If you drive west for half an hour from Selma, Alabama, you come to Uniontown, a predominantly African American community of 2,000 people.
When the county began to consider allowing construction of a landfill in Uniontown, a group of residents organized to fight it—a battle they lost.
But the war wasn’t over when the Arrowhead Landfill began operating in 2007 and further escalated after coal ash from a Tennessee spill was sent to the site two years later.
On its Facebook page, the residents’ group alleged that toxic material from coal ash at the landfill was “leaking into creeks and ...