Wisconsin residents hold crowdfunding campaign to buy air monitors for dangerous coal dust


Wisconsin residents hold crowdfunding campaign to buy air monitors for dangerous coal dust


Neighbors take matters into their own hands in response to coal dust in their community.

A Wisconsin environmental group held a crowdfunding campaign this summer to purchase monitors that can help measure the level of particulates in the air near a large coal-fired power generating site, located on the shores of Lake Michigan.

The Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin raised nearly $2,000 to buy air monitoring equipment to be placed in a neighborhood near the Oak Creek generating site in the city of Oak Creek, Wisconsin. Earlier this year, a cloud of coal dust covered the community, located north of the generating site, creating alarm among residents...

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