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Check out the air pollution where you live with Google Earth

ecostreet.com — US residents can now check out what they ’re being poisoned with by checking out this new tool provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Google Earth. Check for levels of carbon monoxide, lead, nitrogen oxides, VOCs, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide; and identify big emitters. A handy tool for deciding where to live if you're moving.

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  • dragosheatza, on 11/27/2007, -7/+7Very interesting
  • samfellow, on 11/27/2007, -8/+5nice
  • richlizard24, on 11/27/2007, -9/+2Google is a great company. You never hear anyone say that Google is an evil company. Can't wait for the next big thing from Google.
    • COlson87, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7I think Google is great too but... Privacy? Censorship?
      • richlizard24, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1That is the country invoking censorship.
    • mathmanjeffy, on 11/27/2007, -5/+14Google is an evil company.

      There, I single-handedly destroyed your premise. Have a nice day!
    • easypie, on 11/27/2007, -7/+0Can I say something about Microsoft over here?
  • Kayisadinosaur, on 11/27/2007, -7/+4Down at 72 diggs?
    • KesshoRyu, on 11/27/2007, -3/+7Diggs are not the same as page views.
  • tarquell, on 11/27/2007, -1/+1looks light ecostreet could do with some MORE help from google....
  • Zetsubou, on 11/27/2007, -2/+2Internal Server Error
  • rumor, on 11/27/2007, -2/+6http://www.duggmirror.com
  • rhinst, on 11/27/2007, -1/+4Now they just need to add crime rate and population density maps so I can see what's happening around the mayor's mansion - and quick, before Bowser attacks! It's a hard job managing a megalopolis...
  • newseowebmaster, on 11/27/2007, -1/+1Server error
  • Weejay, on 11/27/2007, -6/+12As usual, America only. Seriously, ***** that.
    • skimmas, on 11/27/2007, -8/+3"Check out the air pollution where you live with Google Earth" - It's US Only. Buried because of the inaccurate title
    • Ionis, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3Yup, the internet isn't made up 100% of Americans.
  • dheaddy, on 11/27/2007, -4/+12Gutted this is US only
    • m3t00, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Yeah, site down, misleading title, "treehuggermum" sounded like a UK fag tag. I'm so disappointed. Digg is stale.
  • aadsfasdf, on 11/27/2007, -1/+5http://www.epa.gov/air/emissions/where.htm
  • bakagaigin, on 11/27/2007, -0/+12direct link:
    http://www.epa.gov/air/emissions/where.htm
  • hammerattack, on 11/27/2007, -2/+3Holy crap... the EPA did something actually useful.
    • hammerattack, on 11/27/2007, -2/+1son of a bitch... I take that back. The EPA has just published a map of EVERY soft infrastructure target in the area (Atlanta Metro). I'm seeing the exact location and getting sat-intel for Electric, Natural Gas, Chemical and petroleum refineries. Fortunately, I'm still upwind of them, so when jihad comes at least I can watch the fires in relative safety. My god the government is stupid.
  • pileofstraw, on 11/27/2007, -4/+3nice, canada doesnt produce anything... im proud of this.
    • sweetholymosiah, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3we're just 30 million or so... and among the worst polluters in the world. We need to get out heads out of our asses about this one.
    • Chahrlie5, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1Considering that most Canadians live close to our border and the other 90% of your land is basically inhabited this isn't surprising.
  • edebolt, on 11/27/2007, -0/+6you pussies. Try living in Asia where there is real pollution.
    • edebolt, on 11/27/2007, -1/+2I will reply to my own comment..... oh that is desperate. Anyway the EPA in the US has about 18,000 employees. In China their EPA equivalent has about 250 people. Many of them take bribes. I moved from Colorado to Thailand and visit China and Vietnam regularly. You have no idea how good you have it living in the states. Count your blessings !!!!!!
    • omgwthlol, on 11/27/2007, -0/+1ye asia is crazy like that wmijoldkwan oibnfw
    • Chahrlie5, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2I lived in Jakarta for a while, I can still taste the pollution.
  • Goobernutz, on 11/27/2007, -10/+1buried for being yankocentric
  • omgwthlol, on 11/27/2007, -1/+1dang nabbit US only, oh well.
  • foofiejnooner, on 11/27/2007, -0/+4why would the us epa publish this for canada? anyways the headline is misleading it doesnt show anything about air pollution, just locations of factories. i'd like to see an actual representation of air pollution
  • taketheleap, on 11/27/2007, -8/+1buried for being only American...

    Honestly.
    • jubilee123, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5well, it is a US government site...
    • Chahrlie5, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3It wouldn't be as P.C. to see that we're not the worst polluters.
  • mattmy, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2http://www.esa.int/esaEO/SEM340NKPZD_index_0.html
    geez
    world air pollution ...
  • therealshit, on 11/27/2007, -1/+0great feature. I hope the US becomes aware of what they`re doing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  • bdbElysian, on 11/28/2007, -0/+1Wow air pollution is so pathetic is so many places that monitoring it is a feature on Google Earth. Makes me wonder where people get the balls to argue about global warming when their gasping for air.
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