Toxic Pollution
This week, Earthbeat takes a hard look at Toxic Pollution.
Rick Hind, the Legislative Director for Greenpeace's Toxics Campaign, speaks about the recent industrial waste fire in Apex, North Carolina that resulted in the evacuation of as many as 17 thousand people.
To get information from the EPA about toxins in our neighborhood, visit the Toxics Release Inventory.
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Eric Olson of the Natural Resources Defense Council speaks about the recent discovery in Washington, DC's Potomac River of male bass with female characteristcs, and Devra Lee Davis, the head of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh speaks about other sources of hormone pollution.
Click here for a list of haircare products that the University of Pittsburgh says could contain cancer-causing hormones.
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And two festivals in the DC area seek to help people take action to clean up their world. Joining Daphne Wysham inthe studio is Martin Ogle, the chief naturalist for the Northern Virginia Regional Park Authority & organizer of the Gaia Theory Conference. On the telephone is Todd Larsen, an organizer of the upcoming Green Festival and the managing director of the group Co-op America.
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