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And that doesn't include the trash incinerator, the power plant and the cement-grinding factory that have moved into her neighborhood since the early 1990s.

Living in one of America's most factory-polluted areas has turned the 74-year-old woman and her neighbors into activists. But after five years of community protests and citizen lawsuits, the biggest improvement Williams can claim is a few millions dollars in equipment to lessen the stench from the sewage plant.

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