Environment & Energy

Toxic waste sites are pretty common in the U.S.A.. Hanford might not be the worst.



If someone is killed or sickened by toxic waste it really doesn't matter if it's radioactive or not. Dead is dead, sick is sick.

People all over the United States are still drinking and bathing in water that is contaminated by toxic industrial and agricultural wastes.

When I was growing up the groundwater in a nearby town was contaminated with toxic Hexavalent chromium originating from various "clean" industries. I think in those days "clean" meant they didn't burn coal, which impressed recent immigrant's from America's industrial heartland.

This was all before Erin Brockovich. Not much was said about it, probably for fear of depressing real estate prices, but it did add impetus to import water from the Colorado River and California State Water Project.