the 2011 town hall meeting was opened to address concerned of the district about a steel bulkheads industrial factory that petitioned to the aqmd for a contract to extending its facilities to increase pollution emissions . families and teachers were distressed over the facts that the plant was located indirectly adjacent to kennedy elementary schools , and that their children were experiencing high concentration of lead , asthma problems , excessive nose - drinking , and exhaustion .
there is an outbreak of leukemia among women in australia .