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This tiny Pennsylvania community was deemed ‘expendable.’ So toxic waste keeps flowing

Fast Company Tech

YUKON, Pa.When government inspectors arrived at the hazardous waste landfill here in 2023, they found themselves in a barren and alien landscape carved from western Pennsylvanias green countryside. Pennsylvania is the countrys second-largest producer of natural gas , and much of the industrys solid waste ends up at landfills such as this one.