The City of Cleveland wants new community air advisers to help expand air monitoring in historically redlined neighborhoods. Christina Yoka, chief of air pollution outreach for the Cleveland Department of Public Health, said children in the city s predominantly Black communities a "C"-shaped area known as the Cleveland Crescent have higher rates of asthma and other respiratory conditions. She emphasized the project s goal is to improve the accuracy of air pollution monitoring at the local level. .
As the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Dubai wraps up, Democratic lawmakers and clean-air advocates are calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to release strict rules on emissions from heavy-duty trucks. The agency is expected to act in the next few months. U.S. .