A team of ProPublica reporters spent two years analyzing billions of rows of data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and created a map that shows more than 1,000 toxic hot spots near industrial plants, where the risk of cancer for more than a fifth of the nation’s population is elevated.
The map is the most detailed of its kind, according to ProPublica.
An accompanying series, “Sacrifice Zones,” explains the data and shines a light on the stories of people who live close to the factories.
