I have the honor of living a very short distance from the USA’s first Superfund site and the reason the EPA exists! The official name is “Tar Creek”, look it up, it’ll rustle your jimmies.
Tar Creek Superfund site is a United States Superfund site, declared in 1983
I cannot find an exact date, but it is possible this story line is referencing Tar Creek.
Edit: nope, it probably is this in Chicago
Dow Plant Pollutes River, EPA Says
March 31, 1983
CHICAGO
– Potentially dangerous levels of dioxin are being released into Michigan’s Tittabawassee River in waste water from a Dow Chemical Co. plant, the Environmental Protection Agency concluded in a preliminary report released yesterday.
“This is going to become the ticking bomb for human beings if it is accumulated over years and years,” EPA Region 5 Administrator Valdas Adamkus told a news conference.
“Tar Creek”, look it up, it’ll rustle your jimmies.
Yikes, after reading about a lot of shizzle like that over the years, I have a feeling I know how awful that was.
the reason the EPA exists
Btw, I seem to recall that it was mounting pollution across the States, plus efforts by activists like Ralph Nader that also contributed to the EPA’s formation, despite a right-wing scoundrel being a POTUS at the time.
I have the honor of living a very short distance from the USA’s first Superfund site and the reason the EPA exists! The official name is “Tar Creek”, look it up, it’ll rustle your jimmies.
I can’t remember what its like to live with un-rustled jimmies
Me neither, friend.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tar_Creek_Superfund_site
I cannot find an exact date, but it is possible this story line is referencing Tar Creek.
Edit: nope, it probably is this in Chicago
https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1983/04/01/dow-plant-pollutes-river-epa-says/774c1c59-b449-429d-92a4-8e86bcbd090d/
I have to drive through it whenever I drive south. There aren’t enough cabin air filters in the world…
Yikes, after reading about a lot of shizzle like that over the years, I have a feeling I know how awful that was.
Btw, I seem to recall that it was mounting pollution across the States, plus efforts by activists like Ralph Nader that also contributed to the EPA’s formation, despite a right-wing scoundrel being a POTUS at the time.