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Waste Injection Wells: The Earth's Invisible Dump

Dave Kirby

Boulder Weekly | September 21, 2012

With more than 30 trillion gallons of toxic waste having been injected under the surface of the Earth, what happens if our belief that what goes down can’t come up is wrong?

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Tags: toxic waste, waste

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