Which detail best supports the idea that environmental damage can affect an entire
community?
A. “‘While I was dumping the heavy bottoms in the canal, I saw a bird fly into the
fumes and fall instantly into the water. It was like he’d been shot.’” (Paragraph
17)
B. “A Calcasieu Advisory Task Force met to discuss the surrounding waterways, to
describe them as ‘impaired’, and to consider issuing a seafood advisory, warning
people to limit their consumption of local fish.” (Paragraph 22)
C. “PPG was not alone. Other industries had been polluting so much that Louisiana
had become the worst hazardous waste producer in the nation.” (Paragraph 26)
D. “He had loyally followed company orders to contaminate an estuary. He had
done his company’s moral dirty work, taken its guilt as his own, and then been
betrayed and discarded, like a form of waste.” (Paragraph 36)
