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Times Beach
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Times Beach
A city in Missouri that was abandoned by order of the EPA in 1983, when dangerously high levels of dioxins were identified in the water and soil, resulting from the spraying of dioxin-tainted oils—to control dust on the roads and highways
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In summer months, hikers, bikers, and families looking for a nice place for a picnic visit the park where Times Beach, Missouri, used to be.
The dioxin debate: the EPA maintains that dioxin is one of the most ... by Behreandt, Dennis / The New American
In the 1980s, a flood washed dioxin-laced oil onto the working class town of Times Beach, Missouri.
Should the Democratic Party nominate a presidential candidate in 2004? by Fitz, Don / Synthesis/Regeneration
The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) reassessment of the dangers of dioxin, the chemical that shuttered Times Beach, Missouri in 1982 and earlier rained over Vietnam in the defoliant called Agent Orange, calculates that the average American carries some 40 to 60 parts per trillion of dioxin compounds in our tissues, a level of exposure that, while minute, is "very near the levels expected to cause adverse health effects.
Toxic shock: the environment-cancer connection by Weilbacher, Mike / E
 
 
 
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