[speaker001:] Okay [cough] [child yelling].
[speaker002:] Yes.
[speaker001:] First off,
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] speaking of air pollution I'm coughing.
[speaker002:] [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] Um, I'm not sure what contributes to air pollution exactly. I find it hard to believe that a lot of the hair sprays and things that we use cause the air pollution.
[speaker002:] Yeah, it, it.
[speaker001:] It doesn't seem like, but I guess when you think of it everybody has some sort of aerosol in their home
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] you know, and it's kind of dangerous.
[speaker002:] Yeah, that's true.
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] Uh, I don't know. We live, um, well, I'm close to Salt Lake
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] and there's mountains, uh, you know, all around. But sometimes I think tend to hold a little bit of it in, you know.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] Really, it's, it's fairly clean, um, I think it's a fairly clean city compared to some, but, you know how quite a,
[speaker001:] But you think the mountains and the, are kind of a barrier?
[speaker002:] Yeah
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] I think sometimes it seems to be but,
[speaker001:] That's an interesting thought.
[speaker002:] But, uh, anyway, I don't know. I know there's a lot of plants here, when I drive down
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] you know, along the, just along the freeway, there's a lot of plants that they're burning things and,
[speaker001:] Here in Texas I know a lot of the, pretty much every place here is relatively flat, and so I would think that that would probably contribute to us not having that big of a, like a smog problem or
[speaker002:] Oh, uh-huh.
[speaker001:] something like that.
[speaker002:] Yeah. We, we have a real fog problem. Um.
[speaker001:] Um.
[speaker002:] The last few years just in, through December and January it, it really is foggy and, and seems to just, um, it's kind of like it, it just stays for a month
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] quite foggy. But, uh, gee, I don't, I don't know what else.
[speaker001:] I gue-,
[speaker002:] I know
[speaker001:] I gue-,
[speaker002:] cars [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] yeah, I guess I've never really, uh, thought about the fact, like in California they, they have a lot of smog problems.
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] And it's real hilly there.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] So that is probably something that plays a [child talking] big factor. [throat clearing] I think probably just, uh, a lot of factories, um, you know, they have the smoke stacks, I guess you call them
[speaker002:] Uh-huh.
[speaker001:] and different things like that.
[speaker002:] Yeah, that's, that's what I see burning a lot. I'm not exactly sure what they're burning. I know, uh-huh, there are some oil companies, and I'm sure that that contributes a lot [LAUGHTER]
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] just the burning of the che-,
[speaker001:] Aren't they supposed to be coming out with some sort of, uh, special gas or something that doesn't emit certain chemicals or something?
[speaker002:] Oh, I don't know. I haven't, I haven't heard that.
[speaker001:] Um.
[speaker002:] I know, uh, I don't know how your emissions test is on your cars or anything, but I know I think they, they differ from state to state.
[speaker001:] Oh, okay.
[speaker002:] But, um, you know, that's been a new thing in the last
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] few years, and I guess some cars are a lot worse than others. I think those, uh, what are they, the, I know, a Rabbit's one, diesel
[speaker001:] Uh-huh, the diesel.
[speaker002:] the diesel cars.
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] Yeah, they seem to put out quite a bit [LAUGHTER].
[speaker001:] I know a lot of people with diesels [LAUGHTER]
[speaker002:] Huh.
[speaker001:] truck, you know.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] But, um.
[speaker002:] Well, do you, um, are you working for T I?
[speaker001:] No, I don't.
[speaker002:] Oh, okay.
[speaker001:] I, I work in Waco at a T V station.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] My mother works at T I.
[speaker002:] Oh, uh-huh.
[speaker001:] That's why,
[speaker002:] And that's how you got involved.
[speaker001:] Yeah, yeah.
[speaker002:] Yeah.
[speaker001:] You work at T I?
[speaker002:] No
[speaker001:] Oh, okay.
[speaker002:] we, we have, um, my husband's sister lives in Dallas actually.
[speaker001:] Okay.
[speaker002:] And they kind of got it, us involved that way.
[speaker001:] Oh, okay.
[speaker002:] Yeah
[speaker001:] That's interesting.
[speaker002:] but. Well, I don't, I don't know.
[speaker001:] [LAUGHTER] What else causes air pollution? Um, Noise.
[speaker002:] Yeah, noise.
[speaker001:] Noise causes air pollution [cough].
[speaker002:] I've got, speaking of noise, you can probably hear my little.
[speaker001:] Yeah, that's why I thought of it.
[speaker002:] Yeah, he is quite noisy. Yes, gee, I don't know. I know that, um, don't dumps, [LAUGHTER] you know, where you dump all your
[speaker001:] Oh.
[speaker002:] trash
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] in the, uh.
[speaker001:] Landfills.
[speaker002:] Yeah, I'm sure that does. I know they're always churning that up
[speaker001:] We just.
[speaker002:] and I, I think they burn a lot there, too.
[speaker001:] Yeah. We just had a big, uh, thing here in Waco. They're needing to open a new landfill, or to expand onto the old landfill. And, uh, it's, it's really been a big fight because a lot of the people that live by the landfill don't want it expanded, because they're thinking that they're water is going to be contaminated somehow.
[speaker002:] Oh.
[speaker001:] And so they,
[speaker002:] Well, I don't think I'd, I'd like that. You know, we, um
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] when we've taken things to the dump, just the dump, uh, that is, uh, you know, closest to us, there's
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] some houses around there, and I know that on windy days, you know
[speaker001:] Oh, yeah.
[speaker002:] they're always moving the, the trash over to different spots, and they've got those big bulldozers, and you can see the dust
[speaker001:] Uh-huh.
[speaker002:] flying, and, and I'm sure that their homes are really quite
[speaker001:] One
[speaker002:] dusty and,
[speaker001:] one of the big concerns is they have a, there's a school right across the highway from the landfill.
[speaker002:] Oh, is there.
[speaker001:] Yeah. So the parents were really, really upset.
[speaker002:] Worried about their
[speaker001:] Yeah.
[speaker002:] their kids getting, huh.
[speaker001:] They, they've been fighting over it for the last year, and they just now approved it. So they're going to try an appeal or something.