Associated Press | "EPA watchdog finds nation’s most contaminated sites are vulnerable to flooding, wildfires”
The Associated Press interviewed Dr. Lara Cushing, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about Superfund sites.
The Associated Press interviewed Dr. Lara Cushing, associate professor in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences, about federal Superfund sites that are vulnerable to flooding and wildfires.
" ... Lara J. Cushing, a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles who has studied the effects of a changing climate on the nation’s toxic waste sites, petrochemical plants and other hazardous areas, called the new reports “noteworthy and important.”
“ … the fact is the climate is changing and we need to be proactive in responding to rising seas and more extreme weather or face the consequences of increasingly frequent cascading natural-technological disasters that poison communities and local ecosystems,” said Cushing."
Note the Associated Press piece ran in more than 200 media outlets.
