Impacts on Industrial chemicals on the environment and the people

I have done some research on this topic and I have learned that industrial chemicals have been linked with developmental neurotoxicity. This meaning that industrial chemicals have caused such brain functions during fetal development. Not all industrial chemicals but only the ones listed below.
A few industrial chemicals (eg, lead, methylmercury, polychlorinated biphenyls [PCBs], arsenic, and toluene) are recognised causes of neurodevelopmental disorders and subclinical brain dysfunction. Exposure to these chemicals during early fetal development can cause brain injury at doses much lower than those affecting adult brain function. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17174709

Not all industrial chemicals are toxic but they are used for many reasons. They help kill weeds and are used for pesticides. Toxic industrial chemicals enter our water ways in which we use to wash our dishes, laundry, ourselves, and gets into our drinking water. Industrial chemicals are cheap and companies use them for industrial and agricultural processes.

This website is helpful on some of the toxic chemicals in which industries use or used to have,
http://www.planetagenda.com/chemicals.htm

I remember when I was a young kid, I am still young but I am talking around the age of ten to thirteen. I remember the issues of the new cement plant that they were going to try to make over by the Hudson river called The Saint Lawrence Cement Plant. This cement plant they said was going to bring about plentiful jobs in the community, people started to become happy. Then they started to think about their children and what was going to happen to their future once the new cement plant was going to take place.
People started to protest left and right. The air quality would have been treacherous. When your that young and you read the register star..the daily newspaper of Hudson, NY you know that something bad was going to happen in your community. I dont know why it phased me so much. I was fascinated by the fact of the issue and that it came across my mind at such a young age.

St. Lawrence Cement in Hudson

ST. LAWRENCE CEMENT PLANT DEFEATED
After fighting for over six years to build a cement plant on the Hudson waterfront in the community of Hudson, St. Lawrence Cement has officially withdrawn its application for the plant. The New York State Department of State found the plan inconsistent with the State’s Coastal Zone Policies. Without the state approval, SLC would be unable to obtain the permits from the US Army Corps of Engineers needed to move forward with the project. Riverkeeper is proud to have been an active member of a broad coalition of groups that has adamantly opposed the plant.

http://www.riverkeeper.org/campaigns/river-ecology/waterfront-development-review/st-lawrence-cement/