intel: what are we breathing?

We at SWOP have compiled the following information to better inform the neighborhoods most at risk from Intel's pollution. The first link uses EDF's Scorecard to see how Intel's Rio Rancho Fabrication Plant stacks up against other facilities in New Mexico. The second link is a list of chemicals Intel is applying for permission to emit (from an Intel document

Above: Joy takes an air sample near Intel. Read the latest about Intel's air pollution.

dated February 1999)--Again, we have linked these chemicals with Scorecard's on-line database so that residents can see for themselves what may be coming their way (if it's not already there). Links 3 and 4 come to us courtesy of Stone Lions Environmental Corporation. Check out our Bucket Brigade, our home-style monitoring system.

Visit our fact sheet on Intel and people's struggle against corporate welfare and environmental racism.

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1. Intel's Pollution levels vs. other New Mexico Industry (www.scorecard.org)
2. Intel: What are we breathing??? (List of chemicals Intel releases into the air and each chemical's health effects)
3. Volatile Organic Chemical Concentrations Near Intel Plant
4. Air Dispersion of Emissions from an Industrial Facility--Animation
5. How to model air pollution-a primer (This page comes to us courtesy of Xavier Morales of Arizona State University. This page helps visitors model air pollution from a polluting facility. Just figure out how far (in meters) you are from a plant and go from there.)
   
6. A Primer Proposal for Community Air Monitoring

The Silicon Valley Toxics Coalition has more information on pollution and environmental justice.

Go to our page on Environmental Justice to find out if there are toxic chemicals coming your way!

Visit Scorecard's POLLUTION LOCATOR to see if pollutants are coming your way! The pollution locator finds, for example, Toxic Chemical Releases from Manufacturing Facilities, state-by-state information on Hazardous Air Pollutants and Potential Sources of Land Contamination.

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