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Dozens of workers tasked with cleaning up the nation's largest coal ash spill in Kingston, Tenn., are dying. More than 17 are dead. An investigation by USA Today Network-Tennessee reveals no one warned them of the stew of toxic chemicals in the fly ash they were breathing and the wet ash they waded in for 14 hours a day, seven-days a week, some of them for years, or provided them basic protection. (Video by Angela Gosnell/News Sentinel)

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