The Times Beach Disaster: Dioxins and Uninhabitability

This chapter discusses the environmental disaster in Times Beach, Missouri, caused by dioxin contamination from spraying waste oil to suppress dust. It explores the severe health issues, legal ramifications, cleanup efforts, and the transformation of the site into a state park.

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Oil: it's a ubiquitous substance humans have been relying on for longer than you might think. We cook with it, we moisturize with it, we run machines with it - it keeps slipping into places we least expect to find it, for good and for ill...

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[The Gauntlet]

Original Crisco oil plant

Company that produces Crisco

Process to turn liquid oil into solid

Fair Packaging and Labeling Act decade

Upton Sinclair book

Two oils in modern Crisco

Kream Krisp vs. Crisco

[Trivia Question]