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Activists wanted to clean up a coal ash dump. Dump sued activists for complaining

2016-06-03 02:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: Four residents of a tiny Alabama town are fighting back against a giant landfill operator after the Georgia-based company, Green Group, filed a $30 million defamation suit against them. The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal court to dismiss the suit on Thursday. Green Group operates a toxic coal ash dump in Uniontown, Ala., a small, mostly black community where half the residents live below the poverty line. The Arrowhead landfill draws coal ash - the sludge left by burning coal -...

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