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OPINION: Wisconsin Incinerator's Health Impact Unacceptable.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, June, 2002
By Winona LaDuke, Indian Country Today, Oneida, N.Y. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jun. 24--Hearings are underway on the Wisconsin French Island Incinerator. The public health impact internationally of this incinerator is significant. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should shut down the incinerator because of its long-term impact on public health internationally. The French Island incinerator's dioxin and that of Xcel's Red Wing incinerator are appearing in the breast milk of women thousands of miles away, endangering their health, and the health of their children. That is an unacceptable price to pay.
I have just finished breastfeeding my third child. After two years, that...
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