The EPA’s Pollution Estimates Stink. Everyone Uses Them Anyway

This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Engineer Jim Southerland was hired by the US Environmental Protection Agency in 1971 to join the nascent war on air pollution. He came to relish the task, investigating orange clouds from an ammunition plant in Tennessee and taking air samples from strip mines in …

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