Over six tense weeks in the fall of 1982, 550 people were arrested in Warren County, some of them after lying in front of dump trucks loaded with PCB-laden soil bound for a landfill built by the State of North Carolina. With the full support, encouragement even, of then-Gov. Jim Hunt, the state had created ...
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