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Article: Illinois EPA says it's addressing air quality in areas with soot
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- The Doings - Elmhurst (IL)
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- September 9, 2008
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Illinois Environmental Protection Agency was well aware the Chicago region would be included in the U.S. EPA's list of non-attainment areas for soot, and the agency is at work to reduce emissions.
"We have a regional problem with fine particle matter on a daily basis," said Laurel Kroack, chief of the Illinois EPA's Bureau of Air, referring to soot by its more formal name.
The problem is wide-ranging, she said. The No. 1 source in the metropolitan area is car and truck traffic. But other sources aren't only located in the city and suburbs.
Coal-fired power plants are the No. 2 cause of soot emissions, and those particles are emitted by plants in the Chicago area and as far away as Indiana, ...