How-to Guide for Mapping Hyperlocal Air Pollution

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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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Public Health Air Quality Act Would Protect Public Health with Better Air Pollution Data for All
Jul 29, 2020

(Washington, D.C. – July 29, 2020) Today a bicameral group of Members of Congress introduced the Public Health Air Quality Act of 2020, a bill that would strengthen air pollution ...

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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

Opinion: Why Texas is stuck in a vicious cycle of climate change, hurricanes and recovery
Jun 04, 2020

It rained for four days when Hurricane Harvey made landfall three years ago. As the rain kept falling, nearly 340 tons of extra pollution were being spewed into the air ...

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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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The truth about coronavirus, air pollution and our health
Apr 07, 2020

The impact of the dangerous combination of air pollution and the Coronavirus pandemic will not only hurt individuals, but could be an additional burden on our already overloaded healthcare system.

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• April 7, 2020November 9, 2020 • Academic, Community Organizer, Concerned Citizen, Government Official/Policymaker, Public Health/Environmental Official, USA

EPA Is Jamming Through Rollbacks That Could Increase Coronavirus Deaths
Mar 31, 2020

While health experts around the country are focused on containing the spread of the coronavirus, the Environmental Protection Agency is making changes that could both worsen the impact of the ...

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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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