Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Outside the Capital Hodding Carter segues to reports on toxic waste crisis.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
East Grey, Maine toxic waste site. Barrels tipped over. Signs for Hazardous Waste.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Men in protective suits remove barrels of hazardous waste.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Signs for Hazardous Waste and Contamination.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance, a woman, adversely effected by the site and who has since become an environmental crusader in the state of Maine, There s been some good come out of all of this , but this site itself just signifies to me a nightmare.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance, cooking for her family.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance, and associate get into car. Cathy and other walk along a road.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance, meeting with congressmen
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance, in Maine working with a man to expose toxic waste found in a factory he just acquired. They bring a scientist to tour the location with the local media.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance working with another woman who was told she could not drink or bathe in the water from her contaminated well. Interview with woman living by polluted water site
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance To listen to them talk. You know I can feel the same pain that I had. Inside me, I hurt for them and I hurt for me all over again.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
East Grey, Maine toxic waste site. Barrels tipped over. Signs for Hazardous Waste.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Young girls walk in a forest area.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance, You know hear that cry over and over again sometimes. And it makes me so mad to think that something like this is going on and I just don t want anyone else to have to go through that. At the same time, to have the girls being so dizzy that they re falling off chairs or when they re walking they lose their balance and go into the walls, this was all happening at the same time. It just seemed like nobody cared so nobody was going to find out why this was happening.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Young boy riding a toy cycle.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance, cooking for her family. Children eating sandwiches.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Senator George Mitchell (D - Maine), At that time the law included, and the present law still does include, compensation for some forms of property. And I could not comprehend, and I still cannot, why it is that a law should make it possible for the government to provide compensation to the owner of property and not to a person when both may be injured in the same release. It seemed to me a wrong set of values, more accurately a non-set of values.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Lee Thomas, Administrator, EPA, In this area, it presents major policy and legal problems, I think, because of the causation problems - the cause-effect linkages between the substances we are dealing with at these sites and the kind of illnesses they may cause. We have not been able to establish that cause-effect relationship.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz walking near a toxic waste site.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Cathy Heinz, environmental activist, President of Maine People s Alliance, (Nobody s got to prove it to me.) I went through it. I experienced it. I was a guinea pig. My children were the guinea pigs. That should be enough proof.
Capitol Journal - Superfund / Toxic Waste
Mother and child walk along the shore of a lake.