Cook County is your worst neighbor when it comes to smog, according to new data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. LatinoVoicesWTTW
Natural Resources Defense Councilsaid this report wasn’t really a surprise for her, since she grew up on the Southeast Side of Chicago next to a large BP refinery.
“I experienced that interstate pollution day in and out and saw the health disparities that come with that, such as the asthma rates that are abominable,” Ramirez said. “Our air monitors are registering some of the worst air quality in the state.” Meanwhile, north of Chicago in the majority Latino suburb of Waukegan, one in three children suffers from asthma, said Dulce Ortiz, co-chair of“It’s a lot higher than the national rate,” Ortiz said. “It’s very disheartening. … Air pollution has severely impacted our health. We did have a coal plant right on our lakefront. We did transition that coal plant out last June, but I think the damage has been done.
In Illinois, it’s not big power plants behind the big pollution, according to Phillip Boda, faculty member at the
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