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In the Shadow of America's Smokestacks, Virus Is One More Deadly Risk [nytimes.com]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) · 5/18/207:49 AM

By Hiroko Tabuchi, The New York Times, May 17, 2020 This isn’t the first time Vicki Dobbins’s town has been forced to shelter in place. Last year, the Marathon Petroleum refinery that looms over her neighborhood near Detroit emitted a pungent gas, causing nausea and dizziness among neighbors and prompting health officials to warn people to stay inside. When a stay-at-home advisory returned in March, this time for the coronavirus, “it was just devastating,” Ms. Dobbins said. Ms. Dobbins, who...

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In the Shadow of America's Smokestacks, Virus Is One More Deadly Risk [nytimes.com]

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