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L.A. building schools close to freeways |
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24 Sep 2007 |
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| Posted at 11:40 AM on 24 Sep 2007 More than 60,000 students in Los Angeles attend school within 500 feet of a highway, and seven more traffic-spooning campuses are in the works, despite health experts' warnings that such pollution-proximate students are at increased risk of asthma and other illnesses. All of the schools will be built with air-filtration systems, but such systems do not reliably remove the smallest, most dangerous particulate p ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, education, health, Los Angeles, news, placemaking, urban planning (all these topics) |
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