Tumor-free flounder are just 1 dividend from the cleanup of Boston Harbor
Thursday, January 10, 2019 - 12:00
in Astronomy & Space
Thirty years ago, during the 1988 presidential campaign, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush took a boat ride across Boston Harbor and derided the environmental record of his rival, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, calling the polluted waters a "harbor of shame." Bush was right. For decades Boston had been dumping barely treated sewage into the harbor, although a court-ordered cleanup was just starting.