Sullivan County Ranks As One Of The Worst Counties In Tennessee For Pollution, According To Website
A website dedicated to providing information about pollution and air quality ranks Sullivan County as one of the worst counties in the state of Tennessee. Scorecard.org lists Sullivan County as 6th in the state for “All Criteria Of Air Pollutants”. It goes on to say Sullivan County is 3rd in Carbon Monoxide concentrations, and 2nd in Lead Quarterly Average Concentration in the air. Gary Mayes with the Sullivan County Health Department and a member of the Ozone Action Partnership says Sullivan County has made a huge effort in cleaning up their air quality. From lowering the speed limit on the interstate through Sullivan County, to working with industry to do their part in lowering emissions. In 2010 the Environmental Protection Agency has implemented stricter air quality standards, something Sullivan County says they are working to meet. As for whether or not people should be concerned about the numbers listed on the website, Mayes says, those numbers could be somewhat outdated. He believes the changes the county has made over the last five years has paid off, and will continue to do so as more and more technology is created to help clean up, what took years to create.
Scorecard.org, says on its website it gets its data from 4-hundred different scientific and governmental agencies.
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One needs to look at the much bigger picture on what is happening at Tennessee Eastman. The Political Economy Research Institute lists Eastman Chemical as rank 11 out of 100 in the top Toxic 100 Index for polluters in the United States. See http://www.peri.umass.edu/Toxic-100-Index.430.0.html. Of the five Eastman plants in the US, 86.21% of Eastman’s score comes from the Kingsport, Tennessee plant.
Now that is some News on the “MODEL CITY”
Yep, we need everyone to be like them, the “MODEL CITY”, the city all want to hope to be.
Guess the ECONOMIC FOOTPRINT of EASTMAN is much more inportant than the CARBON FOOTPRINT !
Good Job Sullivan County… cough-cough…. keep up the good work.. and the pollution too, who care about the environment when they get fat paychecks…
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