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“Don’t Dump on Us Keep North Carolina Healthy”

Photo: Martha Hamblin

Summer 2007: The Center for Health, Environment and Justice, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League and its chapters conducted a 10-county “Don’t Dump on Us Keep North Carolina Healthy” tour urging state leaders to oppose “mega-dumps” and to adopt sound policies for dealing with solid waste in North Carolina. The tour featured Lois Gibbs and other speakers. Gibbs is the executive director of the Center for Health, Environment and Justice, which she founded in Falls Church, Va. in the wake of the Love Canal saga nearly 30 years ago. The tour included a 20-foot-tall inflatable yellow duck, bearing banners that cautioned, “Don’t be a sitting duck for mega-dumps.” View Tour Slide Show