Marie Harrison takes Living on Earth host Steve Curwood on a “toxic tour” of her old neighborhood, Bayview Hunters Point in southeast San Francisco. It’s not only home to mostly poor people of color, but also, to two power plants, the city’s sewage treatment facility, a naval shipyard declared a Superfund site, and many industrial companies.
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