Anonymous message boards often become hate-filled cesspools where unknown commentators wage personal attacks and spew racist and misogynistic venom.

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Chockablock with heavy metals, chemical waste, air pollutants and, in the case of infamous Chernobyl, Ukraine, deadly radiation, these are the worst industrial cesspools on earth--and they rarely make headlines.

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Unlike the off-balance-sheet cesspools that hid losses at Enron, these energy partnerships are publicly traded, many on the New York Stock Exchange, and offer a respectable amount of liquidity and transparency.

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