Are there any pollution-spewing industries around your house? You can find out here.
When this pops up, scroll to the bottom.
Then put in your zip code and start looking around. Click on any site to see what's coming out of it.
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A Balkan Experience Without Leaving My City
1 hour ago
14 comments:
Oh, I don't need that map. The EPA requires all car owners in the Greater Cleveland area to have an emissions e-check done every other year to make sure nothing too noxious is coming from the exhaust pipe. It's a rule that's been in effect for about 35 years now, and isn't about to end any time soon, meaning the region's environmental problems aren't about to end any time soon, either.
I don't have any major factories near my home, so there isn't a lot of commercial pollution apart from the smoke from people's wood-burning heaters at this time of year. There is however, pollution from the next-door-across-the-lobby unit whenever he is smoking whatever it is that has a really thick acrid stink.
Shudder.
Almost all industry causes pollution and far too many companies attempt to conceal it.
Kirk - This isn't about cars. It's about the industrial plant that might be close to your house.
I had to rescue both of you from spam jail.
River - I would be plotting a counteraction to the across the lobby person.
Sue - Here's just one Aussy map. https://pfas.australianmap.net/
The closest one to me appears to be the Pentagon, which is not surprising. It was full of asbestos for much of the 22 years I worked there, although most of it was probably removed during the recent renovation of the building. One year, a chemical tank in a photo lab on the floor directly above my desk sprung a leak and it actually rained asbestos-infused photo chemicals into our office. The good old days.
I love Pro Publica! Nothing anywhere in my zip code.
Bill - When capacitors would break open in telephone equipment and spill PCBs all over we would clean up the mess with rags and our bare hands.
Kathy - Nothing around my house either.
So glad I got out of Texas! Spent far too long in that cesspool. Manitou Springs is much cleaner!
Lady - We've got a refinery just north of St. Louis. Luckily the wind is out of the west and blows the fumes away from us.
In that case, the nearest hot spot is 12.8 miles from the Cleveland suburb in which I reside, and 9.0 miles from the Cleveland suburb in which I work. So it's safer if I stay home. But I need the money.
Kirk - Do you have to drive through the area? Make sure your car's air is on recirculate.
I'm thanks?
Cloudia - How's the clean-up going near your water supply?
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