Toxic Air and Our Children’s Schools
Air pollution drives me nuts. You can’t see it, you can’t touch it, and unless it’s really bad, you can’t even smell it. And unlike water pollution, you can’t even filter it out of your life.
So I was pretty disturbed to see this report that just came out from USA Today that took a look at the amout of air pollution that can be found around our children’s schools. The report, entitled The Smokestack Effect: Toxic Air and America’s Schools, compared industrial pollution information collected by the Environmental Protection Agency with the location of the nation’s 128,000 schools to determine which schools had the highest exposure to toxic air pollutants.
So how clean is the air around your child’s school? Check out the study’s interactive map and school finder to see where your school stands.
How hubris, corruption and greed resulted in the colossal collapse of the global economy.
In a world in which too many politicians are posers; too many economists are deluded; too many business powerbrokers with great wealth are con artists, gamblers and cheats; and too many of their absurdly enriched minions/’talking heads’ in the mainstream media parrot whatsoever serves political convenience and economic expediency, truth about global climate change is buried amid cascading disinformation and anti-information developed from a `tool box’ of pernicious rhetorical devices.
Steven Earl Salmony
AWAREness Campaign on the Human Population,
established 2001
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