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"site": "https://insideclimatenews.org",
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"textContent": "Minneapolis activists are escalating a decades-long fight by going on a hunger strike to demand that local officials shut down a polluting trash incinerator. Residents have long opposed the Hennepin Energy Recovery Center, which burns waste to generate energy, for adding to toxic air pollution in a predominantly Black community with high rates of asthma. […]",
"title": "Minneapolis Activists Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Polluting Trash Incinerator"
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