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Toxic Waste

Posted inNonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes, Science & Nature

How To Destroy Texas While Helping The Coal Economy

by Aaron Gilbreath November 8, 2019October 19, 2022

A three-part collaboration exposes the state of Texas’ willingness to violate federal law for the sake of the coal industry.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

North Carolina’s Military Toxic Waste Negligence

by Katie Kosma August 23, 2018October 19, 2022

A reporter’s North Carolina hometown water supply contaminated millions of people, including her mother and two of her now-deceased brothers.

Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Prison: A Death Sentence by Poison

by Krista Stevens July 25, 2018October 19, 2022

Nearly a third of all US federal prisons are located within three miles of a Superfund site; 134 are located within one mile.

oil refinery
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes

Living and Dying in Cancer Alley

by michelleweber January 20, 2016October 19, 2022

David Hanson, writing for the Bitter Southerner, helps residents of Standard Heights, Baton Rouge, tell their story of a town next to an Exxon plant — explosions, sinkholes, toxic sludge, and a everyday life that has to go on, regardless.

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