In Springfield, the nation’s asthma capital, plans for a power plant spark fury
Last year, Springfield was ranked as the nation’s asthma capital.

Now, many worry that the city could soon become home to the state’s largest commercial biomass power plant, one expected to burn nearly a ton of wood an hour and emit large amounts of fine particulate matter, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, and other harmful pollutants.

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