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Article: Contra Costa paying price for cleaner Bay Area air.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- August 8, 2002
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WALNUT CREEK, Calif. _ A Bay Area clean air program that allows companies to buy and sell the right to pollute has fostered a shift in industrial air pollution to Contra Costa County, a Contra Costa Times investigation has found.
While the plan has reduced emissions from refineries, power plants and factories across the Bay Area's nine counties, 87 percent of pollution credits earned as part of the plan have been used in a single county, Contra Costa.
The findings reinforce complaints by environmentalists that increasingly popular pollution trading programs lead to higher concentrations of industrial pollution or "toxic hot-spots."
They also ...