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Blood in the Well: One Town’s Fight Against the Slaughterhouse Polluting It
Residents of a Pennsylvania town took on a beef processor after its waste polluted their wells. They won — but little may change.
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Maddy Lauria, Grist
Maddy Lauria is a freelance writer and photographer based in central Delaware, who covers local and regional topics from environmental justice to climate change to industrial farming and everything in between.
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