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Marsha Jackson Wants to Move Shingle Mountain

N HOT, HUMID DAYS, WHEN THE wind blows over Shingle Mountain, Marsha Jackson can’t breathe. For three years, a company called Blue Star Recycling has been dumping hundreds of tons of roof shingles in the lot next to her home and grinding them up into

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