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Hazardous green chemical oozes onto Detroit highway
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-50892186Emergency services in the US state of Michigan are conducting a clean up operation after a dangerous greenish-yellow chemical oozed onto a highway.
Police said the chemical was hexavelent chromium, which can cause cancer.
Environmental officials said the clean-up operation would last for days.
The chemical appeared to come from a business in the Detroit suburbs that was shut down in 2016 for illegally storing hazardous materials, state environmental officials said.
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So they shut the place down in 2016 and three years later had done . . . what to start cleaning things up?
More of that heavy-handed regulation by jack-booted government thugs, no doubt. 
