“Anderson had never given much thought to why the water in her Woburn home tasted and smelled so bad… She would soon learn Jimmy wasn’t the only child with leukemia in the area: There was an unexplainable cluster of cases throughout the neighborhood. …Employees from local industry sites routinely dumped chemicals with known carcinogens into the ground.”
EPA bans two cancer-causing chemicals used in everyday products
Michal Freedhoff, EPA assistant administrator for the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, said the bans will protect workers, consumers and residents from the chemical’s harms.
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