Del Vento
well, see, they can at will change the definition of waste-land such that people can't sue them, and continue to live in it.
for example, after fukushima, japan raised its tolerable every day radiation to the equivalent of nuclear workers, so EVERY person in japan is considered a nuclear worker.
basically, downwinders get screwed every time, in the case of rocky flats, there are numerous community scientist explorations which revealed extremely high lvls of cancers 5-20 years out for downwinders.
the thing to remember is, it doesn't happen right away, cancers take time, and by the time you get it, the law is setup so it's very difficult to prove on part of the down-winder.
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