Most EPA Pollution Estimates Are Unreliable, So Why Is Everyone Still Using Them?

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By The Center for Public IntegrityJan 29, 2018, 8:51 am162 pts
By Rachel Leven Engineer Jim Southerland was hired by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) in 1971 to join the nascent war on air pollution . He came to relish the task, investigating orange clouds from an ammunition plant in Tennessee and taking air samples from strip mines in Wyoming. Among his…

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