An IDEM official says that Chicago is polluting Northwest Indiana air.

Writes the Post-Tribune’s Gitte Laasby:

When Lake and Porter counties have ozone problems on hot days, don’t blame the region’s heavy lakeshore industries. Indiana’s top environmental official suggests you look toward Chicago instead.

“The No. 1 contributor (to ozone problems in Lake and Porter counties) is Chicago,” Indiana Department of Environmental Management Commissioner Tom Easterly said in a recent Portage appearance.

Not so fast, an Illinois public heath expert counters. …

It makes sense that the wind blowing from the west would carry away pollution created in Illinois into Northwest Indiana.  But, I still wouldn’t give Indiana’s heavy industries free reign to pump out more pollution just because Chicago is contributing to our air quality problems.

Technorati Tags: air pollution, Chicago, environment, IDEM, Lake County, Porter County

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