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The Story of Toxic Sites
The story dates back to 2006 when Brooke Singer, the founder and creative director of Toxic Sites, met Robert Martin. Martin, an environmentalist and former National Ombudsman of the Environmental Protection Agency (1992-2002) was advising Singer on a citizen air-monitoring project for Lower Manhattan, leading him to the topic of New York City on 9/11. On that day, Robert was driving to his office, when the World Trade Center collapsed and the streets of New York were blanketed in a record amount of the most toxic substances ever known. Most Americans mourned and worried about further attacks, but EPA employees recognized the gravity of the environmental impact, swiftly mobilized first responders and internally debated whether all of Lower Manhattan should be declared a Superfund site – a site so hazardous that it warranted the relocation of inhabitants and immediate cleanup. In Robert’s opinion, all of Lower Manhattan qualified for Superfund after 9/11.
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