Category: Environment

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Pat Miller

Toxic Torts: Compensating Victims of Hazardous Substances

Pat Miller is a housewife. Alvin Green is a farmer. Martha Laird is a housewife. Salvatore Ganci is a former construction worker and Steven Sterling is a former carpenter. They live in the rich farmland of Michigan, the desolate high desert of Nevada, the modest

Political cartoon

The Filthy Five

WASHINGTON, DC.–Bob Eckhardt, the softly drawling Texas Democrat whose bow ties and principled stands added a grace to the halls of Congress for 14 years, was beaten in the 1980 elections by a 28year-old Houston attorney who preached the Republican gospel of less government and

Most species of fish in Lake Ontario are contaminated with toxic chemical Mirex

The Northern Fish Mystery

BURLINGTON, Ontario–Klaus Kaiser felt no sense of urgency as he drove east across Canada in the summer of 1973 toward an obscure fishing station called Glenora in Lake Ontario’s Bay of Quinte. The young, German-born research scientist for Canada’s equivalent of the Environmental Protection Agency

SCHEMATIC ILLUSTRATION OF MIGRATION OF CONTAMINANTS FROM DUMP SITE INTO GROUND WATER AND STREAMS

A Creek Called Bloody Run

LEWISTON, N.Y.–During the 1950s, a decade that would come to be remembered by many as an uncomplicated, golden time when the market was bull and what was good for General Motors was good for the country, Hooker Chemical Company paid $48,000 for a strip of

Lathrop, California. Occidental Chemical Company, a subsidiary of Hooker Chemical Company, became known for the first major episode in the United States of worker infertility related to occupational exposure to chemicals.

Good Neighbor Policy

LATHROP, Cal.–The day after her 27-year-old husband died, Marta Trout and her relatives conducted a wake of sorts in front of the living room television, where the president of Hooker Chemical Company was being interviewed on -60 Minutes.” Mrs. Trout was struck by something the