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Silicon Valley is home to more toxic Superfund sites than anywhere else in the country

Silicon Valley is home to more toxic Superfund sites than anywhere else in the country

Before the sleek tech campuses, Silicon Valley was a thoroughly industrial landscape, producing the world’s computer chips and other high-tech components. From the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, when the manufacturing industry moved to East Asia, that meant the toxic chemicals used to make computer chips, semiconductors, and the like were being handled and dumped (sometimes…