Cancer Risk In Alabama: EPA Reports Causes
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Two counties in Alabama make the top 20 list on EPA’s cancer potentila list. There are reasons supplied by the Alabama government. They caused it.
EPA rating Alabama
Jefferson County is number eighteen and Tuscaloosa County is number twelve on the EPA’s new cancer risk from dirty air list.
While politicians and Wayne Studyvin, director of environmental health for the Jefferson County
Department of Health, downplay these findings as a minimal risk there are other causes involved.
The state has allowed companies to exceed their pollution permits by two percent a year.
A federal court has found the practice to be an “illegal, unilateral modification of state regulations.”
Birmingham was the fifth most polluted city in 2008.
Children in Birmingham have a much higher rate of asthma due to particulate content of the air. This is also known as soot.
via EPA rating Alabama.
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