Part 2: Foot Dragging Produces Dioxin Delays
From: The Environment Report
Series: Dioxin Delays
Length: 03:17
The State of Michigan, the U-S Environmental Protection Agency and Dow Chemical are negotiating an agreement to clean up dioxin pollution in towns, two rivers, and Lake Huron.
The pollution is largely from a Dow chemical plant in Midland, Michigan. The government worries the pollution poses a risk of cancer and other health problems, and it's been found in fish, on property, and in the blood of some people there. Residents are asking why it's taken so long to get cleaned up, so we had Shawn Allee look for an answer.
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The State of Michigan, the U-S Environmental Protection Agency and Dow Chemical are negotiating an agreement to clean up dioxin pollution in towns, two rivers, and Lake Huron.
The pollution is largely from a Dow chemical plant in Midland, Michigan. The government worries the pollution poses a risk of cancer and other health problems, and it's been found in fish, on property, and in the blood of some people there. Residents are asking why it's taken so long to get cleaned up, so we had Shawn Allee look for an answer.
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The State of Michigan, the U-S Environmental Protection Agency and Dow Chemical are negotiating an agreement to clean up dioxin pollution in towns, two rivers, and Lake Huron.
The pollution is largely from a Dow chemical plant in Midland, Michigan.
The government worries the pollution poses a risk of cancer and other health problems, and it's been found in fish, on property, and in the blood of some people there.
Residents are asking why it's taken so long to get cleaned up, so we had Shawn Allee look for an answer.
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If you want to see an environmentalist kinda loose his cool - talk to James Clift of the Michigan Environmental Council.
And bring up dioxin pollution.
Clift: Um, it's ... people are think, frustrated. My entire career of working environmental protection in Michigan, this has been an issue. I've been doing this for over twenty years, and from day one I've been...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:The State of Michigan, the U-S Environmental Protection Agency and Dow Chemical are negotiating an agreement to clean up dioxin pollution in towns, two rivers, and Lake Huron. The pollution is largely from a Dow chemical plant in Midland, Michigan. The government worries the pollution poses a risk of cancer and other health problems, and it's been found in fish, on property, and in the blood of some people there. Residents are asking why it's taken so long to get cleaned up. In the second part of a series on Dow and dioxin - reporter Shawn Allee went looking for an answer:
OUTRO:Host Tag: Tomorrow we continue our series on Dow and dioxin by talking with the people who live in the area.
