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Detroit Free Press    

Lake Superior toxin needs a global  solution 

BY MELVIN J. VISSER AND DAVE DEMPSEY • August 2, 2009  
A recent report co-authored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency  
represents a threat to, not a protection of, our health and environment. 
 

In "State of the Great Lakes 2009 Highlights," which  was issued June 23, 
the EPA and Environment Canada claim that concentrations of  persistent 
organic pollutants such as PCBs and the pesticides we banned in the  1970s and 
'80s continue to decrease. This is true only if the most toxic  situation in 
the Great Lakes, Lake Superior's toxaphene pollution, is  ignored.

Toxaphene, a vile mixture of 670 chlorinated 
 
 
 
 
 
 
_http://freep.com/article/20090802/OPINION02/908020452/Lake-Superior-toxin-n
eeds-a-global-solution_ 
(http://freep.com/article/20090802/OPINION02/908020452/Lake-Superior-toxin-needs-a-global-solution) 
 
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