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 Stories About: nuclear power AND toxics AND Utah AND waste
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Goshutes, nukes, poverty, and the environment
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Lisa Hymas |
14 Mar 2006 |
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| Here's a perfect illustration of the ugly intersection of poverty and environmental degradation: the fight over whether the Goshute tribe of Utah should be able to use its reservation as a holding site for highly radioactive waste from nuclear power plants around the country. Time's Margot Roosevelt describes the tribe's stark, denuded homeland: To the southwest lies the Dugway Proving Ground, where the U.S. government develops chemical and biological weapons. To the e ... |
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| Topics: nuclear power, toxics, Utah, waste (all these topics) |
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