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The Beach Boys Played Here. Now It’s a Toxic Dust Bowl.

Season 2 Episode 5 | 5m 13s

The Salton Sea once rivaled Yosemite in tourist visits. Today, it’s a toxic environmental disaster. Luis Olmedo of Comite Civico del Valle connects the dots between industrial runoff, migrant farmworkers, and the health crisis brewing at this shrinking desert lake. What’s being done to save it — if anything?

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