The Toxic Tour of Gainesville, Georgia
The Newtown Florist Club
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"All along, the answer was right in our own backyards," one member explained.  "We have so many industries producing powerful toxic emissions nonstop, and for the longest time they've just been contaminating the water we drink, our garden soil and the air we breathe.  Sometimes you can't stay outside more than a few hours, because the smell of chemicals is so strong."

Members of the Newtown Florist Club began gathering data, in collaboration with the EPD and other government agencies, to show a correlation between industrial emissions and the unusually high rate of cancer, lupus and other health problems found in the neighborhood.

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