Her Family Moved to Escape This Deadly Chemical — But It Followed

Her Family Moved to Escape This Deadly Chemical — But It Followed

For Linda Robles, a new house was supposed to be an escape from the poison in her hometown.  She had fled the toxic groundwater discovered in southern Tucson, where a military base had spent decades dumping toxic chemicals into the ground. Among those was trichloroethylene, or TCE, a cancer-causing chemical widely used in factories, airports, and military bases to degrease metal parts. The wastewater mingled with the groundwater, turning the are…