{"id":2071,"date":"2007-07-06T09:57:07","date_gmt":"2007-07-06T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/?p=2071"},"modified":"2013-01-21T13:40:27","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T18:40:27","slug":"city-hall-do-you-know-whats-in-our-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/06\/city-hall-do-you-know-whats-in-our-air\/","title":{"rendered":"City Hall: Do you know what&#8217;s in our air?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.esemag.com\/1102\/kyoto_1.jpg\" \/><br \/>\nCross-posted from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/daily\/?p=574\">Eye Daily. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>What will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/daily\/?p=528\">Norm Kelly<\/a> say now?<\/p>\n<p>A report from Toronto&#8217;s medical officer of health is recommending that Toronto force businesses to disclose the pollutants they pump into our air. As it stands now, the vast majority of Toronto businesses don&#8217;t have to keep track of the chemicals they emit at all, but according to the report, there are a lot of nasty things in our air.<\/p>\n<p>Says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/living\/Health\/article\/233036\">the Toronto Star:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The report backs the call for a new bylaw with two new sets of air quality data. Both suggest the city&#8217;s air contains relatively high concentrations of chemicals that can cause cancer, breathing ailments or reproductive problems.<\/p>\n<p>One source was Environment Canada measurements at a handful of city locations from 2003 to 2005. Most spectacular was a single reading for chromium, a carcinogen, that was 1,150 times a benchmark set by California&#8217;s Environmental Protection Agency &#8212; which establishes most of the continent&#8217;s strictest standards. Three other chemicals had peak readings more than 100 times the benchmark. Average readings for chromium were 225 times the California standard.<\/p>\n<p>Five others were at least 25 times the benchmark.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.toronto.ca\/health\/boh_index.htm\">The Board of Health<\/a> will vote on the recommendation at its meeting this Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eyeweekly.com\/daily\/?p=574\">Click here to post a comment. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cross-posted from Eye Daily. What will Norm Kelly say now? A report from Toronto&#8217;s medical officer of health is recommending that Toronto force businesses to disclose the pollutants they pump into our air. As it stands now, the vast majority of Toronto businesses don&#8217;t have to keep track of the chemicals they emit at all,<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/06\/city-hall-do-you-know-whats-in-our-air\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;City Hall: Do you know what&#8217;s in our air?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4003,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,2],"tags":[5628,1153,6203,23,6204,5246,2643,4067,22085,339,19,341],"class_list":["post-2071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-green-space","category-politics","tag-board-of-health","tag-california","tag-chemicals","tag-environment","tag-environmental-protection-agency","tag-health","tag-medical-officer","tag-norm-kelly","tag-politics","tag-the-toronto-star","tag-toronto","tag-toronto-star"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>City Hall: Do you know what&#039;s in our air? - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2007\/07\/06\/city-hall-do-you-know-whats-in-our-air\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"City Hall: Do you know what&#039;s in our air? - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cross-posted from Eye Daily. 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