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Cory Booker: When we call this environmental injustice, it is painful to me that the folks being harmed by this are…

On the recordDecember 5, 2017
When we call this environmental injustice, it is painful to me that the folks being harmed by this are disproportionately seeing themselves exposed to hazardous waste and pollution in this data I am showing at 20 percent higher rates of birth defects.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker addresses the disproportionate impact of pollution on marginalized communities.

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