Growing number of US schools are toxic

  • 19/03/2001

An increasing number of U.S. schools are built on abandoned dump sites or too close to polluted factories and pesticide spraying at schools could be contributing to diseases in children from asthma to testicular cancer, an environmental group said yesterday. A report by the Center for Health, Environment and Justice said local school authorities across the country do not have federal guidelines on where to build new schools and often are enticed by cheap land that is contaminated.