Train riders exposed to toxic diesel soot, paper finds (Chicago Tribune)
(Read it and weep, fellow air breathers! Adage with its smokestack and vast fleet of diesel trucks is coming to Shelton…breathe deep.)
Day after day, thousands of commuters are breathing high levels of toxic diesel pollution trapped in Chicago’s two major
rail stations and even inside the trains they ride, a Chicago Tribune investigation has found.
Testing by the newspaper found that the amount of diesel soot lingering in the air steadily increases as commuters walk deeper into Union Station of the Ogilvie Transportation Center. Levels of the lung and heart damaging pollution jump higher on platforms, where acrid blue clouds of
diesel exhaust hovers between trains, many of them built in the 1970’s.
It get dramatically worse after boarding a train. As the doors close and the locomotive pulls out of the station, Tribune testing found, the air trapped inside the stainless-steel cars contains levels of diesel soot up to 72 times higher than on the streets
outside. (c)
It is estimated the amount of pollution the fleet of diesel trucks serving Adage will release into the community to be 7X that of what the bio-incinerator itself will release!
This is an example of the clean energy Adage promises to Mason County residents.
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This sounds pretty awesome, wish I lived there and traveled on those trains. I love diesel exhaust!
I hang out behind diesel vehicles and breath ur in.
I love the smell and I want soot in my lungs. I’m really into lung damage and I love it when I inhale so much I cough up black shit because I know that so much more of it is permanently lodged deep inside my unfortunate young lungs which I will continue to pump full of diesel until my lungs are eventually destroyed.
I love ruining my lungs!