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Dominican town plagued by birth defects; is U.S. company to blame?

She lives in a small wooden house with no indoor plumbing in a rural village in northern Dominican Republic, not far from where coal ash generated by Virginia-based AES Corp. wound up at the edge of the sea. Full Article at Belleville News-Democrat

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