Toxic battery plant has to tell its 12,000 neighbors they might get cancer

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By Aura BogadoMay 19, 2016, 4:58 pm146 pts
A smelter in the Los Angeles area has 30 days to tell its 12,000 neighbors that the plant’s arsenic emissions put them at a high risk for developing cancer. It also has to come up with a plan to reduce those emissions — but that could take years, if it happens at all. Quemetco operates a lead-acid…

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