The Great Lakes Legacy Act is awaiting a vote in the US Senate. The new and improved act triples funding to clean up toxic sediments in the Great Lakes and her tributaries. Last year when the same legislation came before the US Senate it was shot down by an Oklahoma Senator. Lets explain why this can’t happen again.
Michigan’s Department of Community Health released a report this week that found that residents had been exposed to dangerous levels of dioxins from Dow Chemical.
The report states that last year, “residents breathed, touched and accidentally ate dioxins in soil and dust.” Families living on “tainted properties” were exposed to “dioxins at a higher rate than what the World Health Organization considers safe.”
The pollution is finding its way into peoples yards when the river floods. We are capable of cleaning up this legacy from our industrial past but we need to get serious about it.
To read more about this go to: http://detnews.com/article/20090902/LIFESTYLE03/909020405/1448/LIFESTYLE14/Dioxins-from-Dow-may-have-hurt-residents–health
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