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Saturday, November 16, 2019

benzene standard needs to change




Louisiana’s benzene standard is more than twice as lenient as the Texas standard, which is over 30 times looser than that of Massachusetts. (States enforce their standards in different ways.)


Lylla Younes  Oct 30 2019  Why Louisiana's Air Quality is going from bad to worse in 3 Charts
https://www.propublica.org/article/why-louisianas-air-quality-is-going-from-bad-to-worse-in-3-charts

Read the full investigation here:
https://www.propublica.org/article/welcome-to-cancer-alley-where-toxic-air-is-about-to-get-worse
This article was produced in partnership with The Times-Picayune and The Advocate, which is a member of the ProPublica Local Reporting Network 
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