"Imagine if your parents were a toxic waste site," Durvasula says.
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The plants perch atop the roof of a film production studio in the Greenpoint section of Brooklyn, beside a Superfund toxic-waste site.
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"Gene was indefatigable in pursuing the cleanup of the most notorious toxic waste site in the world," Mr. Abrams said on Monday in an email.
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Until recently, the land was a toxic-waste site, and the company's equipment occupies a long, barnlike building that, for many years, was used to process contaminated water.
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Analysts point to the investment that Wynn made to recover the property, once a toxic waste site, as well as the 4,000 union jobs the project created for construction.
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But a few years later, he found himself channeling his art into a simple concept that he hopes will withstand centuries and warn future people (and extraterrestrials) away from the toxic waste site.
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After the shipyard closed, it was declared a "superfund" site — a toxic-waste site designation that allows the US Environmental Protection Agency to force parties responsible to perform cleanups or reimburse the government to do the work.
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Opposition to removing a major toxic waste site along the San Jacinto River in Texas was funded in part by Waste Management, a national comprehensive waste company which has been ordered by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to pay up to $115 million to clean up the site.
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More recent projects demonstrate the current direction of design, like Seattle's Gas Works Park, where in 1975 a toxic waste site was converted into a green space designed by Richard Haag that guarded its old industrial towers, and New York's High Line, where abandoned elevated train tracks were transformed into a green walkway.
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The United States Department of Defense classifies Antigo Air Force Station as a toxic waste site of high concern, involving both toxins and radiation.
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Sarov, Batia, and peers at Ben Gurion University: "Major congenital malformations and residential proximity to a regional industrial park including a national toxic waste site: An ecological study;" Environmental Health: A Global Access Science Source 2006, 5:8; Bentov et al., licensee BioMed Central Ltd.
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The PRR's old catenary was dismantled in the 1980s. The facility was identified as a toxic waste site in 1987. The RF&P; finally decommissioned it in 1989. Plans for rehabilitation and redevelopment of the land have been a source of intense debate since then.
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Emblem of the 676th Radar Squadron Antigo Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located south- southwest of Antigo, Wisconsin. It was closed in 1977 and is currently classified as a high risk toxic waste site involving groundwater, sediment, soil and surface water.
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The south abutment was in an area polluted by a coal gas processing plant and a facility for storing and processing petroleum products. These uses effectively created a toxic waste site under the bridge, leading to a lawsuit and the removal of the contaminated soil. No relationship has been claimed between these previous uses and the bridge failure.
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Valley of the Drums, a toxic waste site in Kentucky, United States, 1980. Toxic waste is any unwanted material in all forms that can cause harm (e.g. by being inhaled, swallowed, or absorbed through the skin). Many of today's household products such as televisions, computers and phones contain toxic chemicals that can pollute the air and contaminate soil and water.
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The EPA declared Picher to be one of the most toxic areas in the United States."Pollution busts Okla. mining town" Associated Press (c/o NBC News), 12 May 2008Juozapavicius, Justin "Oklahoma Town Is Toxic Waste Site" Associated Press - (c/o San Francisco Chronicle, 27 February 2007 The Quapaw Tribe of Oklahoma originally owned the area and leased property to mining companies. Government rules restricted many Quapaw landowners from realizing money from royalties, which companies paid on these leases.
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Amazing Spider-Man Annual #23 (1989). Marvel Comics The Abomination's mental faculties eventually return and the Abomination reappears in the "Countdown" storyline as a pawn of another Hulk foe, the Leader. The Abomination is sent to a toxic waste site to collect samples, and encounters the gray version of the Hulk again, who is outmatched and also weak due to being poisoned. The Hulk, however, throws the Abomination into toxic waste that partially dissolves and horribly scars the Abomination.
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In California the government also decided to allow pollution in vulnerable communities. The effect of environmental racism is seen in the health data which shows that African Americans are three times more likely to die from asthma. Three out of five African Americans live in a community with a least one toxic waste site. On average it takes twenty percent longer for toxic sites in minority community towns to be placed on the national priority list than white areas.
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The Valley of the Drums is a toxic waste site in northern Bullitt County, Kentucky, near Louisville, named after the waste-containing drums strewn across the area. Contaminants include xylene, methyl ethyl ketone, methylene chloride, acetone, phthalates, anthracene, toluene, fluoranthene, alkyl benzene, vinyl chloride, dichloroethylene, and aliphatic acids. EPA report on the A. L. TAYLOR SITE - page 5 It is known as one of the primary motivations for the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, or Superfund Act of 1980.
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USCG archive photo - Front Range Light Nearby Pilot Island and Plum Island were two of four Wisconsin properties turned over by the U.S. Coast Guard to the United States Bureau of Land Management. Large expenses for toxic waste-site environmental remediation were an impediment to transfers and restoration of the Plum Island site.D'Entremont, Jeremy, Islands at Death's Door (October, 2003) Lighthouse Digest. Both islands were finally transferred to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in 2007 and became part of the Green Bay National Wildlife Refuge.
