Sandra Steingraber, Environmentalist: “Fracking Is One of the Worst Technologies in the United States Since the Atomic Bomb”

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The path to the activism of the biology doctor Sandra Steingraber (Illinois, United States, 1959) began when, as a student, she was diagnosed with bladder cancer. It was the same disease that had taken her aunt, but, being adopted, she knew that it was not genetics that had brought them together in misfortune. Maybe it was why they shared the same environment?, she wondered.