<story><title>Visualizing Toxic Air</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/nerds/visualizing-toxic-air</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nerdponx</author><text>For anyone wondering what value governments provide, it&amp;#x27;s this. Yes, ProPublica is the one who did the analysis and data viz, but the federal government used some of our income taxes to collect this dataset. This is a clear case of the value that governments can provide with your tax money, and something that almost certainly would not be provided (free of charge!) by the free market.</text></comment>
<story><title>Visualizing Toxic Air</title><url>https://www.propublica.org/nerds/visualizing-toxic-air</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>jefftk</author><text>The map: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.propublica.org&amp;#x2F;toxmap&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;projects.propublica.org&amp;#x2F;toxmap&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>