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Radioactive tritium contaminated water leaked into the groundwater at the Indian Point Nuclear facility. The company reported alarming levels of radioactivity at three monitoring wells, with one well’s radioactivity increasing nearly 65,000 percent. threat to public health. The recent radioactive leak at New York's Indian Point nuclear power plant is prompting renewed calls for the site to be shut down, amid growing concerns about the potential damage a nuclear accident could do in one of the most densely populated parts of the country. Now declared a public health hazard, the 21st-century Hooverville under a highway overpass became a symbol of San Francisco’s gaping inequality.
Residents have been ordered to vacate the San Francisco homeless encampment under a highway overpass after police and public workers pressured the city’s homeless to relocate there from areas of the city slated for Super Bowl 50 festivities. On Feb. 19, 1942, Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which authorized regional Army commanders to designate "military areas" from which "any or all persons may be excluded." In the hysteria after World War II, it quickly became clear that Lt. Gen. John L. DeWitt considered the West Coast's Japanese Americans any and all people -- just because they looked like the enemy. At the time, The Oregonian's coverage of the events may have seemed appropriate. But 74 years later, it's appalling. "The Japanese race is an enemy race," DeWitt argued in early 1942. "The very fact that no sabotage has taken place to date is disturbing and confirming indication that such action will be taken." A consortium of Chinese investors and agencies has proposed building three plants in the Pacific Northwest to convert natural gas to liquid methanol, which would then be shipped to China as a chemical-production feedstock- for the production of olefin, a component in a vast array of plastics, including carpet fibers, consumer-electronics cases and water bottles.
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