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| − | This page is dedicated to air pollution. [[:Category:Wind|Wind power]] is a separate category, currently on the [[:Category:Energy|energy page]]. See also [[:Category:Global_Warming|Global Warming]] and [[:Category:Environmental_Justice|Environmental Justice]], as well as [[China#Articles|China]] as well as [[Chemicals|Chemicals]]. | + | This page is dedicated to air pollution. [[:Category:Wind|Wind power]] is a separate category, currently on the [[:Category:Energy|energy page]]. See also [[:Category:Global_Warming|Global Warming]] and [[:Category:Environmental_Justice|Environmental Justice]], [https://rachelcarson-wiki.lt.ucsc.edu/wiki/Category:Fire Wildfires] as well as [[China#Articles|China]] as well as [[Chemicals|Chemicals]]. |
Revision as of 22:02, 31 October 2019
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, Wildfires as well as China as well as Chemicals.
Contents
Overview
Air pollutant trends (graphs).
5 worst US cities for pollution 11/13.
Top 10 pollutants and infographic.
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 and embassies overseas. 11/19
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
News Sources
Search Grist.org for news on clean air.
Stories
A new chemistry innovation could reduce smog, acid-rain and asthma-inducing pollution 10/19 sulphur
With climate change, Valley fever spreads in California — and this year could be the worst yet 10/18. more.
The smoke’s gone, but hearts and lungs still may be in danger months after wildfires 11/18 see Fire.
Californians are now lab rats for the long-term effects of toxic wildfire smoke As air quality hits hazardous levels in the Bay Area, scientists say we’re descending into unknown territory 11/18 see California.
95% of World's Population Breathes Unsafe Air 4/18.
Teen Innovator Targets Urban Air Pollution: When Angad Daryani was a child in Mumbai, he used to suffer from the air pollution there. "Growing up, I had asthma," he told CNN in a profile Wednesday. "I used to have a lot of breathing problems growing up in India." Now, at the ripe old age of 19, he is working on an invention that could filter pollutants from the air of city skies and help other children breathe easier. 3/18.
How smoke affects the most vulnerable 12/17.
African Americans Disproportionately Suffer Health Effects of Oil and Gas Facilities 11/17 see EJ.
Air Pollution Kills 9 Million, Costs $5 Trillion Per Year 10/17.
2.9 Million Children in the U.S. Are Threatened by Toxic Air Pollution From Oil & Gas Development 9/17 map.
Two billion children worldwide affected by air pollution, UNICEF study says A report released Monday said one in seven children lives in areas of high air pollution.10/16.
'Threat Map' Aims to Highlight the Worst of Oil and Gas Air Pollution: 6/16 see maps below.
China Issues ‘Red Alert’ Over Devastating Air Pollution so 4,000 Bottles of Fresh Air Shipped to China, Company Struggling to Keep Up With Demand. video on effects.
3 Decarbonizing Scientific Breakthroughs example: new “Solidia cement,” invented by Dr. Richard Riman of Rutgers University, can be made from the same ingredients as Portland cement and in the same kilns but at lower temperature ... Unlike Portland cement, which consumes water to cure, this new cement cures by consuming CO2.
Dirty Air: The Silent Killer in Black Communities: The system of discrimination that supports racist policing is the same system that supports environmental racism. 11/15.
26 National Parks Fail EPA’s New Ozone Standard 11/15.
Being Inside Is Making Us Stupid: How Indoor Air Pollution Impacts the Function of Our Brains 10/15.
A look at the weak regulations around oil drilling in L.A. 10/15.
25 Most and Least Polluted Cities in America 5/15.
Nearly Half the U.S. Population Still Breathes Polluted Air, Report Says 5/15.
New science shows earthquakes from fracking injection wells and bad air (infographic of Texas) 5/15.
When China became the world’s workshop, it inherited the world’s air pollution, too (nice overview of air pollution) see China 5/14.
California Cities Have Worst Smog, Particle Pollution, but outside of California, Houston, the Washington-Baltimore-area and Las Vegas had some of the worst problems with ozone pollution, which can create or worsen lung conditions like asthma, the report said. Nearly half of the people living in the United States, about 147.6 million people, reside in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution. 5/14.
Massive Ozone Hole Found In Earth's 'Detergent' Layer Over The Pacific, Scientist Warns 4/14.
Crowdfunded science suggests that coal-hauling trains cause air pollution 11/13. see Citizen Science.
Kimberly Wasserman, a Chicana born and raised near Chicago won the Goldman Prize for shutting down two dirty coal plants. In 1998, then a single mother, she rushed her 3-month-old baby to the hospital when he started gasping for air. See Activism.
Air Pollution Causes Cancer, WHO Agency Says 10/13.
Air pollution may be responsible for more than 2 million deaths around the world each year, according to a new study, linked with fine particulate matter, tiny particles that can get deep into the lungs and cause health problems. Shortens life in China by five years 7/13.
The Super Pollutant Emissions Reduction Act, or SUPER Act would create a new federal task force to track, coordinate, and rationalize the various scattered efforts underway to reduce so-called “super pollutants.” CA sponsor.
Scientist build mobile air lab. See challenges page for contest.
Over the last 15 years, there's been a spike in valley fever cases, especially among people in agriculture, construction, the solar industry and prisons. 5/13
Goldman "Green Nobel" AwardKimberly Wasserman led local residents in a successful campaign to shut down two of the country’s oldest and dirtiest coal plants — and is now transforming Chicago’s old industrial sites into parks and multi-use spaces.
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
WORLD’S FIRST GLOBAL REAL-TIME AIR POLLUTION MAP AND APP LAUNCHED
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.
Chinese smog visible from space. 12/13.
Maps
(see Maps)
Air Now realtime air quality (includes embassies). 11/19
CARB air maps CA Ozone and PM 2.5 11/19.
2.9 Million Children in the U.S. Are Threatened by Toxic Air Pollution From Oil & Gas Development 9/17 map.
'Threat Map' Aims to Highlight the Worst of Oil and Gas Air Pollution: direct link 10/19.
WORLD’S FIRST GLOBAL REAL-TIME AIR POLLUTION MAP AND APP LAUNCHED
Real-Time Map Reveals China’s Deadly Air Pollution, direct link to world 2.5 PM map 9/19 see also China.
Poisoned Places four part NPR report and interactive map. 11/11
California status and map 2/12.
Top Polluters 2013 (map)
EPA Air resources. 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.
NASA model of aerosol/particles in atmosphere.
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
When Smoke Ran Like Water: Tales Of Environmental by Devra Davis (discussion notes) Davis confronts the public triumphs and private failures of her lifelong battle against environmental pollution. By turns impassioned and analytic, 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. She shows how environmental toxins contribute to a broad spectrum of human diseases, including breast cancer, cardiovascular disease, asthma, and emphysema—all major killers—and in addition how these toxins affect the health and development of the heart and lungs, and even alter human reproductive capacity. But the battle against pollution is not just scientific. For Davis, it’s personal: pollution is what killed many in her family and forced the others, survivors of the 1948 smog emergency in Donora, Pennsylvania, to live out their lives with damaged health. She vividly 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; behind-the-scenes accounts of the battle to recognize breast cancer as a major killer; and many other battles. When Smoke Ran Like Water makes a devastating case that our approaches to public health need to change.
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.
Valley Fever in the Central Valley made worse by drought. 6/13.
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. also some data by species.
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
