Would New York City like for us to send all our poop up there forever?

Sherleen Pike, who lives about a half-mile from the railroad track in Parrish, Ala., where a train carrying human waste from New York City has been parked for two months, waiting to be brought to a nearby landfill. The federal government bans New York from dumping its excrement in the ocean.

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Sherleen Pike, who lives about a half-mile from the railroad track in Parrish, Ala., where a train carrying human waste from New York City has been parked for two months, waiting to be brought to a nearby landfill. The federal government bans New York from dumping its excrement in the ocean.

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Caroline Cournoyer is GOVERNING's senior web editor.
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