Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities

Jim Morris, Ronnie Greene, Chris Hamby, Keith Epstein, Elizabeth Shogren, Howard Berkes, Sandra Bartlett and Susanne Reber, Center for Public Integrity and NPR

“Poisoned Places” exposed the regulatory failures and political forces that cause millions of Americas to continue breathing unsafe air and, for the first time, publicly revealed the EPA’s internal “watch list” of
the nation’s most troublesome air polluters. This report triggered immediate enforcement action in two states, a push for openness by the EPA and an avalanche of coverage across the U.S.

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