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Penalty encourages illegal dumping

What a joke: the $95,000 penalty for dumping radioactive waste in Estill County. It should have been $95 million. The state officials who negotiated this settlement should be ashamed. They have just encouraged more illegal dumping.

Michael Kerwin

Lexington

This story was originally published October 28, 2016 at 7:41 PM with the headline "Penalty encourages illegal dumping."

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