The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.

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The EPA Has Done Nearly Everything It Can to Clean Up This Town. It Hasn’t Worked.

by Lisa Song ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Nearly 100 people crowded into the library in Calvert City, Kentucky, in February when the Environmental Protection Agency hosted a public meeting on air pollution. Many had discovered flyers in their mailboxes explaining how the agency had found “elevated levels” of chemicals that “can pose an …