In the 1930s and 1940s people and businesses did not pay a lot of attention to what happened to toxic chemicals produced during industrial processes. While there have long been regulations for the handling of these dangerous chemicals, enforcement of these laws was virtually nonexistent or haphazard at best. Large corporations, such as Hooker Chemical [...]
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Texas A&M University in College Station Texas,1 has been conducting research into so-called “select agents,” i.e. biological agents that the government thinks can be turned into biological weapons. The university’s efforts are part of an $18 billion federal program to develop vaccines. On April 20, 2007 the Centers for Disease Control — the CDC — [...] The federal government wants to do nuclear weapons testing and bio-warfare agent experimentation on Site 300, near the city of Tracy, California. Tracy, 19 miles from Livermore, home of the Lawrence Livermore National Lab, is in the northern part of California’s San Joaquin Valley, some of the world’s most fertile farmland. It is a fast-growing [...] We’ve made a few improvements to make it easier to virtually visit the places we’ve written about. You can now browse all Sprol articles visually on a map in two different ways. Visit the Sprol World Map, and via a Google Maps mashup, you can see all of the articles we’ve published so far right [...] These kids were all born after Chernobyl, after Three Mile Island, and after atmospheric [nuclear bomb] testing. |
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