viernes, 1 de septiembre de 2017

Harvey Victims Face Toxic Pollution as Hurricane Recovery Begins

Harvey Victims Face Toxic Pollution as Hurricane Recovery Begins

 “All that water contains a toxic soup of chemicals steaming there in the
heat and surrounding people’s homes and going into the soil and staying
in people’s yards.”

 A U.S. Coast Guard handout aerial view of the tugboat Signet Enterprise with it's crew -- later rescued -- standing in the bow of the partially submerged vessel, near Port Aransas, Texas, Aug. 26, 2017. Hurricane Harvey's devastation points out a vulnerability of American oil energy: the concentration of refineries and chemical plants along a Gulf Coast that is vulnerable to bad weather. (U.S. Coast Guard via The New York Times) EDITORIAL USE ONLY