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Indonesia’s Unending Mud Mess

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Sep 21, 2007
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For nearly 18 months, a pillar of thick white smoke has been escaping from the bowels of the earth 20 kilometers south of Indonesia's second-largest city, Surabaya, signaling the location of what may be one of the world’s worst environmental disasters.

Jakarta seems helpless to combat the six square kilometers of goo surrounding the rooftops of factories…

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