In 1972 neither teachers nor staff at Newton North High School had heard about mosthelioma. Today they know a great deal about it. They were exposed to asbestos the first time they walked into the still unfinished high school in June 1972. For the next ten years they were exposed to low levels of asbestos whenever...
Tag - environmental justice
under an administration that makes no bones about its aim to stick the poor, the boomers got rid of the provision altogether: last fall Congress passed a bill that increased the 160-acre limitation to 960 for "small" corporations and 640 for large, and granted free leasing privileges to all. Though ignored since its...
But ever since last December, when Washington was notified that chemical industry representatives were offering multi-million dollar deals to Third World leaders in exchange for guaranteed dumping sites, an ad hoc committee of representatives from the State Department, the EPA, and the Council on Environmental Quality...