Article: Downwind from Philadelphia: Camden County, N.J., Rapped for Air Pollution.

By Kaitlin Gurney, The Philadelphia Inquirer Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 5--CHERRY HILL, N.J.--Camden County has the worst air pollution in the smog-stricken Garden State, an environmental advocacy group warned in a report released yesterday.

The report by the New Jersey Public Interest Research Group contends that Camden County is the only county in the state to record high levels of both potentially cancer-causing air toxics and ozone pollution.

The data were compiled by the federal Environmental Protection Agency and analyzed by NJPIRG, an environmental activist group that has a chapter in most states. The EPA figures on ...

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