Name: Shingle Mountain: How a pile of toxic waste was dumped in a community of color
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Shingle Mountain: How a pile of toxic waste was dumped in a community of color

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Climate and Environment How a pile of toxic pollution was dumped in a community of color Marsha Jackson, 62, in her backyard off South Central Expressway in Dallas, is dwarfed by Shingle Mountain, an illegal toxic waste dump. By Marsha Jackson didn’t go to the mountain. The mountain came to her. From her home in south Dallas, she watched it grow until it towered at 60 feet tall and spread all the way to her backyard, “a few feet from my bedroom.” The mountain is human-made — an environmental nightmare of discarded roofing shingles stretching more than a city block. Even though it’s an...

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Darryl Fears

Graphics reporter @washingtonpost focusing on climate and environmental justice. Email: john.muyskens@washpost.com

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