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The environmental story no one is paying attention to …

December 30th, 2008 at 08:31am Jennie Pollock

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Because of the holidays, even I didn’t notice this until a few days later: On Dec. 22, more than a billion gallons of coal ash broke free from an earthen dam in eastern Tennessee, destroying three homes and ruining 300 acres of landscape.

I can’t even imagine what it takes to clean up all this toxic stuff.

Entry Filed under: Pollution, Nature, In the news

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