ATLAS · A CLAIM AND WHERE IT CAME FROM

I know the 'safe' number I'm writing into law was never meant to protect the people living near the plant.

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→ What it leads to (1)

Links a room could not settle (4)

• → The rollback language I draft removes the legal requirement to study health impacts, so the link is never formally made.: Why do affected communities rarely see the link between local pollution and their own health? model room
• ← The enforcement numbers are based on arbitrary standards set by people far away from the communities I work with.: Why do affected communities rarely see the link between local pollution and their own health? model room
• → Nobody ever shows us the permit or tells us what's in the water, so we can't connect it to our sickness.: Why do affected communities rarely see the link between local pollution and their own health? model room
• → We frame health risks as industry-wide trends, not site-specific hazards, in our public reporting.: Why do affected communities rarely see the link between local pollution and their own health? model room

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