October 27, 2009 - From 1950 to 1967, The Hayes-Sammons plant in Mission, Texas operated a pesticide mixing plant, combining dozens of industrial-grade chemicals into their own special brands of bug-killing elixir.
Guadalupe Garza grew up in the neighborhood, and became the first of nearly 1,600 former Hayes-Sammons employees and nearby residents to take her toxic exposure case before a jury. Specifically, she alleges that three chemical compounds used at the plant - DDT, dieldrin and toxaphene - built up in her body over time and triggered the cancer she developed later in life.
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Water Contamination, Land Pollution & Hazardous Waste Material are issues families all across America are afflicted with daily.
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