Data to Action

Precision data fosters meaningful change for clean air While ambient air pollution monitoring can give us a sense of a region’s overall air quality, new sensor technologies and data analyses ...

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Road congestion levels in outer London higher than before lockdown
Sep 15, 2020

Road traffic congestion in outer London is now far higher than it was last year as people have gone back into their cars after lockdown, according to new data. Congestion climbed ...

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Air pollution fell by up to 50 per cent at commuter hotspots in London during lockdown, study finds
Jul 02, 2020

Air pollution fell by up to 50 per cent at commuter hotspots in London during lockdown, new data analysis has revealed. The pollutant nitrogen oxide (NO2) decreased by 30 per cent on ...

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Digging deeper into London air pollution reduction with Waze
Jun 23, 2020

EDF partnered with Waze for Cities to learn what less congested roadways during the Coronavirus lockdown meant for NO2 levels.

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• June 23, 2020November 9, 2020 • Monitoring, Partners, Science, UK

Hurricanes Coming: Protecting Black and Brown Neighborhoods from a “Triple Whammy”
Jun 17, 2020

Whether it’s a virus or a hurricane, an explosion or chemical disaster, the more we know about the threats communities face, the more we will be able to understand how ...

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• June 17, 2020November 9, 2020 • Academic, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Government Official/Policymaker, Monitoring, Public Health/Environmental Official, USA

How Working From Home Could Save 11 Billion Road Miles, Cut Emissions
Jun 16, 2020

Maintaining remote working after the coronavirus lockdown in the U.K. could cut two airports’ worth of emissions and eliminate 11.3 billion miles of commutes, a British clean air campaign has ...

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West Oakland Environmental Justice Leaders on What’s Changed, What Hasn’t in the Neighborhood
Apr 28, 2020

In the early 1990s, West Oakland resident Ms. Margaret Gordon, as she likes to be called, worked at the neighborhood elementary school. When she was in the nurse’s office, something ...

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After years of progress, the number of Americans breathing polluted air is rising, report says
Apr 24, 2020

More Americans are breathing air that will make them sick, according to the American Lung Association’s annual State of the Air report. The country had been making progress in cleaning up air ...

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NYC municipal vehicles to test local air quality for pollution in South Bronx with mobile sensors
Jan 21, 2020

The city will start using municipal vehicles to test local air quality in the South Bronx as part of a pilot program that launched Tuesday. Five parks and sanitation vehicles ...

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Worried about the air quality, Pleasantville residents established one of a kind in Texas community-run monitoring network
Jan 07, 2020

The warehouse fire of 1995. That’s the first thing many in Pleasantville point to when asked about air quality in the historic neighborhood east of downtown Houston. It was June ...

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