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Chemicals Within Us
OCTOBER 2006
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Protective Measures
Photograph by Peter Essick

Along with pollution from decades of PCB production in their city, Anniston, Alabama, residents learned in recent years of another hazard: a project to incinerate decommissioned chemical weapons at a nearby military depot. Sha-Nekia Pittman and her daughter, Tikyia Jackson, practice donning government-issued gas hoods, their sole defense against a leak.



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