Coal ash from U.S. blamed for Dominican town's birth defects

It has been six years since a contractor from Delray Beach, Fla., brought the black dusty residue to the province of Samaná, and three years since the ash was cleaned up. Several civil lawsuits and criminal cases later, just when everyone thought it was over, the other shoe has dropped. A civil lawsuit filed Wednesday in Delaware charges that toxic levels of waste dumped at the Arroyo Barril port has made people nearby sick. After years of repeated miscarriages, women whose blood levels show abnormal levels of arsenic are giving birth to babies with cranial deformities, with organs outside their bodies or missing limbs.
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  1. #1    O my god! I hope someone will publish pictures of these poor babies! Look at the tags on this story: environment, coal, corporatism, death. That says it all!
    written by AlicedeTocqueville since 12 days 22 hours 26 minutesAlicedeTocqueville
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