it is appropriate for the global warming huckster that flies around the planet on private jets and lives in a home that consumes 45 times the energy of the average American home while warning us of our energy usage and its ill effect on our planet for a school named after him to be built on a toxic dump. The school is devoted to environmental themes. It's not irony - it's poetic justice. From the LA Times via drudge:

Critics say the campus' location poses a long-term health risk to students and staff. ...

"Renaming this terribly contaminated school after famous environmental advocates is an affront to the great work that these individuals have done to protect the public's health from harm," an environmental coalition wrote in a letter to the Los Angeles Unified School District. Making sure the school is safe "would be an even better way to honor their contribution to society."

Construction crews were working at the campus up to the Labor Day weekend, replacing toxic soil with clean fill. ...

Groundwater about 45 feet below the surface remains contaminated but also poses no risk, officials said.

...other critics, including Robina Suwol, who heads the locally based California Safe Schools coalition, worry that the pollution sources have not been adequately identified and that the dirty groundwater could recontaminate the soil.

The principal however is throwing caution to the wind and wants to plant a garden and have a student-led farmer's market. Maybe they can feed the fruit to the eco moonabts and see how things work out.