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Alabama county takes on tons of toxic waste (coal ash)

By Courtney Haden

11:37 AM on 10/13/2009

From the Birmingham Weekly> Into a place where the Cahaba, one of America's last free-running wild rivers, flows, Perry County in Alabama is welcoming, and the Environmental Protection Agency is permitting, almost four million tons of toxic waste (coal or fly ash), shipped in from a TVA plant 300 miles...