Toxic Sludge in New Orleans

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"Government officials have minimized the public health threat in New Orleans, the environmental group said. Louisiana officials have said some toxic contaminants have been found only on golf courses that use pesticides containing arsenic, but the NRDC report includes maps detailing dozens of high arsenic levels taken across wide swaths of the urban area."

" 'State and some federal officials have been consistently denying there are any significant risks from the toxic mud that has spread across the city,' said Erik Olson, a senior NRDC lawyer. 'The data they themselves have collected show that, to the contrary, there are significant risks from arsenic and toxic chemicals that have blanketed much of New Orleans.' "

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