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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: Toxic Landfill BURNING for 3 Years While Officials Do NOTHING: Residents BLEEDING
Description: A 90-acre toxic landfill fire has been burning for THREE YEARS while California officials shrug their shoulders. Residents near Chiquita Canyon Landfill are literally bleeding from their eye sockets, developing rare diseases, and being forced to barricade themselves in their homes while politicians offer nothing but air purifiers and tax complications. $25 million in hush money from the landfill operators won't cover the cancer diagnoses, respiratory illnesses, and destroyed property values as this underground chemical nightmare expands unchecked. Officials claim they're "monitoring the situation" while refusing to declare the obvious state of emergency that would actually help these taxpayers relocate...