Mr. Clapp is a journalist and the author of “Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash,” from which this essay is adapted. In the closing years of the Cold War, something strange started to happen.

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SHINE Technologies, a next-generation fusion company, announced today that it has been selected to receive funding from the U.S. Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

What happened at Love Canal? This toxic waste disaster near Niagara Falls left families sick and entire neighborhoods abandoned. This video reveals the shocking truth.

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