Author: Ananya Roy

Ananya Roy

What does EPA’s new soot standard mean for public health?
Ananya Roy / Feb 23, 2024

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) soot rules just got a lot stronger. On February 7, the agency lowered the national limit of annual fine particle pollution—or soot—to 9 micrograms ...

by Ananya Roy

• February 23, 2024February 27, 2024 • Academic, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring

Stronger national fine particle air pollution standards will provide significant health benefits and reduce disparities
Ananya Roy / Jun 22, 2022

This blog is co-authored by Taylor Bacon, Analyst, US Clean Air and Climate; Maria Harris, Senior Scientist; and Mindi DePaola, Program Manager, Office of the Chief Scientist. A new EDF ...

by Ananya Roy

• June 22, 2022March 23, 2023 • Academic, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Public Health/Environmental Official, USA

Traffic-related air pollution results in new childhood asthma. The actions we take today matter.
Ananya Roy / Mar 15, 2022

Asthma changes the physical, emotional and academic trajectory of a child’s life. More than 5 million children in the United States have asthma, and every year there are over 750,000 ...

by Ananya Roy

• March 15, 2022March 17, 2022 • Homepage, Science

New research shows the sources of fine particle pollution vary from country to country—our response should, too
Ananya Roy / Dec 17, 2021

While the COVID-19 pandemic has dominated headlines, another invisible and insidious health threat continues to rage, causing lost workdays, emergency room visits and hospitalizations. Fine particle air pollution (PM2.5) is ...

by Ananya Roy

• December 17, 2021December 17, 2021 • Homepage, India

People of color hit hardest by air pollution: EPA needs to consider this in benefit-cost assessments of policies
Ananya Roy / Dec 15, 2021

New analysis from EDF and Carnegie Mellon University finds that prevalent methods of assessing impacts of air pollution underestimate pollution’s health impacts on people of color.

by Ananya Roy

• December 15, 2021December 17, 2021 • Community Organizer, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Public Health/Environmental Official, USA

Tackling air pollution and climate justice together
Ananya Roy / Aug 24, 2021

By Elizabeth Moses and Ananya Roy We are seeing the beginnings of the impact of unchecked emissions globally. Extreme rainfall and flooding in India, China and Germany have destroyed infrastructure ...

by Ananya Roy

• August 24, 2021September 3, 2021 • Climate, Homepage