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Topic: Toxic Waste

Desoto State park dam (Getty Images)

Below aging dams, a toxic thread

James Dinneen, Alexander Kennedy - Undark
A soldier walks past open sewage on December 14, 2005 in Az Zubayr near Basra in southern Iraq. (John Moore/Getty Images)

How the U.S. poisoned Iraq

David Masciotra
Zuzana Caputova (Getty/Vladimir Simicek)

"Erin Brockovich of Slovakia" elected

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
FILE - In this June 27, 2012, file photo, a Chinook salmon, second from the bottom, swims in the Columbia River with sockeye salmon at the Bonneville Dam fish-counting window near North Bonneville, Wash. Federal authorities want to add more hatchery-raised fish to the 28 Pacific Coast salmon and steelhead stocks listed under the Endangered Species Act. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) (AP)

What would the salmon say?

Sarah Okeson - DCReport
(AP/Rich Pedroncelli)

Single-package plastic public enemy No.1

Sylvain Charlebois - The Conversation
(Reuters/Aly Song)

Dan Ross - FairWarning

Oliver lets Big Oil have it

Sarah Burris
(jo Crebbin/Shutterstock)

Lindsay Abrams
(AP/Keith Srakocic)

Naveena Sadasivam - ProPublica
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Connie Cass