The results were cancers and birth defects for decades. It didn't need to be as long as it was - There was a lot of information repeated over and over with slight differences, and I just didn't want to hear them again.
Before the knowledge became public that the plant's Swiss masters were following a time-dishonored tradition: from originally polluting the Rhine River, next to polluting the Ohio River, and finally to polluting the Toms River. I thought this was a fascinating and well-written book. With the EPA being gutted in 2018 by the orange one, the odds of another Toms River, unfortunately, are increasing. excuse to keep turning a blind eye, and not looking at the NUMEROUS locations where similar events have occurred, because, it’s just too hard and too expensive to prove, and the corporations have way deeper pockets to obfuscate than the general public does.I would recommend this to anyone who lives in Toms River, or in an area where you suspect disease due to industrial waste teratogens. Toms River. That Furnicola never paid a dime of the $40/day he told the Reich’s he’d pay them to allow him to store the waste drums on their property is par for the sad and disturbing course of the story.
In an astonishing feat of investigative reporting, prize-winning journalist Dan Fagin recounts the 60-year saga of rampant pollution and inadequate oversight that made Toms River a cautionary example for fast-growing industrial towns from South Jersey to South China. That's why we've created an audio book service that lets us, and all of the other audio book lovers out there, take our favorite books anywhere. A seemingly high number of childhood cancer cases in the New Jersey town prompted the question, but there turned out to be no easy answer.
This is not a book you'll read in one sitting. “The teenagers had a grasp of death, and what the diagnosis meant,” Boornazian said. Overall, this book is about industrial waste polluting the environment in a lovely town, and people dying of cancer or other maladies, but no one will take responsibility. This is one of those complex environmental "who done it's" without a resolution of "who done it". Highly recommended. About Toms River. "A thrilling journey through the twists and turns of cancer epidemiology, "[Fagin] does a superb job of investigative research in documenting this story, one that is well worth preserving...highly recommended. I would love to read a Reader's Digest Condensed Version of this book because the people and the bottom line are what interested me most. It is a lesson story in the environmental ills of many communities. WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • Winner of The New York Public Library's Helen Bernstein Book Award • "A new classic of science reporting.
I love that Fagin doesn't limit his writing to the story at hand. Audiobooks allow that freedom. ", "Powerful, in-depth reporting that informs the public, shapes policy, and changes the world. So well done and presented but a long and arduous story to endure....a must read though.
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