By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites.
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act. - Sandra Steingraber
From the right to know and the duty to inquire flows the obligation to act.
- Sandra Steingraber
I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step. - Sandra Steingraber
I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.
Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded. - Sandra Steingraber
Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.
I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote wa… - Sandra Steingraber
I have always been a big advocate of tap water-not because I think it harmless but because the idea of purchasing water extracted from some remote wa…
We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience… - Sandra Steingraber
We can change our thinking. Rather than viewing the chemical adulteration of our environment and our bodies as the inevitable practice of convenience…
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezu… - Sandra Steingraber
In the world outside this glass room, songbirds are feeding and resting in the trees. Some will take off tonight and not land until they reach Venezu…
... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves… - Sandra Steingraber
... we find ourselves facing a rising tide of biologically active, synthetic organic chemicals. Some tinker with our hormones. Some attach themselves…
Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gall… - Sandra Steingraber
Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gall…
Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size)… - Sandra Steingraber
Industrialized countries have disproportionately more cancers than countries with little or no industry (after adjusting for age and population size)…
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