Four elderly citizens sued for $30M for trying to stop landfill pollution in their neighborhood

‘Four residents of a small town in Alabama are being sued for speaking out against a company that has dumped four million tons of toxic coal ash from a 2008 Tennessee spill near their homes.
In Uniontown, a poor rural town in the heart of the South’s Black Belt, Esther Calhoun, Ben Eaton, Mary Schaeffer, and Ellis Long created Black Belt Citizens for Health and Justice — an organization dedicated to fighting racial and environmental injustice.
After being sued for $30 million by the Green Group Holdings and Howling Coyote, the two companies that own the landfill, these four residents are fighting back. The slander lawsuit violates their right to speak the truth to protect their community.’
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