![]() Stephanie Breinholt, director of BYU’s 2018 production of Radium Girls, hopes that the cast, crew, and audience don’t think of this play as a past event, but of the present day. To view a map of Brownfields and Superfund Sites and other Environmental Incidents in the your zip code click here.The EPA estimates that there are more than 450,000 Brownfields in America. ![]() ![]() As of this year, only 412 of the 1338 Superfund sites have been cleaned up and 53 more have been identified.Note that the industries are often allowed to continue manufacturing the products and are not held completely fiscally responsible for the clean up. Brownfields: Other locations that ‘naturally’ store unhealthy and/or deadly hazardous waste that emanate waste into the air, or the soil, or run off into local waterways are called Brownfields.Billions of taxpayers’ money is used to clean, transport, and then store the hazardous waste materials … in someone else’s hometown. Superfund Site: The EPA identifies unhealthy levels of hazardous waste emanating from industrial locations, which are labeled Superfund Sites.2005: The New Jersey plant waste ended up just 100 miles from BYU in White Mesa, UT, a Ute Indian Reservationīut wait … they’re not the only manufacturing companies in the United States who use radium, nor is radium the only source linked to cancer and other unhealthy and/or deadly disease.1997-2005: The EPA began directing taxpayer dollars into a project called “SuperFund Sites” to put the dangerous substances into hazardous waste containers and ship it across the country to hazardous waste facilities.Radium Corp (1917-2005, now, Safety Light Corporation) not only contaminated their workers, but the neighborhood and waterways downstream from factories in five states. You may be thinking, “At least this isn’t happening in my backyard?” U.S. To add insult to injury, and with time running out for the five dying Radium Girls, they were pressured to reach an out-of-court settlement of $10K each (equivalent to $142K in 2018) by family (who needed money to cover medical and funeral costs), by locals (who thought them ungrateful to quit a paying job as the Depression Era began), and by the Federal Judge who acted as the settlement negotiator (who was later discovered to have owned stock in U.S.Paying key witness staff to take paid European vacations for 12-18 months so they would be unavailable and therefore postpone the trial in hopes that the girls would die before the trial began and the suit would be dropped.Paying hush money bribes (as little as $26.00) to victims, or their living family members, if they would sign legal documents binding them not to bring suit.Paying doctors and dentists not to share personal medical records of radiation poisoning with those patients.Paying doctors, dentists, and coroners to falsely attribute the signs of radiation poisoning to syphilis (hoping to quiet the girls and their families by tainting them with a sexual disease diagnosis.).Disguising their Vice President and an unlicensed medical practitioner as doctors who examined the girls and falsified medical reports that stated the dying girls were in better health than the average citizen.Hiring a scientist (who sold radioactive water as a cure-all) to give a false “all clear” report inaccurately describing that the workers’ area was safe.Turning in the doctored report into the Journal of Medicine as well as the NJ Bureau of Statistics and Labor.Doctoring a negative report by the Harvard scientist team that the company had hired, which had indicated that the radioactive dust was so prevalent that you could see it as dust on the floor and furnishings, as well as down to the undergarments of the workers.Instructing all dial painters in a practice called “Lip, Dip, Paint” (using their lips to get a finer point on the paint brush), although the scientist who invented the glow in the dark paint discouraged this practice.Protecting their all-male corporate executives and lab workers with protective clothing and leaded barriers.
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