Fence Post.(News)(Letter to the Editor)

0 Comments | Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), January, 2005

More good reasons to clean up our air For more than a year, our Clean Air Counts program has successfully recruited businesses to voluntarily reduce air pollution. On Dec. 17, the federal Environmental Protection Agency doubled the reasons for joining our cause. On that day, the EPA cited the Chicago metropolitan area for failing to attain minimum health standards for the amount of soot in the air we breathe.

Numerous studies say that fine particulate matter - less than one-thirtieth the width of a human hair - penetrates deep into the lungs, enters the bloodstream and can cause serious health problems. Fine particulate matter is caused by fuel combustion in motor vehicles, at power plants and in industrial processes. Over the past year, nearly 150...