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There is a town in Missouri the US government wiped from the map — it’s one of history’s worst environmental disasters

The story of Missouri’s Times Beach involves one of the strangest environmental disasters in American history, and it started with something as mundane as dusty roads. In a video that has racked up ...
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EPA does new soil tests at Times Beach site, evacuated in 1980s because of dioxin

ST. LOUIS -- Nearly 30 years after Times Beach, Mo., was evacuated in one of the nation's most notorious environmental disasters, scientists with the Environmental Protection Agency are returning to ...