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EPA allows uranium mining that pumps toxic waste into Wyoming drinking water

By Abrahm Lustgarten, ProPublica GILLETTE, Wyo. — On a lonely stretch at the edge of the Great Plains, rolling grassland presses up against a crowning escarpment called the Pumpkin Buttes. The land appears bountiful, but it is stingy, straining to produce enough sustenance for the herds of cattle and sheep…