The issue of polluted air has an affect on all people in America.
Chicago is home to a total of 32 power plants 6 are nuclear energy power plants and the 26 others are either Coal Burning or Fossil Fuel power plants. For many years America has been a nation that has been running on fossil fuels and coal burning to create energy that fuels our city of Chicago. Yet people have not been paying attention to what we are doing to our planet. Nuclear power plants create nuclear waste that will never go away most of the nuclear waste from the power plants last up to 30 years on our planet, it will not decompose or waste away it is a harmful substance to anything on planet. Coal burning power plants such as the Crawford station in the Little Village area releases harmful pollutants that can cause birth defects, respiratorial issues and many more harmful chemicals that the residents near these power plants must breath in on a daily basis. Many people are living in communities that have unhealthy air quality and yet no action has been taken. All over America there are power plants that contribute to the increase health issues.Power plants in other communities have also shown that within those polluted areas there have been high numbers of birth defects and many cases of asthma at young ages.Air quality has been very unhealthy for a long time and it continues to harm the people and major corporations that own these power plants continue to pollute our skies and the air we breath.When It comes to the amount of air pollution in Chicago one of the main reasons why this state is so polluted it do to all the Power plants in Illinois.