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Chance For Italy's Toxic Steelworks To Finally Go Green

The steelworks, which date from the 1960s, has been dogged by legal and political battles (Credit: AFP)

Doctor Maria Grazia Serra's patients have been "breathing, eating and drinking" toxins from Taranto's steelworks for decades, but a dispute over the vast Italian plant could finally see its ecological conversion.

Italy's hard-right government is set to decide this week whether to place the debt-ridden former Ilva plant under state administration, in a bid to secure production and thousands of jobs in a region with crippling unemployment.

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