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Belgium Dioxin Scare

Steve talks with journalist Chris White about Europe’s most serious food scare since 1996. Meat products and byproducts have been pulled off the shelves in Belgium, and countries all over the world are refusing Belgian exports after it was discovered that thousands of pounds of animal feed had been contaminated with the carcinogen dioxin. The […]

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Dioxin Update

JAPANESE DIOXIN ON THE RISE

Mount Dioxin: The EPA Decision Comes In

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Reaching Beyond “Mount DIoxin”

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Dying From Dioxin!

Steve Curwood speaks with housewife and mother turned author and activist Lois Gibbs about her latest handbook, Dying From Dioxin: A Citizens Guide to Reclaiming Our Health. Gibbs got involved in fighting toxic waste while living in the now famous Love Canal neighborhood in upstate New York, where she began fighting for solutions to her […]

Dangerous Dioxin: An Update

Host Steve Curwood previews a forthcoming 2,000 page E.P.A. report on the harmful effects of dioxin. The new research compiled by hundreds of scientists contains findings which suggest that dioxin is even more hazardous than previously thought. Others, in the chlorine industry, say there is no need to be alarmed.

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Delays over Dioxin

A government report, fifteen years in the making, on the dangers of the chemical dioxin still needs fine-tuning.

Environmental Human Rights

Mossville, Louisiana is home to 300 residents and 14 major industrial facilities. The residents there have exhibited levels of dioxin in their blood twice as high as the average American, and they’re fed up with the pollution in their town. Host Steve Curwood talks with Monique Harden. She’s an attorney with Advocates for Environmental Human […]

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Dioxin Debate

For years, environmentalists in Michigan have been pressuring the state to clean up what they say are dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Midland, where Dow Chemical Company is headquartered. Dow says there’s no danger and the state has proposed easing dioxin cleanup standards. Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to soon […]

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