Air Pollution Resources

Use pages 302 - 312 of your textbook along with these links to research the sources of air pollution, the problems air pollution causes and the solutions we can use to reduce the harm caused by air pollution. 

Map of Asthma rates in Chicago neighborhoods  https://www.wttw.com/res/pdf/beat_asthma_press.pdf

Video of activists in Pilsen and Little Village fighting to close the Fisk and Crawford Coal Burning Power Plants in their communities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZqXdG8fVPY
(since it's on YouTube it may be blocked at school, but you can watch it at home.)


Article about protesters at Fisk coal power plant. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-biggers/breaking-chicago-coal-pro_b_866519.html 

The Fisk and Crawford coal burning power plants were finally shut down.... 
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-30/business/chi-closure-of-chicagos-crawford-fisk-electric-plants-ends-coal-era-20120830_1_fisk-and-crawford-midwest-generation-coal-plants

Links to explore for your Air Pollution Posters

http://www.epa.gov/airquality/urbanair/

http://www.catf.us/fossil/problems/

http://www.clean-air-kids.org.uk/airquality.html

http://www.explainthatstuff.com/air-pollution-introduction.html 

http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/171289/ 

https://eo.ucar.edu/kids/sky/pollution1.htm

http://www.cleanerandgreener.org/resources/air-pollution.html 

http://www.greenbuildingsupply.com/Sources-of-Indoor-Air-Pollution-VOCs 


http://www.tceq.state.tx.us/airquality/sip/criteria-pollutants/sip-pm