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Tumor-free flounder are just 1 dividend from the cleanup of Boston Harbor

  • Written by Michael Moore, Senior Scientist, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Hull Peninsula and part of the Boston Harbor Islands National Recreation Area. Eric Kilby/Flickr, CC BY-SA

Thirty years ago, during the 1988 presidential campaign, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush took a boat ride across Boston Harbor and derided the environmental record of his rival, Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis, calling the polluted...

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