‘This Is Not Normal.’ New Air Monitoring Reveals Hazards in This Maine City.

InsideClimate News

The latest air quality results from around South Portland’s giant petroleum tank farms and port reveal compounds that even the state’s chemist doesn’t understand. Among other things, the new data show spikes in benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, as well as naphthalene, a pollutant that is toxic at far lower levels, making it trickier to test for and analyze, and more problematic.

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