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The Valley of the Drums is a 23-acre (9.3 hectare) toxic waste site in Brooks, Kentucky in northern Bullitt County, near Louisville. It became a collection point for toxic wastes starting sometime in the 1960s. It caught the attention of state officials when some of the drums caught fire and burned for more than a week in 1966. At that time there were no laws to address the storage or containment of toxic wastes, and the site continued to be unregulated for another decade.
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As a council member, she pushed to clean up a toxic waste site and created three Economic Empowerment Zones that drew new businesses to areas on Bailey Avenue, Kensington Avenue and Main Street. In 2004, Betty Jean Grant was elected to the Buffalo Public School Board of Education, representing the Ferry District. She was elected to the Erie County Legislature in 2007 and was re-elected in 2009, 2011, 2013 and 2015. In 2012, she began serving as Chair of the Erie County Legislature after both her Democratic and Republican colleagues unanimously voted for her.
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Romuald Roman is a graduate of the Agricultural University of Krakow (1971) and Temple University in Philadelphia, PA, USA. Mountain- climber, teacher, skier, manager in the EPA (where he served as an expert on applied industrial toxicity), UN consultant in Poland and Romania. Took part in the project to clean up Neville Island, which had been a toxic waste site for Pittsburgh industrial plants. He writes short stories, vignettes, and essays based on his reminiscences of life in Poland decades ago (including his early days in Zakopane) and on his personal impressions of America after emigrating there in the 1980s.
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About 25% of the original grassland remains (less than 10% in Canada) and continues to decrease due to the rapid growth of the Rockies' population. Expansion of cities in both Montana and Alberta is removing habitat and blocking the movements of native species including grizzly bears, elk, mule deer and others. Growth is most intense in southwestern Montana, specifically in the Bitterroot Valley around Missoula and the area just north of Yellowstone National Park along the Gallatin River, namely in Bozeman and the resort town of Big Sky, and the Yellowstone River in Paradise Valley. The area contains the largest and most expensive Superfund toxic waste site in the United States.
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President and Mrs. Reagan let it be known There is some feeling in the White House that [the President] should not be on a million-dollar yacht when he has to cut programs such as food stamps and such. Although, Reagan preferred to appear on horseback, he authorized his Cabinet's use of Sequoia. During an August 1982 luncheon aboard Sequoia, E.P.A. administrator Anne Gorsuch Burford (mother of future Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch) announced to eight Reagan Administration officials, she was holding back Federal funds to clean up a toxic waste site near Los Angeles to avoid helping the Senate campaign of former California Gov.
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Construction of the Green Line past Anacostia station was complicated by the discovery of a potential toxic waste site in the path of the subway. In June 1991, WMATA discovered that the District of Columbia had dumped 426,000 tons of possibly hazardous incinerator bottom ash in an unused exposed culvert along the subway's potential path near St. Elizabeth's Hospital between 1977 and 1989. The city continued to dump the ash at the site for four years after it learned that WMATA planned to use the site for the Green Line. Experts were concerned that the ash dump contained pockets of methane gas and soluble acid, which would make the site unusable by Metrorail.
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Not only did the protest that happened in Warren County impact the community itself, but it emerged as the birthplace of many environmental justice studies in regard to hazardous waste facilities being placed in minority communities. Without the protests and displeasures that the African Americans voiced in Warren County, the United Church of Christ would not have studied the implicit bias found while examining where hazardous waste facilities were placed all over the United States. Five years later, the United Church of Christ published a report that race was the most significant factor in determining where hazardous waste facilities would be placed. Finding 3 out of every 5 African Americans and Hispanics live in a community housing a toxic waste site.
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The mall has the only LEED certified West Elm that also provides some of its own solar energy, with a grass roof to provide habitat for insects, and substantial use of sky lights to reduce energy use. The mall is built on an Ohlone Indian burial ground and shellmound Emeryville replaces historic shellmound with street mall, by Mary Spicuzza, Berkeley Daily Planet, March 16, 2002, access date 04-03-2009 and former toxic waste site. Since 2001 there has been a "don't buy anything day" hosted at the site by descendants of the Ohlones that believe the site has desecrated the resting place of their ancestors.Friday: Buy Nothing Day Protest at Emeryville's "Bay Street Mall", Indy News, 25-11-2006, access date 04-03-2009MALL BUILT ATOP BURIAL GROUND FACES RALLY, AMERICAN INDIAN GROUP SAYS BAY STREET CENTER WAS BUILT ON TOP OF CEMETERY THAT HAS OHLONE REMAINS, Contra Costa Times 06-11-2005, access date 04-03-2009 In 2010 the mall began to attract tourists to a Christmas tree made out of 84 shopping carts.
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