The Nation - News from July 13, 1987
Citing possible health hazards, workers at a Brooklyn incinerator have refused to handle garbage aboard a barge that traveled nearly 6,000 miles in search of a dump and was turned away by six states and three countries. Recently, the barge has been anchored off Brooklyn. A plan announced Friday by state and local officials called for the more than 3,000 tons of commercial refuse from New York City and Long Island to be burned and buried. Two days earlier, environmentalists and Brooklyn Borough President Howard Golden obtained a court order temporarily blocking the incineration.
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