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Completely unsurprised to see the chemical company dumping ground that is my home state on there. The movie dark waters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq0Nme
by NaturalPhallacy 5y ago
Completely unsurprised to see the chemical company dumping ground that is my home state on there.
The movie dark waters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq0NmehbOG0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq0NmehbOG0) is about the town I grew up in.
- LaundroMat 5y agoThe same people who dumped the same crap in my country (Belgium): https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2022/04/09/is-there-pfas-contamination-in-your-street-or-neighbourhood/ https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2022/04/09/is-there-pfas-contam...
- knweiss 5y agoInteractive PFSA map for the US: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/ https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/
- bscphil 5y agoThe map reminds me of this infamous plot [1]. Look at how many more points there are in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Massachusetts than surrounding states. Naively we would conclude that these states have way more PFAS contamination. But maybe they are just considerably better about testing for and reporting it? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#/media/File:Survivorship-bias.svg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#/media/File:...