Netflix's Toxic Town offers a stark warning on environmental rollbacks

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Toxic sludge was carted in lorries through town and spilled onto roads poisoning the people in the area / Credit: Netflix
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Toxic sludge was carted in lorries through town and spilled onto roads poisoning the people in the area / Credit: Netflix

The hit TV show underscores the importance of robust regulations at a time when many of them are under threat

Netflix's new drama Toxic Town tells the true story of a group of women from Corby in Northamptonshire, UK, who gave birth to children with limb differences in the 1980s and 90s. The children were born...

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