Pesticide polluted D.C. rivers for decades, Racine alleges in lawsuit
on Thursday, alleging that its pesticide contaminated the Potomac and the Anacostia rivers for decades with chemicals it knew were linked to cancer.Flanked by environmentalists and representatives of the local NAACP, Racine said at a news conference that the effects of Velsicol Chemical’s alleged contamination particularly hit “low-income Black and Brown” residents, in a case that bridges environmental and racial justice.
Beginning in 1945, Illinois-based Velsicol was the sole maker of chlordane as a pesticide for killing insects, Racine said. But while the company was aware the product could cause cancer by 1959, he alleged, Velsicol opted for a campaign of “misinformation and deception” and continued to sell the product until 1988.The lawsuit says studies have linked long-term exposure to chlordane to live cancer, as well as miscarriages, depression and bone-marrow diseases.
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