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Mishandling of pesticide contamination a case of 'government at its worst'
Children have contracted leukemia at a rate six times higher than the national average. Neighbors are pitted against neighbors. And a bucolic area of Whatcom County struggles with a pesticide problem that reflects "an example of government at its worst."
Migrant workers heard nothing of pesticide danger
The year the state Department of Ecology found a carcinogenic pesticide in the water of five migrant labor camps here in rural Whatcom County, the people who lived there never heard a word about it.
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