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MIGHTY MUSHROOM TACKLES DIOXIN

A former lumber mill in Fort Bragg, California, 130 miles north of San Francisco, is infested with dioxin. The bioremediation method being proposed, according to a recent New York Times article, involves using mushrooms that have successfully treated oil spills. Fort Bragg was home to the second-largest redwood mill in the U.S., which closed in 2002. Owned by Georgia-Pacific, the mill has several toxic hot spots with high levels of dioxin that the mill says were ash piles when it burned wood from Bay Area landfills. Fort Bragg must clean up the contaminated coastline this year or risk losing a $4.2 million grant from the California Coastal ...

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