78 million Americans live just a few miles from a toxic waste dump, but cleanup of these sites has hit an all-time low.

For the residents in East Chicago that found that the soil their children were playing in had 200 times the level of acceptable arsenic and lead, this is proving to be a deadly catastrophe. Those findings were known 12 years ago and still little has been done.

Akeeshia Daniels (pictured below) is one of those parents in East Chicago who fears for her children’s future.

Her story is unfortunately common. Explore in my latest piece of one of these toxic dumps is near your home.