Fascinating story about the cleanup of toxic sites in #Emeryville -- using cottage cheese & electrodes, of all things https://www.mercurynews.com/2023/03/23/cottage-cheese-injections-and-electric-shocks-emeryville-attempts-to-reclaim-toxic-soil/ #toxicsite #pollution #bayarea #EmeryvilleCA

Important read from @CalMatters: nearly half of California's toxic waste is shipped out of CA, often to states with weaker rules, in some cases to areas near Native American Reservations. This isn't right and needs to change! https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/01/california-toxic-waste-dumped-arizona-utah/ #toxicsite #hazardouswaste #environmentaljustice

Richmond is planning to build housing on a site that UC Berkeley's Dr Kristina Hill describes as a "world-class scary cornucopia of #chemicals, many of which will never degrade... It just seems to me on its face to be an injustice and, frankly, stupid to put housing on a #contaminated site."

But communities and regulators are pushing back!

Check out the full story from @kqednews ⤵️ https://www.kqed.org/science/1981077/state-regulators-scrutinize-climate-plan-for-controversial-richmond-housing-development

#richmond #richmondca #toxicsite #campusbay #environmentaljustice