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| EPA Investigates Red Dust Found On Cars Lab Results: Nothing But Dust (CBS) CHICAGO Remember that mysterious red dust Newsradio 780 reported on last week -- the stuff that settled on cars overnight? Now state officials think they know what it is, as WBBM Newsradio 780's Steve Miller reports. What was that rusty dust found on cars that were parked outside, from the northwest suburbs to the South Side? Preliminary results are back from the lab, and Maggie Carson, spokeswoman for the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency, says the dust was just that. "It really is just dust, that it was probably carried by strong winds and deposited in the Chicago area through some thundershowers." Carson says the final lab results will come in a few days, but she says it looks like there's nothing toxic in the strange-looking dust that seemed most obvious when it settled on car hoods and windows the middle of last week. The Illinois EPA believes the red dust came from Oklahoma and Texas, about a thousand miles away. |