Saved by Nina Goodheart
Centralia, Pennsylvania
The "Bronx is Burning" Era
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The phenomenon you're describing has deep historical roots in the Bronx. During the 1970s and 1980s, the South Bronx experienced one of the most devastating periods of arson-for-insurance fraud in American urban history:
Scale of Historical Arson: In total, over 80% of the South Bronx was burned or abandoned between 1970
... See more. Measurements of lead in the ice of Greenland’s glaciers, which show a staggering increase in concentration during this period, bear witness to the volumes of poisonous smoke they belched out.8 The ore being smelted was silver: it has been estimated that for every ton of silver extracted over ten thousand tons of rock had to be quarried. It has
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Since those deadly fires four months ago, federal clean-up crews have cleared the sites of some 4,000 former properties around LA. But while they are removing the top 6 inches of soil due to the inevitable presence of contaminants, they are controversially not testing the soil that they leave behind—seemingly in an attempt to speed up their work.... See more