Industrial Pollution, Unhealthy Air Vanderburgh Ranks 89th Worst Among All Counties in America Series: First of a Three-Part Series

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Newly released information from a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency database shows 20 Evansville neighborhoods a about half of the city a rank among the top 5 percent nationally with the highest health risk from industrial air pollution.

Nationally, Vanderburgh County was ranked as 89th out of all 3,141 counties in the country, with a Health Risk Score more than 38 times higher than the national median. The Health Risk Score is a measure created by the EPA to compare pollution health risk between areas.

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Industrial Pollution, Unhealthy Air Vanderburgh Ranks 89th Worst Among All Counties in America Series: First of a Three-Part Series

The nation has more than 65,433 census tracts, and 5 percent of the...

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