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Climate change stirs ghosts of America s toxic past Tue 20th April 2021 | 08:30 AM
McIntosh, United States, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Apr, 2021 ) :Murky flood waters of Alabama s Tombigbee River rippled over ground tainted with mercury and a pesticide so toxic that US officials outlawed it decades ago, a dangerous past that could cause even more damage with climate change.
Hundreds of America s worst polluted places, like a neighboring pair of chemical plant sites on the Tombigbee, are threatened by storms, rising waters, fires and other extreme weather made more intense as the Earth warms. There might be a whole lot of danger for us, said 59-year-old Darrell Wayne Moss, who lives across the street from the sprawling Olin chemical plant. It makes you afraid. A tall, barbed-wire topped fence rings the factory which is a jigsaw-like collection of pipes, storage tanks, shiny metal vats and sheds and bears signs warning DANGER: RESTRICTED AREA.
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