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How environmental health becomes a community dilemma

Living downwind from the refinery I have watched my neighbors get sick one by one but speaking up feels impossible when this company employs half the town.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Individual awareness of collective harm meets the social reality that economic dependence on the harmful entity silences resistance.

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“Where Are You with Environmental health — toxins and exposures?”

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