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Cory Booker: “I met with local residents in a large group and heard their stories, painful stories about how the drinking water in…”

On the recordFebruary 6, 2018
I met with local residents in a large group and heard their stories, painful stories about how the drinking water in their wells has been poisoned by runoff from the CAFOs.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

Editor's note · Context

Booker shares residents' accounts of water contamination due to agricultural runoff.

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