Update, January 26, 2015: Residents of Glendive, Montana, have been told their water is once again safe to drink. Benzene, a cancer-causing ingredient in crude oil that has killed countless workers and contaminated communities around the United States, is back in the news. Authorities found the chemical at elevated levels in a municipal drinking water […]
Category: Exposed: Decades of denial on poisons
For more than half a century, deadly chemicals such as benzene, asbestos and vinyl chloride have taken an unspeakable and largely preventable human toll. The companies that made or used these chemicals in many cases knew they were dangerous long before they told workers or the general public.
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