Sandra Steingraber Quotes

#1. The scientific analysis that is supposed to provide our Governor the facts and information he needs to make a crucial decision was crafted with the guidance of the gas industry, not of the state's scientists.

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#2. Between the late 1950s and the late 1980s, more than 750 million tons of chemical wastes were discarded.

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#3. Drink a bottle of French water and then step into the shower for ten minutes and you've just received the exposure equivalent of drinking a half gallon of tap water. We enjoy the most intimate of relationships with our public drinking water, whether we want to or not.

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#4. I have come to believe that extracting natural gas from shale using the newish technique called hydrofracking is the environmental issue of our time. And I think you should, too.

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#5. I'm beginning to perceive motherhood as a long, slow letting go, of which birth is just the first step.

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