EXPOSED: Living near a toxic waste site can take a year off your life, according to new study

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By Damon Hines, staff writer

(NaturalHealth365) From sea to shining sea, America is riddled with industrial wastelands. Manufacturing plants, ship channels, abandoned mines, smelters, landfills, illicit dumps – all of these places fall under an umbrella term: Superfund sites. There are more than 1,300 Superfund sites in the U.S., toxic wastelands so contaminated with hazardous waste and toxic chemicals that the federal government has designated them a national priority to clean up.

But what is it like to actually live near one of these contaminated sites? According to a new, first-of-its-kind study published in Nature Communications, living in a …read more

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