#561 - New U.S. Waste Policy, Pt. 2: Sewage Sludge
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In the mid-1980s, a citizens' organization in New Jersey --Clean Ocean Action, led by Cindy Zipf --launched an aggressive campaign to protect the oceans from the dumping of toxic sewage sludge. They were up against extraordinary power: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) opposed them; New York and New Jersey environmental officials opposed them; nearly every municipal government opposed them. But they persevered and won.
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