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Kirsten Gillibrand: “The county I live in, in Rensselaer county has been polluted…”

Featuring: Kirsten Gillibrand, Democratic | U.S. Senate New York

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Podcast Interview with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand on Her Presidential Campaign and Policy Proposals

Published | Video Starts at 14:56

And so you take any part of this country, they have brownfield sites, they have dirty water from eras of pollution by different manufacturers. New York State, we have the largest Superfund site called the Hudson river because of PCBs. The county I live in, in Rensselaer county has been polluted by companies that have been manufacturing with plast. And so now we have PFOA in our water. So you need to focus on clean air and clean water as a major goal for addressing global climate change and for addressing a green economy. (14:56–15:04)

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Asserts that Rensselaer County has been polluted by companies manufacturing with plastic.

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