If that seems a little too authoritarian, understand that this is how most of the United States was originally built. Only, it wasn’t government; it was trading monopolies and railroad companies. For the latter, the railroad would acquire land for a town where they intended to put a train stop. As they developed the rail line, they would sell the l

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Unfortunately for miners, protective measures were not implemented until long after the discovery of the hazards associated with uranium mining, as Dr Rosalie Bertell PhD explains in her book entitled No Immediate Danger, “The danger of uranium mining had been known for a hundred years before 1945, yet it took until 1967, with many unnecessary mine

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Although lead had been known to be toxic ‘since antiquity’, the decision to add it to motor fuel clearly ignored this fact, but the dangers from inhaling leaded fumes soon became apparent, as Dr Needleman explains, “When tetraethyl lead (TEL) was first produced for use as a motor fuel additive in 1925, workers at all three operating plants began to

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