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(VIDEO) One Woman's Crusade Against Environmental Racism. Her Family Was Riddled With Cancer After Drinking Contaminated Well Water.

March 20, 2007 by editor  (View Source

(Washington Post)...DICKSON COUNTY, Tenn. Sheila Holt-Orsted sits on the edge of a sofa in her mother's living room, digging through the large translucent plastic bins arrayed at her feet. The Holt family's fight is in there -- the contaminated water, the cancers, the allegations of racism, the lawsuit. A family's seeming devastation, documented in those bins. (view source video and article).


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