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Category: Pollution

  • Pompton Lakes Pollution

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    DuPont’s legacy in Pompton Lakes, NJ looms large for homeowners in one area of town. Polluted groundwater emits toxic vapors that led to elevated levels of kidney cancer and non-Hodgkins lymphoma in the “plume” neighborhood. The vapors were seeping into homes through their basements. Now vents have been installed in about 330 of these homes…

  • Ocean Pollution

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    We take our oceans for granted. They are so big, and we have been dumping garbage into them for so long that it is easy to think there are no risks. In March, USA Today and other news outlets reported that the “World’s largest collection of ocean garbage is twice the size of Texas.” In…