Tag: toxic waste

Overburdened Communities

By Erik Loomis

In General

On June 10, 2022

One of the ways that corporations move catastrophe around is finding the least empowered communities to dump toxic waste and other pollution. I mean this quite literally–there is a ton of documented evidence on how they pick communities for these sites. Chemwaste once did a deal with George Wallace’s son-in-law to get a permit in […]

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The Day Trump Truly Killed Neoliberalism

By Erik Loomis

On December 12, 2019

It’s the little things that truly mark the horrors of any Republican presidency, such as not allowing people to see where toxic waste might exist. On December 16, the National Library of Medicin

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Another Out of Sight Excerpt

By Erik Loomis

On June 17, 2015

Truthout has published an excerpt of Out of Sight, on toxicity and environmental justice. The potential for a strong labor-green coalition to fight for healthy workplaces and ecosystems clean enough f

Cancer Clusters

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 12, 2014

Paul Voosen has an interesting article at National Geographic that wonders why there has not been more known cancer clusters develop given the nation’s long history of toxicity. There’s no shortage of the skeptic in Voosen and so the article in places reads like someone who really doesn’t believe toxicity may be that great of […]

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Freedom

By Erik Loomis

On January 10, 2014

I now see why the Republicans passed the bill to gut Superfund. It’s clearly unnecessary, what with a company actually named Freedom Industries taking care of the good people of West Virginia. S

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Terrible Republican Ideas, Part 24,209

By Erik Loomis

On January 10, 2014

House Republicans passed a bill yesterday gutting Superfund. Yes, that’s right, the Republican Party supports the exposure of Americans to toxic waste. Of course, as we all know there is no mean

Cleaning the Rivers

By Erik Loomis

In General

On August 14, 2012

A very good piece on the trickiness of Superfund attempts to clean up rivers. Is it better to clean up the toxic sludge at the bottom of rivers flowing through industrial sites, even though it could stir up those toxins in the short term? Or is better to risk those short-term problems in order to […]

AndersH As I understand it, several teams have started doing package deals of some sort, in addition to the individuals who are getting what the market will bear.
Pathetic · March 26, 2023
jmauro2000 They ruin all sorts of places unfortunately.
Castner Range National Monument · March 26, 2023
jmauro2000 Wasn’t the eastern part was originally part of Kansas so it was granted out under the same rules they handed out farmsteads on the Great Plains.
Castner Range National Monument · March 26, 2023
jmauro2000 I mean you can do it in a day, it’s you’re just not going to be able to see anything once you get there because you’re going to need to turn around a catch a flight home.
Castner Range National Monument · March 26, 2023
jmauro2000 You are both right: The CCC was created with Prop 20 in 1972 to enforce access, but it was time limited in duration. The Coast Act extended prop 20 indefinitely. California’s public access...
Castner Range National Monument · March 26, 2023