Industrial Air Pollution Far Worse Than Estimated, But Trump’s EPA Shut Down Plan to Fix It

Industrial Air Pollution Far Worse Than Estimated, But Trump’s EPA Shut Down Plan to Fix It

Industrial facilities are emitting far more toxic chemicals than reported, putting millions of nearby residents…

Children's Health Defense

by ProPublica

By Lisa Song

Reporting highlights:

• Unreliable pollution reports: For decades, some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government knew were often unreliable.
• Real pollution levels: Air monitors at coke manufacturers, chemical plants and other industrial facilities showed far higher emissions than the estimates, records viewed by ProPublica show.
• Trump halts new rules: The Trump administration has halted rules requiring more than 130 industrial plants to install air monitors and comply with new emission standards.

For decades, noxious, cancer-causing gases poured from some of the nation’s largest industrial polluters, seeping invisibly from cracks in antiquated pipes or billowing out of smokestacks in plumes that choked the communities nearby.

And for decades, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) tracked those emissions not by monitoring the air but by relying on a kind of honor system…

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