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by kingkawn 2304 days ago
In upstate New York he held back for over a decade any effort to mitigate legacy PCB pollution from GE’s mostly closed factories there. He funded AstroTurf organizations and downplayed research showing connections between PCB pollution and health problems.
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3M management is doing that here in MN where they're responsible PFAS and the like for leaking into groundwater and exposing workers.

3M also have been trying to cover up their responsibility for these health-damaging outcomes for decades.

https://theintercept.com/2018/07/31/3m-pfas-minnesota-pfoa-p...

For claims like that it helps to link to a source for the data. Making inflammatory statements without backing evidence makes for poor discourse IMO. I found this article that seems to cover the topic: https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Dredging-up-the-tru...
he sounds like a really standup kinda guy