{"id":143,"date":"2011-11-08T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/11\/08\/npr-and-the-center-for-public-integrity-investigate-poisoned-places-of-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2011-11-08T19:10:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-08T19:10:00","slug":"npr-and-the-center-for-public-integrity-investigate-poisoned-places-of-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/11\/08\/npr-and-the-center-for-public-integrity-investigate-poisoned-places-of-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"NPR and the Center for Public Integrity Investigate Poisoned Places of the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<table align=\"center\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/news\/graphics\/2011\/10\/toxic-air\/#4.00\/39.00\/-84.00\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-99heeKYLBBY\/TrlzGoFZiwI\/AAAAAAAAASs\/1SbODufQMDk\/s400\/npr_poisonedplaces.jpg\" width=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/news\/graphics\/2011\/10\/toxic-air\/#4.00\/39.00\/-84.00\">interactive map from Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities<\/a> displays <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epa.gov\/tri\/\">Toxic Inventory Release Information<\/a>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/\">NPR <\/a>and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iwatchnews.org\/\">Center for Public Integrity<\/a> have teamed up for a special investigation series entitled <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/series\/142000896\/poisoned-places-toxic-air-neglected-communities\"><i>Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities<\/i><\/a>. This series takes a hard look at the environmental protection, or like there of, in American communities. The series&#8217; website includes an interactive map (see screenshot above) that displays the distribution of polluters all over the country. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/11\/07\/142024951\/poisoned-places-about-the-data\">The map displays Toxic Release Inventory information<\/a>, like the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/outsidetheneatline.blogspot.com\/2011\/10\/are-toxic-chemicals-being-released-near.html\">EPA&#8217;s myRight-to-Know application<\/a>, but is much more user friendly than the EPA product.<\/p>\n<p>More on this NPR series:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/11\/07\/142035420\/secret-watch-list-reveals-failure-to-curb-toxic-air\">Part 1: <i>Secret &#8216;Watch List&#8217; Reveals Failure to Curb Toxic Air<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2011\/11\/07\/141990498\/powdery-pollution-coats-oklahoma-town\">Part 2: <i>Oklahoma Town Battles Powdery Carbon Pollution<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both;text-align: center\">  <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The interactive map from Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities displays Toxic Inventory Release Information. NPR and the Center for Public Integrity have teamed up for a special investigation series entitled Poisoned Places: Toxic Air, Neglected Communities. This series takes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/2011\/11\/08\/npr-and-the-center-for-public-integrity-investigate-poisoned-places-of-the-u-s\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NL4O-2j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/outsidetheneatline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}