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Inside Marsha Coleman-Adebayo there's a streak of Rosa Parks. Certainly, her decade-long struggle to clean up the racially toxic atmosphere at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency could make history...
...fields are in dire need of rehabilitation; Sakhalin's north and much of Siberia are littered with rusting derricks ringed by porous labyrinths of old pipelines. Local environmentalists, pointing to the recent spill near the Galapagos Islands, worry about the potential damage to Sakhalin's rich ecosystem caused by toxic drilling waste...
...million pigs - the majority contracted to Smithfield - and their waste is kept in open-air lagoons, where it decomposes anaerobically before being sprayed onto fields. Those fields, the lawsuits charge, can't absorb the untreated waste - an alleged "witch's brew of nearly 400 volatile organic compounds and toxic poisons" - fast enough. Some of it rains down or seeps into waterways, where it causes algal blooms, fish kills and shellfish diseases, according to the suit...
...charge Smithfield with those horrors. But his lawyers claim that environmental lawbreaking is an "integral component of [Smithfield's] institutional culture." In 1997 a U.S. district court judge fined Smithfield $12.6 million for thousands of Clean Water Act violations; in another case, a manager pled guilty to illegally dumping toxic wastewater into the Pagan River; the state of Virginia also has a suit pending against the company alleging more than 22,000 discharge and pollution violations from...
...Rudenstine said at the meeting that the funds were needed to buy out easements, remove toxic waste and lay a basic infrastructure on the land...