Uniontown, Pennsylvania

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America’s waste winds up in poorest countries

On December 22nd, 2008, a Tennessee Valley coal-fired power plant ruptured, sending nearly one billion gallons of coal ash into a nearby river, where it turned to sludge. That hazardous sludge was shipped to a landfill site outside Uniontown, Alabama ? an area whose demographic is too poor for the kind of political clout that […]

The World

America’s waste winds up in poorest countries

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