Opinion: You thought the oil spill was bad? In L.A., toxic waste is everywhere
Between Los Angeles’ oil-pumping past and its half-century-plus as the factory of the world war and the Cold War, we have spilled and spread so much chemical poison into the earth beneath our freeways and our feet that by rights each of us should have two heads. Imagine what the L.A. landscape would look like if places where the soil or water had been poisoned were flagged … In some parts of L.A., large areas would be marked with a skull-and-crossbones sign alerting you that toxic waste had been manufactured or dumped there over generations, befouling the soil, befouling the groundwater …
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