According to a recent study, Indiana has a substantially lower health risk from the air toxins, when compared to the states that surround it. This was a revelation made by the Indiana Department of Environmental management.

Data was used from the year 2005 to calculate the potential risk from air toxins for the purpose of National-Scale Air Toxics Assessment. The tests back then had used about 177 diesel and toxins from the particles of the vehicles and the industry, for the estimation of risks.

"Based on the 2005 NATA, air quality in Indiana is headed in the right direction", IDEM Commissioner Thomas Easterly said in a statement issued Friday morning.

According to the officials at IDEM, the numbers shall maintain a descending pattern. Since the data collected in 2005, said IDEM, that the huge air toxin emitting factories have either been shut down, or they have installed emission control equipment, according to the novel regulations of the U. S. EPA.