November 23, 2023

University of Waterloo: Revolutionizing the way air quality data is shared

University of Waterloo: Revolutionizing the way air quality data is shared. “Shahan Salim, a PhD candidate in the School of Public Health Sciences and a member of the Waterloo Climate Institute’s COP 28 delegation, has designed, in partnership with UNICEF in Mongolia, a platform to use data from low-cost air quality sensors to monitor and predict adverse outcomes related to air pollution exposure in underserved communities.”

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June 11, 2023

Tom’s Hardware: How To Build an Air Quality Alert Light with Raspberry Pi Pico

Tom’s Hardware: How To Build an Air Quality Alert Light with Raspberry Pi Pico. “In this how to we’ll build a project that uses air quality data from the OpenWeather API to give us an indication of air quality before we leave home. The data is visualized using a Raspberry Pi Pico W, a $6 microcontroller that can go online, get the data and then display the data using a strip of NeoPixel RGB LEDs.”

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June 9, 2023

CNBC: Google tells employees in New York and along the East Coast to work from home as wildfire smoke fills the air

CNBC: Google tells employees in New York and along the East Coast to work from home as wildfire smoke fills the air. “According to NBC, the company issued advisory notices to workers in the Detroit area; Washington, D.C.; Reston, Virginia; Pittsburgh; and Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina. In Canada, which is on track to experience its worst-ever wildfire season, Google notified employees in the Ontario cities of Toronto and Waterloo.”

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June 8, 2023

York University: Scientists discover air quality monitoring stations are collecting urgently needed biodiversity data

York University: Scientists discover air quality monitoring stations are collecting urgently needed biodiversity data. “An international team of researchers has discovered that thousands of ambient air quality monitoring stations around the world are unwittingly recording more than just atmospheric pollutants and dust: they are also likely collecting biodiversity data in the form of environmental DNA (eDNA). Until now it was thought that the infrastructure for monitoring biodiversity and national and global scales does not exist.”

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June 4, 2023

EPA: Environmental Compliance History Database Continues Upgrades Through Introduction of Clean Air Tracking Tool

EPA: Environmental Compliance History Database Continues Upgrades Through Introduction of Clean Air Tracking Tool. “Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released the ECHO Clean Air Tracking Tool (ECATT), which serves as an interface and repository for Clean Air Act data that can be used to evaluate emissions at stationary sources of air pollution and analyze general air quality for the United States. ECATT is the first EPA tool to integrate data from multiple emissions inventories…”

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March 22, 2023

Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment: State health department increases transparency with new, interactive air quality records map

Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment: State health department increases transparency with new, interactive air quality records map. “The state health department’s Air Pollution Control Division has launched a new, interactive online map to search for air quality records. The map provides access to thousands of digital air quality records for stationary sources of air pollution.”

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December 17, 2022

Air Quality News: New database looks to reduce healthcare’s ‘5% of global emissions’

Air Quality News: New database looks to reduce healthcare’s ‘5% of global emissions’. “Dalhousie University and Brighton and Sussex Medical School have developed a major new resource which will make it easier for medical trusts to make carbon-friendly decisions. The HealthcareLCA database is billed as an ‘up-to-date evidence repository, bringing together new and existing assessments into one publicly accessible location’.”

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September 16, 2022

KSAT: Website aims to make pollution permit information more accessible in Houston

KSAT: Website aims to make pollution permit information more accessible in Houston. “The new website, called AirMail and launched Tuesday, automatically assembles data from across [Texas Commission on Environmental Quality]’s labyrinthine website so that ordinary people and community groups can easily see where polluting projects are planned, file official comments and request public hearings.”

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August 7, 2022

Editorial: Open the NYC 9/11 files: The city must release its archives on air quality during the rescue and recovery efforts (New York Daily News)

New York Daily News: Editorial: Open the NYC 9/11 files: The city must release its archives on air quality during the rescue and recovery efforts. “Lawyers for the City of New York are sitting on a hidden library of documents about the environmental and health hazards from Ground Zero dating back to 2001 that must be published. Survivors and responders want to know what the city knew, and Reps. Jerry Nadler and Carolyn Maloney have been pressing for years for City Hall to release the archive.”

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