Pinkwashing: The environmental links to breast cancer and what can be done about it
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A spill of chemicals from fifty years ago from the General Chemical hazardous waste transfer station in Framingham has yet to be cleaned up and is migrating under homes. More recently they were caught pumping TCE-laced water directly into the neighborhood's street. Now residents fight back.
Our work has paid off. The Mt. Tom coal plant is one of the most egregious polluters in Massachusetts. It has averaged almost one air pollution violation a day for the last five years! Now it looks like Mt. Tom is near retirement.
Residents, fed up with horrendous air pollution from a nearby waste facility have been fighting back for a year - and won this week.
Citizens for a Green Scarborough celebrate a winning vote to ban the use of synthetic chemicals on town land. The World Bank estimates each year 350,000 people die from pesticide poisoning.
A spill of chemicals from fifty years ago from the General Chemical hazardous waste transfer station in Framingham has yet to be cleaned up and is migrating under homes. More recently they were caught pumping TCE-laced water directly into the neighborhood's street. Now residents fight back.
Since 1987, Toxics Action Center organizers have worked side by side with more than 625 communities across New England to clean up hazardous waste sites, reduce industrial pollution, curb pesticide use, ensure healthy land use, replace dangerous chemicals with safer alternatives, and oppose dangerous waste, energy, and industrial facilities. We work on issues where environmental pollution threats are endangering our health.
Registration for our 25th Annual Southern New England Conference is now open! Join us on March 3rd at Northeastern University for a celebration of twenty-five years of environmental organizing victories, and get energized for the next twenty-five!
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