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200,000 plaintiffs
In 2015, an iron ore dam collapsed in the municipality of Mariana, spilling the equivalent of 25,000 Olympic swimming pools of toxic sludge into the surrounding area. Entire towns were buried under the mud, 19 people were killed—and the Rio Doce was left devastated....
