I find it interesting that this article doesn't mention any of the  
pollutants that have grabbed my attention since living here in Iowa.

The Alabama spring air I grew up in smelled like beautiful flowers.   
The Iowa spring air I encountered when I moved here smelled like a  
chemical factory. All summer long, my neighbors barbecue with lighter  
fluid, which wafts in through my open windows and makes itself at home  
on my walls and furniture and in my unwilling lungs.

I remember one of our governors saying that one of Iowa's assets was  
it's clean air.  Everywhere I look people are spraying chemicals over  
the ground and the ever-present Iowa winds broadcast them.  During the  
severe loss of soil during the 70's it was blowing all the way to my  
former home in Birmingham, Alabama.

At least 1/5 of an EPA regulated nutrient comes down in the Iowa rain.

Certainly big bad industry is a major problem, but we need to  
recognize that we do to each other is equally or perhaps even more  
destructive.

Peggy Murdock

On Jun 15, 2009, at 10:21 AM, Neila Seaman wrote:

> The Des Moines Register is doing a series this week on air pollution  
> in Iowa.  Here is the link to yesterday's cover page article (which  
> included a photo of Phyllis Mains and a quote by Jim Redmond).  You  
> can access the other articles from this link.  Tomorrow, Chase Davis  
> and Perry Beeman will be reporting on coal-fired power plants.
>
> http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090614/NEWS/906140352/1001
>
> This link is to a map the Iowa's top air polluters.  You can look at  
> company pollution statistics by city for 6 chemicals and two other  
> contaminants.
>
> http://data.desmoinesregister.com/pollution/iowa-pollution-map.php
>
> Neila Seaman
> Director
> Iowa Chapter of Sierra Club
> 3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
> Des Moines, IA  50310
> 515-277-8868
> iowa.sierraclub.org
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