Monsanto Pollution: The Story Of Anniston, AL
4 January 2002 - 4:00am
Decades of concealed pollution by corporate giant devastated Anniston, AL.
"n 1996, Mims found out that her neighborhood, and her bloodstream, was saturated with PCBs. Now her community is emptying out, reprising in slow motion the evacuations of Love Canal, N.Y., and Times Beach, Mo.And now she wonders: Did PCBs have something to do with six of her 13 siblings dying in childhood?"
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The Washington Post, January 1, 2002
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