We're Number 1 !!!

[buckeyegrad]

To paraphrase the rich Texan from the Simpsons:

We got rid of the environment in Ohio years ago, and we've never been better!


Ohio leads nation in air pollution levels

The Associated Press
6/24/2004, 6:56 a.m. ET


COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A government report says Ohio continues to lead the nation in levels of air pollution — and it's getting worse.

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reported Wednesday that Ohio businesses released 133.9 million pounds of toxic chemicals into the air in 2002, a 10 percent increase from 2001.

The EPA's annual Toxic Release Inventory report tallies more than 650 pollutants released into the air, ground and water.

While air pollution rose, the overall release of 253.9 million pounds of toxins by Ohio's 1,670 reporting businesses in 2002 was a 0.3 percent decrease from 2001.

Mark Besel, a specialist at the Ohio EPA, said the federal numbers closely matched the state's.

"Ohio is quite an industrial state," Besel said. "We've been in the top 10 since the list was changed in 1998 to include power-generating facilities."

Pollution also increased nationwide, the report said. The nation's 24,380 reporting businesses released 4.79 billion pounds of toxins in 2002, up 5 percent from 2001.

 

[osugrad21]

The EPA has done its best to destroy industry in Ohio...look at the coal mines in the Ohio Valley.

 

[kinch]

I forget what happened but I remember other states, in New England and maybe North Carolina or something, suing Ohio for having such poluted release from their power plants compared to cleaner states.

 

[Thump]

What's wrong with pollution? Hey, I've got taste buds on my testicles but other than that I'm A-OK.

 

[NorthShoreBuck]

I think the key point was that so much of the pollution is from old, coal burning power plants. It has been awhile but I do not remember working in any power plant in Ohio that burned anything else but coal. Much of the coal was the high sulphur variety that was mined in Ohio and WVA.


Many other states have newer gas turbines and plants that burn less polluting natural gas and even expensive oil.

Is anyone ready to say nuclear power?

 

[kinch]

Another problem the New England states had was that Ohio purposefully put really really tall smokestacks near their borders - so the polution would stay out of Ohio and settle elsewhere.

Heh.

 

[buckeyefool]

Another problem the New England states had was that Ohio purposefully put really really tall smokestacks near their borders - so the polution would stay out of Ohio and settle elsewhere.



Well seems to Me this is just good planning on our part. I mean why would We want to go and let the smoke stacks polute our own state?

 

[NorthShoreBuck]

Depends on the direction of the wind my friends. :)

Actually many of the high stacks were necessary to clear hills and mountains around the plant so the stack effect and thermals would disperse the smoke.

 

[osugrad21]

My Dad worked in one of the Ohio Edison plants along the Ohio River...they had to cut jobs drastically in order to install scrubbers for the pollution content according to the EPA...

I can't disagree with the concept, but the way it was handled, so abruptly, could have been handled better to ensure these workers' livelihoods

 

[NorthShoreBuck]

Grad21

Stuebenville? Spelling?

Isn't that the plant they built the scrubbers over the road because they did not have enough room?