By 2000, the state agency made a total of 480 requests and received 70 replies. The information is not open to the public, keeping citizens in the dark about the toxins around their homes and schools. We don't have enough monitoring stations to keep track of emissions. The airport is really dirty. A longtime environmental activist, she has worked on issues such as the downtown Minneapolis incinerator, Prairie Island Nuclear Power Plant, and the battle to stop the Highway 55 re-route through Minnehaha Partk.
Nearby houses have terrible smells.
There's green slime on the lawn furniture in the summer. The airport noise pollution is one thing, but no one's talking about the jet fuel dumping over the city. From the Sierra Club report to concerned state legislators, it is asserted that there are available technologies to solve toxic emissions. What is lacking is funding for monitoring and the political will for enforcement. Polluters buy their way out of responsibility, factoring fines in as part of their budget for business.