"Each year the River Rouge coal plant in Detroit releases enough pollution to cause approximately 44 deaths, 72 heart attacks, and 700 asthma attacks, according to a 2010 study by the Clean Air Task Force" ( page 5 March 2013  "GREEN AMERICA").   Imagine how many potential deaths and illnesses might have resulted from the pollution coming out of the ASARCO facility, including the off-gassing from the slag on site and the ten years of illegal radioactive and other noxious/hazardous waste burning from Asarco El Paso ( NY Times 10/06 and report(s) from local citizen who ran CA emission firm tests on his attic dust -- see the scribe link-- and the Idaho national Laboratory).