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Biggest U.S. Industrial Accidents May Be Waiting to Happen |
October 21, 2010
Western Hungary still is digging out from under 24.7 million cubic feet of caustic red sludge--a toxic tide unleashed when a containment pond at an old aluminum factory gave way. The breach killed nine, injured 150, forced home evacuations and ruined property over a 15.6 square mile area. Hardly had the mud subsided, though, when an environmental group fingered another 150 industrial sites in the Danube region, each a potential disaster in the making. Here in the U.S., what industrial dangers lie in wait? Experts suggested this list of the most unsavory sites to ABC News:
http://feeds.abcnews.com/click.phdo?i=965b5c31380ce317c780d860c9e9dd2d
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