Chicago's Toxic Air Despite the shocking stock market and housing market crash, The Chicago Tribune's lead article on Monday, September 29, 2008 was about "Our Toxic Air." According to this article, Cook County ranked the worst in the United States for dangerous air pollution. This data, based on a study by the EPA performed in 2005 is just becoming available. Local industries are pouring to toxic chemicals into our air which can cause cancer, lung disease, and other problems. One of the worst offenders, Avery Dennison company, is in the nearby community of Niles. If the EPA is supposed to be protecting us, how come this data was not available several years ago? What can we as local residents do to protect our air and environment? We also need to look out for underprivileged people living close to these major polluting industries.
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It's really scary to think that in all of the US our county has the worst air pollution, I would think that it would be worse in LA or New York City. I am also really suprised that our local government has not warned us or told us how we can change this. Is there anything we can do? And I also have the same question as Kimber, why was this not addressed before?
I had no idea that Cook County is one of the biggest polluters in the United States. I thought that LA was really bad like Maddie said. I think that people should know about this problem and help in anyway possible. I now that I did not know anything about this until Kimber posted, we need to find more information to help.
I agree. This issue is very serious and needs to be addressed. Im very surprised that it has not been talked about much. It is also very weird that our county would have the most pollution. Like Maddie said, I would have thought that other big cities would have more air pollution and Chicago. I would like to learn more about this issue and I wonder why we have not been talking about it more and how we should prevent it?
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