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Conservatives in the House (especially) have been trying to block efforts to clean air and limit global warming even though [http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-07-who-is-standing-against-polluters-and-for-clean-air their constituents support]. [http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-07-who-is-standing-against-polluters-and-for-clean-air Democrats favor]. | Conservatives in the House (especially) have been trying to block efforts to clean air and limit global warming even though [http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-07-who-is-standing-against-polluters-and-for-clean-air their constituents support]. [http://www.grist.org/article/2011-01-07-who-is-standing-against-polluters-and-for-clean-air Democrats favor]. | ||
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| + | [http://www.webmd.com/asthma/ss/slideshow-worst-smog-cities Slide Show] CA featured prominently. | ||
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| + | [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/22/state-of-the-air-app-ala_n_1616916.html?ref=topbar State Of The Air Smartphone App] Gives Air Quality Reports And Forecasts | ||
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| + | [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/historic-pittsburgh-smoke-control-photos_n_1569252.html Pictures of Pittsburgh in 40's] look like China now. | ||
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| + | [http://www.npr.org/series/142000896/poisoned-places-toxic-air-neglected-communities Poisoned Places] four part NPR report and interactive map. 11/11 | ||
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| + | [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/13/southern-california-air-pollution_n_1273348.html?view=print&comm_ref=false California status and map] 2/12. | ||
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| + | [http://californiawatch.org/data/californias-top-greenhouse-gas-polluters-map California's Top Polluters] (map) | ||
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| + | [http://www.epa.gov/air/where.html EPA searchable maps]. [http://www.epa.gov/region9/air/maps/index.html California maps] Find [http://www.arb.ca.gov/maps/districtmap.jpg your district]and [http://www.epa.gov/region9/air/maps/images/AIR1000059_1Lg.gif your air basin]. [http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.fcsummary&stateid=6 Today's air quality] in [http://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=google_earth.index Google Earth]. | ||
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| + | [http://www.stateoftheair.org/2012/city-rankings/most-polluted-cities.html American Lung Association's State of the Air] | ||
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| + | [http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2011/07/map-cutting-air-pollution-saves-lives Lives saved per year because of new rules](by Eastern state) 34,000. | ||
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== UC Research == | == UC Research == | ||
Revision as of 16:50, 1 April 2013
This page is dedicated to air pollution. Wind power is a separate category, currently on the energy page. See also Global Warming and Environmental Justice, as well as China.
Contents
Overview
Air pollutant trends (graphs)
Websites
EPA Air air pollution effects.
Airhugger features important grass roots monitoring by Global Community Monitor, their citizen science Bucket Brigades have gathered data on the East Bay, including Chevron Richmond refinery fire. Also metal recyclers and Fracking.
Airnow lots of varied info including videos.
California Air Resources Board (Find your district)
American Lung Association's State of the Air
Health Effects from the CDC
Health Effects from the National Institutes of Health (including kids).
Solutions from Scientific American.
Planet Hazard slices and dices EPA data by place, chemical and industry etc (last updated 2006?).
Project Breathe from Pittsburgh has badges.
News, Articles and Reports
Search Grist.org for news on clean air.
Air Pollution Boosts a Child's Chance of Getting Cockroach-Related Asthma 2/13.
App allows people to monitor air (Griswold UCSD).audio.
Cleaner Air May Lengthen Life Spans In The U.S.: Study.
Google Science Fair winner research on air quality on asthsma. alt link.
Explaining the ’100 million to die from climate change’ claim
Even as L.A. pollution drops, cars are giving kids asthma 9/12
New OECD report says air may be #1 killer 3/12
California status and map 2/12
China Air Quality Standards: Two-Thirds Of Cities Failing 3/12 related.
New report out about the ways the Environmental Protection Agency and state regulators have failed to crack down on air polluters (see also related stories on Grist). 11/11
Why Tornadoes Take the Weekends Off in Summer
Justice in the Air: Tracking Toxic Pollution from America's Industries and Companies to Our States, Cities, and Neighborhoods. PERI at UMass. Top 100 air polluters.
Top 10 pollutants and infographic.
How many Lives Clean Air can Save and California Health Costs 11/11
Three US cities that have improved their air. 11/11
Conservatives in the House (especially) have been trying to block efforts to clean air and limit global warming even though their constituents support. Democrats favor.
Images/Interactive
Slide Show CA featured prominently.
State Of The Air Smartphone App Gives Air Quality Reports And Forecasts
Pictures of Pittsburgh in 40's look like China now.
Maps
Poisoned Places four part NPR report and interactive map. 11/11
California status and map 2/12.
California's Top Polluters (map)
EPA searchable maps. California maps Find your districtand your air basin. Today's air quality in Google Earth.
American Lung Association's State of the Air
Lives saved per year because of new rules(by Eastern state) 34,000.
UC Research
Air Pollution Research at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and UC Berkeley.
Patrick Chuang studies pollution in the atmosphere, which may help refine global warming models. He co-teaches College 8 winter quarter course 81B.
Manuel Pastor (now at USC) "Still Toxic After All these years" 2007 Bay Area study. alternative link.
App allows people to monitor air (Griswold UCSD).audio.
History
Donora PA smog in 1948 killed twenty people but led to clean air regulations
In When Smoke Ran Like Water Devra Lee Davis "epidemiologist Devra Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. She documents the shocking toll of a public-health disaster-300,000 deaths a year in the U.S. and Europe from the effects of pollution-and asks why we remain silent. For Davis, the issue is personal: Pollution is what killed many in her family and forced some of the others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with impaired health. She describes that episode and also makes startling revelations about how the deaths from the London smog of 1952 were falsely attributed to influenza; how the oil companies and auto manufacturers fought for decades to keep lead in gasoline, while knowing it caused brain damage; and many other battles."
The Killer Fog of '52 Thousands Died as Poisonous Air Smothered London. Includes audio (Realplayer required)
Video
Asthma and Ozone: Dr. John Balmes: At UCSF I do what are called controlled human exposure studies, where we actually have a chamber, the human exposure chamber, where we expose people to pollutants under controlled conditions. In the real world there's always a mixture of pollutants. Ozone, particulate matter, oxides of nitrogen, so it's hard to pinpoint in the real world how much of an effect is due to one versus the other ...With climate change we're going to have increases with both ozone and allergens. And it turns out that ozone, in advance of exposure to allergens, makes the asthmatic airway more sensitive to the allergen.
Researcher Kamal Meattle shows how an arrangement of three common houseplants, used in specific spots in a home or office building, can result in measurably cleaner indoor air. TEDtalk video.
air samples from planes. UCSC's Patrick Chuang does similar work. So does atmospheric chemist Rachel Pike, who provides a glimpse of the massive scientific effort behind the bold headlines on climate change, with her team -- one of thousands who contributed -- taking a risky flight over the rainforest in pursuit of data on a key molecule. TEDtalk video.
Citizen science collects data for maps by Brian Beveridge of the West Oakland Environmental Indicators Project. Air is more dangerous than Superfund site.
Impact of Air Pollution from Household Cooking Fires. More than half the world's population cook their meals with solid fuels over open fires or on primitive stoves inside their homes. UCSFs Lisa Thompson explains that this indoor smoke contains a range of health-damaging pollutants which causes 1.6 million deaths a year. Amy Smith, an amazing MIT engineer and her students have taken on this challenge in Haiti TEDtalk video.
Audio
Beijing Airpocalypse 2/13.
Ozone. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing strict new standards for ozone, a main ingredient in smog. The new rules could force some rural and coastal counties to start cracking down harder on pollution. 1/10
