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The EPA Let Companies Estimate Their Own Pollution Levels. The Real Emissions Are Far Worse.

Some big polluters were allowed to estimate their emissions using methods the government knew were often unreliable. The EPA finally required air monitors—but the Trump administration is side-stepping that.

By Lisa Song, photography by Annie Flanagan for ProPublica

U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works, an industrial plant that emits benzene, particulate matter and other pollutants, in Clairton, Pennsylvania, on an early morning in October when atmospheric conditions trapped air pollution close to the ground.

Rich Piar farms soybeans in Knox County, Ohio. The solar project he hopes will be built on his land. Credit: Sarahbeth Maney/ProPublica

Fossil Fuel Interests Are Working To Kill Solar in One Ohio County. The Hometown Newspaper Is Helping

By Miranda Green, Floodlight; Jennifer Smith Richards, ProPublica; Priyanjana Bengani, Tow Center for Digital Journalism

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