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Pollution

Air Of Injustice: African Americans and Power Plant Pollution, Black Leadership Forum, Clear The Air, Georgia Coalition For The Peoples’ Agenda, Southern Organizing Committee For Economic and Social Justice, October 2002 (420 KB)

Air Of Injustice: How Air Pollution Affects the Health of Hispanics and Latinos, League of United Latin American Citizens, 2004 (517 KB)

Air Toxics Emmissions Inventory For The Southeast Chicago Area, United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1987 (2.46 MB)

Airborne Fine Particulate Matter (PM10) in Southeast Chicago, Illinois State Water Survey Atmospheric Sciences Division, 1991 (563 KB)

Area-Wide Distribution Of Lead, Copper, And Cadmium In Air Particulates From Chicago And Northwest Indiana, Paul R. Harrison, John W. Winchester, Department of Health, Education, and Welfare,

May 1970 (28.13 MB)

Atmospheric Research and Monitoring Study of Hazardous Substances, Donald F. Gatz, Clyde W. Sweet, Illinois State Water Survey (ILSWS), Report # RR-E07, October 1985 (3.99 MB)

Canada's Tar Sands: The Most Destructive Project On Earth, National Environmental Defense, Toronto, Canada, February 2008 (964 KB)

Chemicals of Emerging Concern In The Great Lakes Region, Merih

Otker Uslu, Nihar Biswas, Saad Jasim, Great Lakes Regional Office, International Joint Commission, August 2011 (740 KB)

Cleaning Up Air Pollution From America’s Power Plants: The Facts, National Environmental Trust, Washington, D.C., 2002 (2.18 MB)

Comparison of Measured Concentrations, TRI Emissions, and Modeled Cumulative Outdoor Concentrations of Hazardous Air Pollutants in Southeast Chicago (Draft), USEPA, 2002 (13.6 MB)

Concentrations Of Polynuclear Aromatic Hydrocarbons and Inorganic
Constituents in Ambient Surface Soils, Chicago, Illinois: 2001-02,

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Report 03-4105, 2003 (2.29 MB)

Contaminated Sediments in Ports and Waterways: Cleanup Strategies & Technologies, Committee on Contaminated Marine Sediments, National Research Council, 1997 (2.38 MB)

Cradle To Grave: The Environmental Impacts Of Coal, Clean Air Task Force (CATF), June 2001 (437 KB)

Danger In The Air: Unhealthy Levels of Air Pollution in 2003,

Environment Colorado, September 2004 (440 KB)

Darkening Skies: Trends Toward Increasing Power Plant Emissions,

U.S. PIRG Education Fund, Clear The Air, March 2002 (1.06 MB)

Dirty Air, Dirty Power: Mortality and Health Damage Due To Air

Pollution From Power Plants, Clean Air Task Force, June 2004 (833 KB)

Dirty Energy's Assault On Our Health: Ozone Pollution, Lauren

Randall, Environment New Mexico, March 2011 (1.99 MB)

Dominion State Line Energy: IDEM Final Discharge Permit Modification Application, Dominion State Line Energy LLC, Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM), August 2010 (2.02 MB)

Emissions Of Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal-Fired Power

Plants, Environmental Health and Engineering Inc., The American

Lung Association, March 2011 (2.23 MB)

Fishing for Trouble: How Toxic Mercury Contaminates Fish in U.S. Waterways, Environment Colorado Research & Policy Center,

October 2004 (1.38 MB)

Former Hammond Manufactured Gas Plant (MGP) Site: Supplemental River Sediment Investigation, ThermoRetec Consulting Corporation, Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), September 1999

Illinois Annual Air Quality Report 1997, ILEPA, 1998 (627 KB)

Illinois Annual Air Quality Report 1998, ILEPA, 1999 (508 KB)

Illinois Annual Air Quality Report 1999, ILEPA, 2000 (876 KB)

Illinois Annual Air Quality Report 2000, ILEPA, 2001 (663 KB)

Illinois Annual Air Quality Report 2001, ILEPA, 2002 (800 KB)

Illinois Annual Air Quality Report 2002, ILEPA, 2003 (895 KB)

Illinois Annual Air Quality Report 2003, ILEPA, 2004 (1.19 MB)

Illinois Annual Air Quality Report 2004, ILEPA, 2005 (1.19 MB)

Illinois Annual Air Quality Report 2005, ILEPA, 2006 (1.32 MB)

lllinois Annual Air Quality Report 2006, ILEPA, 2007 (1.90 MB)

Illinois' Dirty Power Plants Fact Sheet, Clean The Air (682 KB)

Laid To Waste: The Dirty Secret of Combustion Waste From

America's Power Plants, Citizens Coal Council, Hoosier Environ-

mental Council, Clean Air Task Force (CATF), March 2000 (1.29 MB)

Lethal Loophole: How the ‘Clear Skies’ Bill Allows Oil Refineries and Chemical Plants to Emit More Toxic Air Pollutants, Environment Colorado, March 2005 (150 KB)

Lethal Legacy: A Comprehensive Look At America’s Dirtiest Power Plants, Brandon Wu, US PIRG Education Fund, 2003 (372 KB)

Mercury in Precipitation in Indiana: January 2001 – December 2003, Scientific Investigations Report 2007–5063, USGS, 2007 (6.62 MB)

National Management Measures To Control Nonpoint Source
Pollution From Urban Areas, United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA), Office of Water, November 2005 (5.54 MB)

Oil Pollution - Southern End Of Lake Michigan (September 17-26, 1967): Summary Report, FWPCA, October 1967 2007 (1.02 MB)

Plain English Guide to the Clean Air Act, USEPA, April 2007 (1.09 MB)

PCBs In The Surficial Sediment Of The Indiana Harbor and Ship Canal, Lake Michigan, Andres Martinez, Karin Norström, Kai Wang, Keri C. Hornbuckle, November 2010 (803 KB)

Pollution On The Rise: Local Trends in Power Plant Pollution, Clear

The Air, U.S. PIRG Education Fund, January 2005 (818 KB)

Power To Protect: The Critical Role States Play In Cleaning Up
Pollution From Mobile Sources, US PIRG Education Fund,

May 2005 (1.06 MB)

Pure Air On The Lake: Advanced Flue Gas Desulfurization Prjoect - Bailly Generating Station, NIPSCO, January 1991 (7.35 MB)

Reducing Toxic Air Pollution In Lake Michigan, Delta Institute,

Lake Michigan Forum, May 2001 (1.44 MB)

Relationships of Indoor, Outdoor, and Personal Air (RIOPA): Part II, Analyses of Concentrations of Particulate Matter Species, The Health Effects Institute, Number 130 Part II, August 2007 (3.17 MB)

Risky Fishing: Power Plant Mercury Pollution and Illinois Sport Fish, Max Muller, Illinois PIRG Education Fund, April 2006 (1.96 MB)

Simulation Of Urban Runoff And Pollutant Loading From The Greater Lake Calumet Area , Illinois State Water Survey, Office of Spatial Data Analysis and Information, SWS Contract Report 504, 1990 (932 KB)

Speaking Of Clean Air..., Chicago Reader, December 2005 (682 KB)

Toxic Power: What The Toxics Release Inventory Tells Us About Power Plant Pollution, National Environmental Trust for Clear the Air, August 2000 (1.06 MB)

U.S. Latinos and Air Pollution: A Call to Action, Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Center for American Progress, National Wildlife Federation (NWF), National Latino Coalition on Climate Change (NLCCC), September 2011 (750 KB)

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