NATION IN BRIEF : UTAH : Train’s Tainted Load Hauled to Dump
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A 32-car train, dubbed the “cancer cannonball” by environmentalists, arrived at a dump site in western Utah where health officials say its load of tainted soil can be disposed of safely. Workers unloaded the 2,400-ton shipment at a rail siding in Clive, Utah, while a small group of protesters demonstrated peacefully. The dirt is contaminated with acrylic acid removed from the site of a Michigan train derailment.
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