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Indian LG plant lacked environmental clearance before leak

by Associated Press
| May 15, 2020 12:03 AM

NEW DELHI (AP) — A plastics factory in India where a chemical gas leak killed 12 people and sickened hundreds more last week lacked federal environmental clearance but had been issued state permits to operate anyway, exposing a potentially dangerous enforcement gap in the country's laws.

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