Tag: air quality
7 Indoor Air Quality Myths Integrators Should Explain to Customers
Thanks in part to the ongoing battle with the COVID-19 coronavirus, air quality has completely proliferated the discourse when it comes to talking about healthier spaces. However, just as there is a ton of information out there, there is also a ton of misconceptions that have developed over time. So, today, we’re looking to debunk…
COVID-19 lockdowns significantly impacting global air quality
Levels of two major air pollutants have been drastically reduced since lockdowns began in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, but a secondary pollutant — ground-level ozone — has increased in China, according to new research. Two new studies in AGU’s journal Geophysical Research Letters find nitrogen dioxide pollution over northern China, Western Europe and the…
Air quality casts pall over Michigan national parks
Summer vacation season is upon us, with camping, hiking and other outdoor activities. For some of us, that means visiting remote locations in the Great Lakes region, such as Isle Royale National Park, Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore and Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore. Still others set their GPS for historic locales such River Raisin National…
Do You Know What You’re Breathing?
The hottest new apocalypse preparation choice for 2019 is not a bunker or a gun or a lifeboat. And it’s not moving to New Zealand. It’s a small gadget that measures the air pollution around you. As climate change reports become increasingly dire, and as wildfires tear across the American West, and as trust in…
Southern California oil refineries ordered to monitor, publicize neighborhood air quality
Oil refineries must install oil refinery air quality monitors at their fence lines and pay for pollution monitoring systems in surrounding communities by 2020 under rules adopted by Southern California regulators. The measures approved Friday by the South Coast Air Quality Management District board will provide the public with real-time information on refinery emissions, but…
How has air quality been affected by the US fracking boom?
How has air quality been affected by the US fracking boom? Urban air pollution in the U.S. has been decreasing near continuously since the 1970s. Federal regulations, notably the Clean Air Act passed by President Nixon, to reduce toxic air pollutants such as benzene, a hydrocarbon, and ozone, a strong oxidant, effectively lowered their abundance…
Sensitive to air quality? Watch what you do today
The Washington state Department of Ecology issued an sensitive to air quality alert Wednesday for Whatcom, Skagit and Snohomish counties as smoke from British Columbia wildfires moved south this week, creating a haze over what should be blue skies in the region. Washington’s Air Monitoring Network labeled parts of Whatcom County, such as Lynden and…
