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More than 13 millions pounds of hazardous powder were trucked from Yazoo City, Mississippi, to a warehouse near Berger, Missouri. The material sat there for five years before being cleaned up, in part, on the taxpayer’s dime. An investigative series from The Beacon and KBIA takes a look how the waste was created and why it ended up “Dumped in Berger.”
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