How Polluted Are You?

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If you're concerned about the pollution in your immediate area; state, county, town, just click the little ad in the upper right hand corner of your screen, "Scorecard" which takes you to the Enviornmental Defense Fund's Score on pollution for your area. You may be surprised. I doubt if it's had enought time to update the flooded areas after Floyd hit.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), September 23, 1999

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Gilda,

No ad on my screen. Can you add a link or address?

-- Mara Wayne (MaraWayne@aol.com), September 23, 1999.


Gilda,

Do you mean this link?

SCORECARD

-- Jim Morris (prism@bevcomm.net), September 23, 1999.


This morning when I posted, it was in the upper right hand corner of my screen; now it isn't. Thank's again Jim.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), September 23, 1999.

You're welcome, Gilda.

I wasn't aware of the scorecard prior to your post. It looks like an interesting site and I hope to take some time later today to peruse it.

Thanks,

-- Jim Morris (prism@bevcomm.net), September 23, 1999.


Gilda,

I checked this sit out a few months back. I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it's totally inaccurate. Because if it isn't, according to the score card for my area, I shouldn't even be bothering with Y2K preps.

My life expectancy, based on this data, should be somewhere between "already dead and just doesn't know it yet" and "might not be too badly decomposed, by rollover".

-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), September 24, 1999.



Bokonon, LOL--maybe you're some kind of super human. Who knows? Your genes may be worth money. Seriously, I know what you mean. I discovered the town nearest me had a lot of pollution from TCE, but it was reported in our local paper much later than Scorecard.

-- gilda (jess@listbot.com), September 24, 1999.

In 1990, this county ranked among the worst 20% of all counties in the US in terms of the number of people living in areas where cancer risk from hazardous air pollutants exceeds 1 in 10,000.

95,599 people (population) in MORGAN County face a cancer risk more than 100 times the goal set by the Clean Air Act.

42% of the air cancer risk is from mobile sources

34% of the air cancer risk is from area sources

24% of the air cancer risk is from point sources



-- sandi in alabama (sndihere@mailcity.com), September 24, 1999.


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