Environmental Pollution: The US Is as Clean as It Gets
Other countries are much dirtier; let's focus on helping them
The Exelon Byron Nuclear Generating Stations in Byron, Illinois, in this file photo. Developed countries like the United States have low pollution levels overall, the real polluters are the developing countries. JEFF HAYNES/AFP/Getty Images
There’s a delightful phrase that describes the way America and most of the rest of the first world approaches environmental issues and related public health risks: first-world problems.
Assuming one does not have an ax to grind, any reasonable person evaluating all available data would be forced to conclude three things:
Richard Trzupek
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Rich Trzupek is a chemist, author and nationally recognized air quality expert. He lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
