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Who pays when polluters go bankrupt?

If bankruptcy laws are supposed to wipe the slate clean, but environmental laws are designed to hold polluters accountable forever -- which laws win? In other words: Who pays for the clean-up when a big polluter goes belly up? Hillary Wicai has more.

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