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This city’s mining battle reveals the contentious path to a cleaner future
Minnesota’s Freeway 210 threads via the tiny cities of Aitkin County, a poor and sparsely populated stretch of forests, lakes, and wetlands that reaches simply into the northeastern nook of the state. A brief drive off the freeway, due south