What Would Rachel Say?Promoting a culture of sentinel lions. |
by Mark Schapiro
"A compelling wake-up call from deep inside the trenches. Europe is overtaking us in environmental health and safety regulations, while Americans are being sold out by their own government. This story desperately needs to be told, and Mark Schapiro is just the one to tell it."
-- David Wirth, Professor of Law and Director of International Programs, Boston College Law School
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How is a hunting license like a pollution permit? At the Toxics Action Conference on March 24, 2007, keynote speaker Lois Gibbs compared hunting licenses to the pollution permits that allow corporations to contaminate our air, water, and food. " When you get a hunting license," she noted, " you are limited to certain times and places, and you are never allowed to kill the babies. In contrast, when a corporation gets a permit to pollute from the federal or state government, it is a perpetual toxic release, and our babies are the first and the worst affected ."
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