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Cory Booker: “We now factually know, because of longitudinal data, babies born within 1 mile of a Superfund site, prior to the site…”

On the recordDecember 5, 2017
We now factually know, because of longitudinal data, babies born within 1 mile of a Superfund site, prior to the site cleanups, have a 20 percent higher rate of birth defects.
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Cory Booker
Democratic · New Jersey

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Booker presents data linking Superfund sites to increased birth defects.

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