Environmental Health News: Rev. Thomas Long stands in a vacant lot across from his Montrose Avenue home in an area contaminated with PCBs from the nearby chemical plant. Credit: David Tulis.
The Rev. Thomas Long doesn’t have neighbors on Montrose Avenue anymore. Everyone is gone.
Widespread chemical contamination from a Monsanto plant was discovered in this quiet city in the Appalachian foothills back in the 1990s. In West Anniston, behind Long’s home, a church was fenced off, and men in “moon suits” cleaned the site…

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