October 11, 2011-by John Blair, valleywatch.net editor
A brownish pall seems omnipresent even on a clear day in Evansville, IN, a community with few of its own major pollution sources but is surrounded by numerous coal fired power plants that ship their power far from where it is produced.
Fine particles that emanate from the numerous power plants as they release large volumes of nitrogen oxides and sulfur dioxide form to engulf the region and impact the health of residents both young and old.
Not all but most regional “leaders” seem to dismiss the threat this pollution causes for their constituents and work to be able to actually increase the tremendous amount of pollution our dominant “export” industry is responsible for causing.
Mr Blair
I was wondering if you could give me a idea of what that spooky looking brown cloud that snakes its way from the power plant near Mt Carmel is made of ?
I have never seen anything like it. It seems to hold together all the way into Kentucky.
I live in the shadows of ALCOA and have never seen anything like this.
Thanks for all your work.
Mr. Blair,
I recently moved to the midwest from Texas and live in Newburgh – my concern is the polution levels generated by Alcoa – which is just down the road.
Does EPA monitor the plant on any regular basis? I know the EPA is being curtailed because of corporte demands – and Alcoa is a major employer in the area.
Thank you and Valley Watch for being pro active about environmental concerns.
JKT