That’s entirely modeled risk?

They basically took emissions and a model the EPA has of cancer risk (wide confidence intervals and all) then came up with risk “zones”.

Exposure wasn’t measured, which is a massive unknown.

I mean, it’s interesting but I’m not sure I’d put much weight into any one individual living in those areas.

Completely unsurprised to see the chemical company dumping ground that is my home state on there.

The movie dark waters (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq0NmehbOG0) is about the town I grew up in.

The same people who dumped the same crap in my country (Belgium): https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2022/04/09/is-there-pfas-contam...

Interactive PFSA map for the US: https://www.ewg.org/interactive-maps/pfas_contamination/map/

The map reminds me of this infamous plot [1]. Look at how many more points there are in North Carolina, New Jersey, and Massachusetts than surrounding states. Naively we would conclude that these states have way more PFAS contamination. But maybe they are just considerably better about testing for and reporting it?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivorship_bias#/media/File:...