Mon November 7, 2011 NPR's Poisoned Places series What is this?
NPR and the Center for Public Integrity are making public for
the first time a watch list of the chronic violators of air
pollution rules. The list was created in 2004 to help Washington
crack down on long-term violators that states and regional EPA
offices had failed to bring into compliance with the Clean Air
Act. NPR and CPI are the first media outlets to obtain and
publish the list, as NPR's Elizabeth Shogren reported today on
Morning Edition. Below is a localized version of the map NPR put
together that plots more than 17,000 sources of air pollution
across the country. You can interact with the map by zooming in
and out and clicking on each colored dot to learn more. You can
view the full searchable map, and learn more about the data,
using the link below. - NPR's full online page with even more
from the Poisoned Places series can be found here. NPR's
instructions on how to explore this map: To begin exploring how
air pollution may affect y