How polluters leverage a US agency to avoid cleanups

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In the U.S., some companies and other polluters are wielding the flawed work of a U.S. federal health agency against the people it is meant to protect. In a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, dozens of residents told Reuters they fear they are getting sick from radioactive waste dumped from the Manhattan Project decades ago. They say more should be done to clean up the residual contamination left by the historic atomic development program. Angela Johnston reports.

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