What’s the Most Toxic Town in America?

And the trophy goes to…Picher, Oklahoma! Years of lead and zinc mining have left the town so polluted that “the soil is poisoned, the water runs orange and the air has been ruled unsafe,” according to MSNBC. The effects on residents include a variety of cancers and birth defects. Watch the full report here:

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September 9th, 2009 11:26 AM Tags: oklahoma, pollution
by Melissa Lafsky in Pollution Solutions (& Disasters) | 1 comments | RSS feed | Trackback >

One Response to “What’s the Most Toxic Town in America?”

1. Most Toxic Town in America – Picher, Oklahoma « OrganicAuthority.com – Organic Blog Says:
September 11th, 2009 at 7:51 pm

[...] live in New Jersey. So I just assumed it was somewhere around here. It isn’t. Picher, Oklahoma has the displeasure of being the most toxic town in the United States. Its polluted from years of lead mining. The water actually runs [...]

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