You may or may not remember the horror felt nationwide back in the late 1970s over the decades some chemical companies spent creating a toxic mattress of waste blanketing the Love Canal neighborhood of Niagra Falls, New York.
And now I just read some disturbing news about a lawsuit some 1,000 upstate New York residents filed against IBM for dumping industrial solvents over several decades time in and around the village of Endicott. According to that brief report, the toxic fumes from the dumping was discovered as early as 1979 — but if I understand what I read, the dumping continued until 2002?
I’m no rocket scientist, but wouldn’t it seem sensible to have halted the dumping and done something about the problem starting in 1979? Maybe they did, and the story was mis-written or I misread it?
Ah, well, what do I know? I’m just a guy who reads the papers.
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