During an eight-month investigation, USA Today found that potential problems associated with air quality in schools across the country. Some schools in Middle Tennessee were included in its problem list.There is little online about the study and how they got their numbers, but it is interesting.
But state and local school leaders dismissed the study, which used the Environmental Protection Agency "model to track the path of industrial pollution and mapped the locations of almost 128,000 schools to determine the levels of toxic chemicals outside," according to USA Today.
According to the study, one of the most vulnerable schools in the nationwide survey is John Coleman Elementary School in Smyrna.
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Monday, December 8, 2008
What is in your air?
A USA Today news article has some bothered, and some not about the air quality in a local school.
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