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Adam Hochberg of member station WUNC reports on the brouhaha over a plan to site a toxic waste incinerator in a rural North Carolina town. The town fathers of Woodland, North Carolina have offered to host the incinerator, possibly ending a seven-year search by the state to site such a facility. But some say the incinerator could be the worst thing that ever happened to the town.
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