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Action To Clean Up Pennsylvania's Mahoning River Slows To a Trickle [1]

Thirty years after companies stopped dumping dangerous wastes into the Mahoning River, near Youngstown, Ohio, it is still too polluted for fishing or recreation. Most of the companies are long since gone out of business, but nobody has taken action to clean the river up.



Caitlin Cook reports for the Youngstown Vindicator November 20, 2011. [2]

Pollution [3]
Water & Oceans [4]
Northeast (CT MA ME NH NJ NY RI VT) [5]
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Source: Youngstown Vindicator [2], 11/21/2011
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[1] https://www.sej.org/headlines/action-clean-pennsylvanias-mahoning-river-slows-trickle [2] http://www.vindy.com/news/2011/nov/20/rebuilding-the-river/ [3] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/pollution [4] https://www.sej.org/category/topics-beat/water [5] https://www.sej.org/category/region/national/northeast [6] https://www.sej.org/taxonomy/term/81