toxic legacy: making a wasteland  ford, the feds and the mob: the inside story on a wasteland and efforts to clean it up<br><br>a generation ago, the ford motor company churned out 6 million cars and trucks at a sprawling assembly plant in northern new jersey. before the plant closed in 1980, it generated an ocean of pollution that was dumped in the nearby forests, contaminating a mountain community and threatening the region’s most important watershed.<br><br>a team of reporters from the record spent months investigating the dumping and failed cleanup efforts and documenting the impact on the ramapough indian community living amid the waste. <br><br>“toxic legacy,” the newspaper’s acclaimed series, attracted national attention and inspired the hbo documentary, “mann v. ford.” this book contains the series, which won the first-ever grantham prize for exceptional environmental journalism, and follows the story up until today. <br><br>a portion of all proceeds is donated to benefit the community affected by the events described in “toxic legacy: making a wasteland.”<br>