{"id":685,"date":"2010-11-08T11:51:46","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T18:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/?p=685"},"modified":"2010-11-08T12:32:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T19:32:55","slug":"chicago-riders-sickened-by-toxic-diesel-soot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/chicago-riders-sickened-by-toxic-diesel-soot\/","title":{"rendered":"Chicago Riders Sickened by Toxic Diesel Soot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Train riders exposed to toxic diesel soot, paper finds <\/strong>(Chicago Tribune)<\/em><\/p>\n

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Soot Components<\/p><\/div>\n

(Read it and weep, fellow air breathers! \u00a0Adage with its smokestack and vast fleet of diesel trucks is coming to Shelton…breathe deep.)<\/em><\/p>\n

Day after day, thousands of commuters are breathing high levels of toxic diesel pollution trapped in Chicago’s two major<\/p>\n

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Simpson Train Exhaust Destroys Lives<\/p><\/div>\n

rail stations and even inside the trains they ride, a Chicago Tribune investigation has found.<\/p>\n

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. \u00a0Levels of the lung and heart damaging pollution jump higher on platforms, where acrid blue clouds of<\/p>\n

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Unregulated Diesel Truck Pollution<\/p><\/div>\n

diesel exhaust hovers between trains, many of them built in the 1970’s.<\/p>\n

It get dramatically worse after boarding a train. \u00a0As 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<\/p>\n

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Diesel Smoke Sickens and Kills<\/p><\/div>\n

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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!<\/em><\/p>\n

This is an example of the clean<\/strong> energy Adage promises to Mason County residents.<\/em><\/p>\n

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One of Adage's 300 Trips\/day? 24\/7?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Adage Fleet?<\/p><\/div>\n

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Grim Manages Mason County's Future<\/p><\/div>\n

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Train riders exposed to toxic diesel soot, paper finds (Chicago Tribune) (Read it and weep, fellow air breathers! \u00a0Adage with its smokestack and vast fleet of diesel trucks is coming to Shelton…breathe deep.) Day after day, thousands of commuters are … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":701,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amicuscuria.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}