Erik Olson Quotes on Cities (2 Quotes)

State and some federal officials have been consistently denying there are any significant risks from the toxic mud that has spread across the city. The data they themselves have collected show that, to the contrary, there are significant risks from arsenic and toxic chemicals that have blanketed much of New Orleans.

We worry that most of the city of New Orleans could end up being a toxic waste site. There isn't a concerted effort to contain pollution at some of these industrial waste sites, and the monitoring ... seems far too limited.