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...armed forces, whose installations cover 25.6 million acres of America, have for decades allowed the leakage of oil and other fuels, drained toxic chemicals into waterways, dumped lethal sludge at unlined landfills and littered the country with unexploded shells and bombs. Military bases often sit astride local water sources, and some neighboring towns have detected higher incidences of tumors, cancer and birth defects. "Each of the military services is guilty," says Seth Shulman, author of The Threat at Home: Confronting the Toxic Legacy of the U.S. Military. "From coast to coast, there's an unbroken seam of toxic time bombs...
...Montana and Idaho, wolf populations have been kept low by disease, illegal poisonings and lethal encounters with cars. But Yellowstone could be a promised land. The 930,000-hectare (2.3 million-acre) park is surrounded by millions of hectares of wilderness, a panoramic spread of high plateaus, broad river valleys and forests that teem with elk and other wolf food. Abundant grizzly bears keep backpackers to a minimum. Hunters are allowed to move through the wilderness areas adjoining the park only during five weeks each fall, and killing a wolf could bring high fines and imprisonment...
...chorus of complaints is sure to follow the proposal of any "sin tax," designed to increase the price of such products as cigarettes and alcohol. But when the status quo facilitates destructive and often lethal behavior, we don't think such measures are that...
...surprised at the astounding number of toxic waste sites in Massachusetts: the state's Department of Environmental Protection lists approximately 2,700 confirmed sites and 2,500 suspected ones. The Cambridge-Boston area alone is home to several hundred toxic sites. In Woburn, about 30 minutes from Cambridge, several lethal toxics-related cases of leukemia among children were reported a few years ago. In Leominster (about 90 minutes away), in an even more publicized case, parents of over 100 autistic children claimed toxics as the cause of their children's disabilities. More generally, over 100 towns in the state have...
...want to talk about Black rage and the present crisis," he said, citing a "lethal linkage" between economic decline, cultural decay and political lethargy...