For the second time this month, a report is taking aim at the dirty air in and above Birmingham. Now it's the Southern Environmental Law Center issuing a report blasting the area's coal-fired Alabama Power power plants as the source of the problem.
It ranks Birmingham's air as the dirtiest in the South.
Not the kind of thing that's helpful in soliciting new business. The earlier report was from the EPA.
It's sometimes hard to imagine that the state's largest city has such dirty air when you walk around on a crisp Fall or Winter morning. But remember: the really bad pollution is mostly invisible, the stuff you don't see coming from a smokestack or a vehicle.
[The late D.J. Tommy Charles used to joke--at least I think he was joking--"that's not pollution, that's jobs!"]
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