You want to know what you’ve been breathing? This summer, two University of North Texas geography graduate students did something no one had done before. Amanda Caldwell and Susan Waskey added up all the emission reports submitted to state and federal government by the three cement plants and adjacent steel mill in Midlothian. They found that between 1990 and 2006, nearly 1 billion pounds — 986,509,069 — of harmful air pollution was released into the North Texas skies, including 10,000 pounds of mercury. [cough, cough] Check out their whole report.
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