- Shelby County health officials dispute a community air monitoring project report showing South Memphis residents were exposed to unhealthy levels of fine-particle pollution, citing concerns about the accuracy of the data.
Questions about air quality in South Memphis have intensified into a broader dispute over how much trust residents should place in recently released neighborhood pollution data.
Shelby County health officials argue the report presents an overly alarming picture, while the researchers behind it say the deeper issue is the long-standing lack of close, neighborhood-level monitoring in communities near industrial sites.
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