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February 28, 2024
Most school and transit buses on the nations roadways these days are still powered by diesel engines but in Wisconsin and elsewhere, there is hope about the push to switch to electric fleets. The city of Racine has made headlines in recent years for leveraging federal funds to add more electric buses operated by its transit agency. Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, school systems such as the Palmyra-Eagle district have used federal grants to buy a handful of buses fitted with such tech...
February 14, 2024
Groups concerned about air pollution and public health are asking the city councils of Long Beach and Los Angeles and their respective Harbor Commissions to pass major restrictions on air pollution from ships. The "Ports for People" ordinance would require agencies to take steps to reduce pollution from cargo ships by 50% from 2019 levels by 2030, and to achieve 100% zero-emission shipping at the ports by 2040. Dawnyall Heydari, climate campaign advocacy manager for the nonpr...
January 26, 2024
In some cases, air-quality tests at some facilities found, โIt was no better to be inside than to be outside,โ according to a researcher.
January 24, 2024
Every year, wildfires across the western U.S. and Canada send plumes of smoke into the sky. When that smoke blows into southwestern Idahoโs Treasure Valley, it blankets Boise-area residents inย dirty air.
January 24, 2024
Air pollution from wildfire smoke โ a brew of pollutants, water vapor, and fine debris โ is a growing public health problem.
January 24, 2024
Data collected from six facilities in 2021, including two in the Missoula area, showed that in some buildings indoor and outdoor air quality were almost identical on smoky days.
January 24, 2024
Data collected from six facilities in 2021, including two in the Missoula area, showed that in some buildings indoor and outdoor air quality were almost identical on smoky days.
January 24, 2024
Data collected from six facilities in 2021, including two in the Missoula area, showed that in some buildings indoor and outdoor air quality were almost identical on smoky days.
January 23, 2024
Every year, wildfires across the western U.S. and Canada send plumes of smoke into the sky. When that smoke blows into southwestern Idahoโs Treasure Valley, it blankets Boise-area residents in dirty air.
January 23, 2024
As climate change-driven wildfires increasingly choke large parts of the United States with smoke each summer, new research shows residents in long-term care facilities are being exposed to dangerously poor air, even those who donโt set foot outside during smoke events.