BREATHIN’ EASIER IN THE BRONX
Sep 15, 2021
4 minutes
Steve Brooks files this report
IN DENSELY populated neighbourhoods around the largest food distribution centre on the US East Coast, more than one in five school-age children suffer from asthma.
The distribution centre is in the South Bronx region of New York City and diesel trucks running in and out, day and night, have for many years been basted as significant contributors to the area’s notoriously poor air quality.
Well aware of the district’s air pollution problems, particularly since a study at the turn of the century highlighted the area’s elevated incidence of asthma in children, Manhattan Beer Distributors (MBD) has followed earlier efforts to reduce diesel emissions in
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