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A celebrated startup promised Kentuckians green jobs. It gave them a ‘grueling hell on earth.’

This story was produced by Grist and was co-published with the Kentucky Center for Investigative Reporting.The workers had spent the morning of November 8, 2021, clipping, trussing, and trellising hundreds of thousands of tomato plants that twisted almost four stories into the air. They were inside one of the world’s largest high-tech greenhouses, which sat on more than 60 acres of a former cattle field in Morehead, Kentucky.As one of the greenhouse workers, who I’ll call Nora, sat down for lunc...

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