Worried residents of Times Beach, Mo., elbowed their way into the jammed courtyard of a Holiday Inn in nearby Eureka. They pressed against the locked glass doors of a large meeting room, their intense faces showing the strain of waiting in vain for years for state and federal officials to decide what to do about the potentially lethal dioxin that had poisoned their town. Over a loudspeaker came the voice of EPA Administrator Anne Burford. The Federal Government, she told reporters inside the room, would spend up to $33 million to buy all the...
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