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Cory Booker: I was amazed with the things they control for, age, whether the people smoked or not and concluded that there was a 20…

On the recordJune 9, 2014
I was amazed with the things they control for, age, whether the people smoked or not and concluded that there was a 20 percent increase in birth defects before cleanups of Superfund sites compared to after the remediation.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Senator Booker references a study linking Superfund site cleanups to reduced birth defects.

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