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Dear friends, DDT is a pesticide that's so toxic and dangerous, it kills birds and fish and even harms humans' health too. That's why, thankfully, the U.S. banned it back in 1972. But we've since found out that the biggest manufacturer of DDT in the nation disposed of the poisonous chemical by simply chucking thousands of barrels of it out into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles. Even worse, when the barrels refused to sink, this company actually punctured holes into them, meaning they've been slowly leaking out toxic sludge for decades. DDT is so indestructible that disposing of it was always a huge problem — but that doesn't make it okay to take poisonous shortcuts. This corporation must have known that, because they purposefully timed their barrel-dumps in the middle of the night. The waste was dropped so deep into the ocean that scientists didn't even have the technology to find the evidence until 2011. By this point, experts estimate polluters may well have dumped half a million of these oozing, deadly barrels. And the resulting DDT leakage has been consistently making its way up the food chain, as larger and larger animals consume the little creatures living in this sludge. Yet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, under Trump's command, doesn't want to do anything about these contaminants, seeming content to just let them sit there. Sign the petition to demand the EPA do its job and clean up this toxic mess! Thank you for all that you do,
P.S. This is not the first time a massive toxic dump has happened right off the U.S. coast. And usually, no one ever cleans the poisonous mess up. Demand the EPA begin a clean up operation right now! |
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