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Ceilings here. she just liked to sit on the porch. meanwhile, diane s cancer had returned. and it was worse than before. she died on october 6th, 2005. diane prince was 59 years old. it would seem, anyway, they re more protective of the almighty dollar than human health. the community in mossville seems like it had lost their god given right to human health. i mean, nobody cares. nobody cares, as long as they are not seemingly directly affected by what they do. they don t worry about it. they re not concerned about it. it s not us. it is those poor people in ....
put it down just a little bit on your side. dorothy felix and her friends in the local environmental group mossville environmental action now were outraged, and they decided to launch their own investigation. their lead detective, wilma subra. subra is a chemist who has made it her life s mission to help places like mossville. other than sulfur smell, what kind of smell do you have in your water? communities across the united states and the world now ask her for help. subra used to work for government agencies and companies testing for toxic chemicals but they didn t let her tell the local people what she found and subra didn t like that. in 1981, i said, okay, it s time for me to do this on behalf of the communities. she received the macarthur genius grant for her work in 1999 and gotten her share of threats. i get harassed all the time. what happens? my office got broken into a large number of times. ....
I think she enjoyed the high ceilings here. she just liked to sit on the porch. meanwhile, diane s cancer had returned. and it was worse than before. she died on october 6th, 2005. diane prince was 59 years old. it would seem, anyway, they re more protective of the almighty dollar than human health. the community in mossville seems like it had lost their god given right to human health. i mean, nobody cares. nobody cares, as long as they are not seemingly directly affected by what they do. they don t worry about it. they re not concerned about it. it s not us. it is those poor people in mossville. ....
Still be toxic, even if this were 130,000 swimming pools. when the dioxin is being released on an ongoing basis, you keep bioaccumulating that in your body. you will hear a lot more about subra s detective work in mossville. first, dioxin, you may know more about them than you think. agent orange contained dioxins. american soldiers in vietnam, used agent orange, it is an herbicide that got its name because of the orange stripes on the storage barrels, dioxin was an unwanted impurity in the production process. the u.s. military used the defoliant to clear away thick jungle and reveal the viet cong forces. agent orange had another effect. in the decade that followed, soldiers exposed to agent orange were more likely to develop a range of cancers and possibly parkinson s disease, die be diabetes, hypertension and heart disease. that brings us back to ....
this is vinyl pvc pipe. allen blakey, a spokesman for the vinyl industry, says what happened was the exception, not the rule. in most instances, the communities are doing very well, living right next door to the plants and the relationships are generally good. authorities never accused condea vista of doing anything illegal but the underground contamination did not go over well in mossville. residents of this mossville neighborhood were upset. over 1,000 banded together to file a groundwater contamination class action lawsuit. they won that lawsuit but something else happened here as well. residents over here, these close-knit neighbors all started to scatter, fled the pollution, leaving this neighborhood nearly abandoned, and part of mossville s history was lost for good. i can t bring my children back here and say, this is where momma grew up at, this where is you were born, a house i brought you in, i can t do that anymore because it just doesn t exist anymore. i think it ....