Almost every year, students taking environmental justice at Pitzer College go on a toxics tour of their backyards in the Inland Empire of Southern California. This trip usually includes a visit to the Stringfellow Acid Pits, California’s first site to be designated as a Superfund in 1983.¹ Millions of gallons of chemical waste were dumped there from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s, and authorities estimate it will take at least four hundred years to clean up this contamination. Having learned about the history of this site in class (see chapter 5 of this volume), students anxiously anticipate seeing for