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New interactive data story highlights air pollution and health impacts in the South Bronx
Mindi DePaola / Dec 20, 2023

What’s new: EDF partner, South Bronx Unite, has just launched an interactive data visualization that’s mapping what residents of the South Bronx have long experienced—that air pollution from industrial facilities ...

by Mindi DePaola

• December 20, 2023January 5, 2024 • Academic, Climate, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, New York City, Partners, Public Health/Environmental Official, Science, USA

New EDF study shows unequal burden from truck-related pollution near warehouses
Aileen Nowlan / May 12, 2023

New research from EDF–Making the Invisible Visible: Shining a Light on Warehouse Truck Air Pollution—shows some 15 million people live within a half-mile of a warehouse in 10 states across ...

by Aileen Nowlan

• May 12, 2023May 12, 2023 • Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Public Health/Environmental Official

Environmental justice groups bring Air Tracker to cities in Alabama and California
Alex Franco / Dec 12, 2022

EDF’s Air Tracker pollution monitoring tool is now live in two new cities—Birmingham, AL, and Vallejo, CA—as local groups ramp up efforts to understand how industrial activity impacts community air ...

by Alex Franco

• December 12, 2022December 22, 2022 • Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Environmental Justice, Homepage, Partners, Science, USA

$53m in New Funding for Community-level Air Quality Monitoring Projects to Support Local Efforts to Measure Air Pollution
Nov 07, 2022

Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced $53 million in funding for air quality monitoring for communities throughout the U.S., the largest such investment in EPA history. The new ...

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Historic investments in air quality monitoring can give communities a voice in clean air solutions
Aileen Nowlan / Sep 08, 2022

The United Nations General Assembly recently declared that access to clean air and a healthy environment is a universal human right, but far too many people live in communities overburdened ...

by Aileen Nowlan

• September 8, 2022September 8, 2022 • Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Environmental Justice, Government Official/Policymaker, Homepage, Monitoring, Science, USA

Introducing Air Tracker: A backward take on air quality to pinpoint sources
Tammy Thompson / Jun 13, 2022

EDF’s new Air Tracker tool allows us to better understand how local air pollution behaves, illuminating the path it takes from a likely source area. Because this tool allows us ...

by Tammy Thompson

• June 13, 2022August 10, 2022 • Academic, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Homepage, Science

EDF mapping reveals where traffic pollution harms children’s lungs

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Markey Bill Provides Tools to Better Understand Local Sources of Air Pollution and Protect Health
Jan 19, 2022

A new bill introduced by Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts would require the US EPA to better enable the development of hyperlocal air pollution insights at the community level.

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Here’s how community groups can receive funding for air monitoring
Aileen Nowlan / Jan 14, 2022

Hyperlocal air monitoring is a powerful new tool for communities that want to take charge of their air and the health consequences of pollution. The United States Environmental Protection Agency ...

by Aileen Nowlan

• January 14, 2022January 24, 2022 • Community Organizer, Environmental Justice, Monitoring, USA

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