<story><title>The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones”</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>kaiju0</author><text>This is a pretty typical growth pattern. Industrial zone establishes and city is set far away in a safe area. City expands and resident need cheap housing. The cheap housing is built near the industrial zone as that is how economic forces work. People then see this and say they built industrial next to the poor people when the opposite occurred. Now the industry is giving cancer to poor people and needs to be punished. Who is right and who is wrong?</text></comment>
<story><title>The EPA allows polluters to turn neighborhoods into “sacrifice zones”</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/article/toxmap-poison-in-the-air</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>yellow_lead</author><text>Some anecdotes as someone who lived near one of these locations growing up (fortunately about 30 mi away)&lt;p&gt;1) Every now and then, our entire town would smell terrible, presumably from the winds carrying the emissions to us&lt;p&gt;2) A friend who moved here during my high school had to move away since his whole family suffered from asthma and it was made much noticeably worse here&lt;p&gt;3) Heard a couple huge explosions during my lifetime from these refineries sadly.</text></comment>