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In 1997, students of Middletown High School in upstate New York produced a 54 minute documentary about organized crime, political corruption, and the illegal dumping of hazardous waste in the region's landfills. The students and their teacher have moved on, but the toxic chemicals remain where they were poured, slowly and silently leaching into the groundwater. Almost 25 years after the high school research project first started, this website reunites some of those who collaborated on Garbage Gangsters and
12/11/2014
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