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Tragic Death Gives Way to Environmental Rebirth

WOOD RIVER JUNCTION, R.I. — Fifty-two years ago this July an explosion rocked this rural village and devastated a local family. To this day, it remains the only fatal industrial accident at a U.S. nuclear facility.

 

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Movement Builds for Replacing 6-10 Connector

PROVIDENCE — James Kennedy, a vocal supporter of tearing down the decrepit Route 6-10 Connector, believes this maze of concrete and asphalt that isolates neighborhoods was inspired by an early-1960s cartoon. And it's not funny.

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Opportunity Knocks Where Toxins Hide

The Industrial Revolution left many New England cities and towns with a legacy: manufacturing pollution that turned once-productive, and often pristine, land and water into dumps.

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