The Dirty Business of Turning a Farmworker Town into a Toxic Wasteland

Kettleman City is a rural, majority Latino and farmworker community halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. It is home to the largest hazardous waste dump this side of the Mississippi and to shockingly high rates of childhood cancer, birth defects and miscarriages – two facts residents believe to be connected. Now the dump is looking … Continue reading The Dirty Business of Turning a Farmworker Town into a Toxic Wasteland