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Almost 600 Louisiana sites with toxic chemicals lie in Hurricane Ida's path
- thghtihadanacct 5y agoWell, on the bright side, after enough Cat 5's it will be one huge superfund site and we can just ignore all of it at once.
- amelius 5y agoYou mean a site the size of Louisiana.
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- edoceo 5y agoAnd parts of TX and MS
- PostThisTooFast 5y agoAnd all really, really fat.
- hanniabu 5y agoWouldn't be surprised if we discovered they actually import pollution before events like this to avoid disposal fees and be able to claim innocence.
- mycall 5y agoThis is the default if nobody calls 3M to stop it from bleeding out.
- robbedpeter 5y agohttps://youtu.be/8rxUHD2CAu8 https://youtu.be/8rxUHD2CAu8
- nikkinana 5y agoThat's a gas.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoIsn't this the case for just about every hurricane that goes through Louisiana? How many are 'new' since the last major hurricane?
- bamboozled 5y agoI don’t think I really see the point here. It’s an issue regardless of how many hurricanes go through. Maybe you’re saying it’s not news? But it’s a problem worth highlighting.
- NtochkaNzvanova 5y agoIt's political advocacy disguised as news. And like 95% of news today, it's fear/outrage journalism: "here's something you should be worried/angry about, even though you can't do anything about it".
- pm90 5y agoI’m not sure if there was ever a time when news was mostly actionable? If a hurricane is barreling down through your countries’ petrochemical heartland, I think it’s totally fair for journalists to focus on this fact. There were similar reports when Harvey hit Houston.
- addicted 5y agoLiterally every sentence in your comment is wrong. 1) Political advocacy? What exactly political are they advocating? They are laying down facts with the scientist saying people need to be aware of the risks so they can make personal decisions and then they devote as much space to the companies whose toxic waste is stored to talk about how they expect everything to hold up. 2) Its obviously news that a massive storm might pass a huge number of toxic sites that might potentially poison your wastewater or leave toxic wastes literally on your homes, something that has happened before. 3) There’s a lot people can do about stuff like this. The only reason you aren’t breathing much more toxic air, aren’t consuming much more toxic food, probably not getting doused by acid rain every year, not inhaling lead from cars around you, not inhaling lead from the walls in your home, not dying of asbestos poisoning when a wall gets damaged, etc is because news has made people aware of these issues which have then led to changes.
- jliptzin 5y agoI guess it's good that all those chemicals are stored near the sea, as supposed to further upstream where it would just filter downstream into who knows how many communities.