"By 1990, the EPA had tallied up 32,645 sites of past chemical waste dumping in need of cleanup. Some of these are actual waste landfills, but many are former manufacturing sites where drums full of chemicals have been simply abandoned. The names of the most notorious appear on the EPS's National Priorities List. These are the so-called Superfund sites, names for the super fund of money put together by Congress in 1980 to clean them up. In 2009, the Superfund list contained 1,331 sites."

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Source : Sandra Steingraber (2010). “Living Downstream: An Ecologist's Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment”, p.69, Da Capo Press

Sandra Steingraber

#Past Quotes #Names Quotes #Priorities Quotes

“It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”

Source : Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.433, Penguin
“Let's pray for whole world that there be brotherhood. I hope this journey of the church we begin today is fruitful for evangelization.”
“How can one know anything at all about people?”
“I think Washington, in general, is dysfunctional. I think it's high time we put people in Congress who were not beholden to their party, and not beholden to anything but the people who they live around and grew up around, in my case.”
“After becoming pregnant, I had to makeover my pantry just a little to make the proper adjustments to support the baby. I've found some staples that will stick around after the baby is here, too.”
“I was in a place where nobody knew my heart even a little bit.”

Source : Carol Rifka Brunt (2012). “Tell the Wolves I'm Home”, p.25, Pan Macmillan
“Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.”
“If a reporter doesn't like the person he's writing about, it shows up in his article.”

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