How a powerful company convinced Georgia to let it bury toxic waste in groundwater

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By Max Blau, ProPublicaFeb 12, 2022, 6:00 am328 pts
This story was originally published by ProPublica. Sign up for their newsletter, The Big Story, to receive stories like this one in your inbox. For the past several years, Georgia Power has gone to great lengths to skirt the federal rule requiring coal-fired power plants to safely dispose of massive amounts of…

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