Angela Zhang
speaker
440 appearances
6 recordings
2 series
first heard Jul 2023
last heard 9 Sep
Angela Zhang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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But we just heard Chris say at the facility in Spokane that it's clean.
Is Gaia thinking of older incinerators or open trash fires, maybe?
No.
So they're talking about the same facilities.
And this was surprising to me because I thought for emissions, like, we have numbers on that, right?
Like, the data says that they're high or they're not.
The chemicals that the Spokane facility measures, they're all under the regulatory levels.
And experts like Marco say that we have to be realistic about how clean something is really able to get.
To be clear, landfills have been linked to some negative health effects as well.
And that's what waste management experts kept saying to me, that there's just no such thing as zero risk.
So when it comes to toxic chemicals from burning our trash, regulatory bodies set limits based on minimal risk.
But to environmental justice activists like Jessica, this is not a different discussion at all.
So these two sides really don't agree on the safety of the emissions that are being created by incinerators.
But shouldn't science help us prove this?
Like, chemicals don't lie.
So you can measure whether a chemical that's being created, emitted, has a certain health effect in an area.
I mean, what does research show?
So that was actually a really tough part to wade through.
There are studies showing higher rates of asthma, cancer, birth defects in communities near incinerators.
And then there are also studies showing the opposite, that the incinerators aren't linked to increases in health conditions, especially in newer incinerators with better technology.
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