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Sep 2023
55m 33s

Dirty Business

LOUISVILLE PUBLIC MEDIA
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In July 2022, floods killed 45 people and caused more than a billion dollars of damage in eastern Kentucky. Then, the people who were supposed to help clean up actually made things worse for a lot of survivors. There’s big money in disaster recovery. In “Dirty Business,” we investigate the expensive, messy work of cleaning up after 2022’s catastrophic floodi ... Show More
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