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California Toxics: Out of state, out of mind | Calmatters Investigations

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US Naval Base Hazardous Landfill Restoration Project -  Ventura County, Pt. Mugu ; US Navy ; Link California Toxics:  Out of State, Out of Mind (Robert Lewis, CalMatters ; January 25, 2023) https://calmatters.org/environment/2023/01/california-toxic-waste-dumped-arizona-utah/ California's E-Waste ending up in Toxic Mountain of Junk in Arizona ( CBS Bay Area News ; June 12, 2014) https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/pollution-ground-dlubak-glass-california-electronic-waste-mountain-toxic-junk-arizona-yuma-recycling-recycler-dumping-electronics-garbage-394227/ Also... Compound Injustice:. PFAS may concentrate over time in landfills near the Penobscot Indian Reservation (Marina SCHAUFFLER, The Maine Monitor ; September 10, 2022) https://www.themainemonitor.org/compound-injustice-pfas-may-concentrate-over-time-in-landfills-near-the-penobscot-indian-reservation/ The Lasting Harms of Toxic Exposure to Native American Communities (Sanjana MANJESHWAR, UC Berkeley P...

Safeguarding Treatment for the Restoration of Ecosystems from Abandoned Mines (STREAM) Act...

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Acid Mine Drainage from a Metallic Sulfide Mine , Kuzey GUNESLI ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link Bill to clean up water pollution from abandoned mines passes Congress (Staff,  The News-Item.com ; December 23, 2022) https://www.newsitem.com/news/local/bill-to-clean-up-water-pollution-from-abandoned-mines-passes-congress/article_56329f85-2716-5e6d-b848-f02ca11759fe.html Also... One Pager: STREAM Act - Senator Bob Casey https://www.casey.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2022.03.29%20STREAM%20Act%20One-pagerv2.pdf AMD Conceptual Model , Microbialmatt ; CC BY-SA 4.0 , Link