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Pollution in the United States

Toxins Website

The Environmental Defense Fund has established a Website with information collected from Toxic Release Inventory forms that most high-volume facilities use for reporting certain chemicals released into the environment. The site also includes information about health effects. Host Steve Curwood logs on to www.scorecard.org. with David Roe from the Environmental Defense Fund.

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Love Canal: Then and Now

What’s in Your Backyard?: EDF’s New Toxins Website

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Computerized Waste Exchange

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Latvia’s Love Canal

Reporter Bruce Gellerman visits what Latvian environmental activists call their republic’s worst toxic waste dump. At the site just outside the capital Riga, liquid waste from five chemical and pharmaceutical factories is stored in open pools, burned in a crude incinerator and injected into the ground. The waste is suspected of killing a nearby forest […]

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Toxic Town, USA

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Picher, Oklahoma, was like many other towns in the United States in the early 20th century. It became a boomtown after lead and zinc were found there. But by the 1970s, it ran dry, and the mining companies left, leaving Picher with a mound of pollution.

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