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Criminal intent?(letters)(Letter to the editor)

In reading about NRDC and Sheila Holt-Orsted's battle to save her family and her Tennessee community from contaminated drinking water (Dispatches, Fall 2007), several questions came to mind. According to the article, NRDC is filing suit against the Dickson County landfill for violation of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, but the government officials in charge knew the groundwater was polluted, and they knew it was dangerous. So why not prosecute this as a criminal matter? Why not prosecute for assault, manslaughter, murder? Or as a hate crime, considering the alleged racial discrimination.

--ADAM FIKSO

Glenview, Illinois

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