My Toxic Backyard

20142014
1h

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9.0/10

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The official trailer for My Toxic Backyard. A documentary about the decades long fight for clean drinking water by residents of a small community living next to a toxic Superfund site.

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Residents of a small community fight for clean drinking water as the contaminated soil of an old manufacturing plant continues leaking dangerous toxins into ground more than twenty years aft... Read allResidents of a small community fight for clean drinking water as the contaminated soil of an old manufacturing plant continues leaking dangerous toxins into ground more than twenty years after the threat was first reported to the EPA.Residents of a small community fight for clean drinking water as the contaminated soil of an old manufacturing plant continues leaking dangerous toxins into ground more than twenty years after the threat was first reported to the EPA.

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10/10

Great story of brave people fighting for clean drinking water.

A startling look at the incompetence (or corruption?) of the EPA, and the impacts on the lives of the residents trusting that this governmental agency would do its job. People have died, and many others have gotten sick, as a result of exposure to the TCE poured into their drinking water as industrial waste by a chemical corporation. How is that not criminal?

The movie is well-paced and thoroughly researched. The story telling is concise and easy to follow, without being overly simplistic. Ms. Damien's style and command of the medium puts her in the class of great documentary filmmakers, such as Michael Moore, Alex Gibney, Werner Herzog, and Errol Morris.

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