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Toxic coal-tar cleanup to cost New York $3 billion

SOURCE: DIGG • 2010-02-08
TOPICS: Energy • Physics • Coal • Gases • Fuels • Coal Gas • Disaster_accident • Environment

[128 diggs @ Environment] A toxic liquid has been creeping through the soil of cities in the mid-Hudson Valley for more than a century. From the 1800s to the 1950s, manufactured gas plants provided light and heat to thousands who walked city streets and lived in city homes... read more »

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