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Donald Trump's Buttrick Ave Golf Course Spewing Out Gas

Donald Trump's Buttrick Ave Golf Course Spewing Out Gas
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Former Associate Business Editor, The Huffington Post

This is no fart joke: An area of the Bronx is grappling with dangerously high methane gas levels, and Donald Trump may be to blame.

The construction of his company’s new $97 million golf course, located at Ferry Point in the Bronx, may be responsible for the release of potentially explosive levels of methane since its being built above a dump closed some 50 years ago, the New York Daily News reports. The dump's decomposing garbage is the reason behind the alarmingly high gas levels nearby, experts say.

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