toxic waste site

The map considers exposure to pollution, like diesel emissions, ozone concentration and fine particle pollution, as well as proximity to toxic waste sites.

Then environmental activists from the Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice showed him the Stringfellow Acid Pit toxic waste site.

It was one of the nation’s worst toxic waste sites, was added to the federal Superfund cleanup list, and still has a vast plume of chemically contaminated groundwater beneath it.

The oft-used approach of “capping” a toxic waste site rather than actually removing the contamination from the soil, for example, may no longer be sufficient.

For example, it is typically very difficult to prove that a cluster of cancer cases in a community was caused by exposure to pollution or a toxic waste site nearby.