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My guess is that a lot of these places are going to be doubly screwed, because of the shakeout in that industry due to the falling oil prices: even in cases where a company is provably causing damage via bad practices, there may not be a company left to sue for damages.

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Dealing with this is a large part of the job. Picture a small community, or group of families, fighting a major corporation that just repeats "the science isn't conclusive" and "we worked within legal guidelines and can't be blamed". Outside firms have to be hired, by people whose livelihoods have been squashed, to do extensive, and expensive, testing. It's frustrating and sad.

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