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2024-05-21 15:27:05 UTC - HELPFUL
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The tweet implies that microplastics as a category caused the salmon to die, when it was a specific sensitivity to 6PPD-quinone. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.abd6951 The EPA is reviewing the use of the chemical and may ban its use in tires, which would address Salmon die off. https://e360.yale.edu/digest/epa-tire-chemical-salmon-6ppd
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