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Issues
Our modern world is beset with a great smorgasbord of contaminants: smog in our skies, pesticides on our food, hormones in our meat, fertilizer in our rivers, gasoline seeping slowly into our water supplies. This has caused debilitating and expensive health problems that impact the poor and minorities disproportionately. It has also damaged wildlife and recreational opportunities.
Senior Editor Tom Turner recounts a David-and-Goliath struggle between impoverished African-American people in rural Louisiana and a mighty international consortium of government agencies and private companies bent on siting a uranium enrichment plant in their midst.
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A plan to export obsolete military ships to England for scrapping is stopped.
An industry attempt to overturn tough ozone regulations is rejected by the DC Court of Appeals.
