Dust Egress is pretty tame in terms of environmental impact. Guess they need to mske these pads more remote.
"But without a chemical analysis of the dust and debris, he added, it was difficult to say whether or not they were harmful to human health."
From the article...
In reality the damage was limited to the exclusion zone around the rocket. A destroyed vehicle was intentionally left there as a camera tripod.
The only thing that "left" the exclusion zone was sound and a dust cloud, so I'll give them that, but the article is trying to mislead the reader (and succeeding, based on comments in this post).
Reporting potential news is not much different to insinuation, and I wish it would stop in newspapers of record.
Humans are not the only living things on the planet, and it does matter when we fork it up for the other living things (even if you are entirely selfish, you'd be a fool to ignore the fact that we are biological beings dependent on the rest of the ecosystem for our own lives).