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Completely unsurprised to see the chemical company dumping ground that is my home state on there.

The movie dark waters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq0NmehbOG0) is about the town I grew up in.

The same people who dumped the same crap in my country (Belgium): https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2022/04/09/is-there-pfas-contam...

Interactive PFSA map for the US: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/

The map reminds me of this infamous plot [1]. Look at how many more points there are in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Massachusetts than surrounding states. Naively we would conclude that these states have way more PFAS contamination. But maybe they are just considerably better about testing for and reporting it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#/media/File:...

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