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"By matching the locations of Superfund sites and their pollutant accumulation periods with the birthplaces and birth years of these American-born CEOs, we identify 734 unique Superfund CEOs and 2,267 non-Superfund CEOs"

Certainly a bigger sample than I was expecting.

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1 in 4 people live within 3 miles of a superfund site, so it's actually spot on.

We really have tried to destroy ourselves over the years.

There's a Superfund site about 10 miles from my house. Luckily it's close to the headwaters for a major source of our drinking water.

Cancer rates here are really high.

Surely they're not connected.

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