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a toxic site a day



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an online data visualization application that analyzes 1 toxic site per day that is currently active in the Superfund program run by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). the information portal shows different aspects of each toxic site, such as the address, the location, a hazardous ranking score, amount of people living in the vicinity, & so on.

in the end, the archive will consist of 365 visualizations of some of the worst toxic sites in the U.S., roughly a quarter of the total number on the Superfund's National Priorities List (NPL).

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