A glass recycling facility in Northeast Portland has committed to installing air pollution control technology after reaching an agreement with state regulators following multiple air quality violations. Owens-Brockway, located near the Cully and Sumner neighborhoods, said it will install a catalytic ceramic filter, to control and reduce particulate matter, nitrogen oxide and sulfur dioxide emissions. … Read more
DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and air quality. DNR’s permitting staff review each permit application to ensure facilities comply with state and federal air quality requirements. We encourage public comments on draft permits, providing help on how to make … Read more
Bioaerosols, or airborne biological particles containing viruses, fungal spores, bacteria, and pollen, play a key role in public health. Antibiotic resistance (AR), caused by antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), could potentially cause global public health crises owing to horizontal gene transfer between same or similar bacterial bioaerosols. AR in microbes in soil and water environments have … Read more
A seemingly ground-breaking street-level, real-time air quality sensor network has launched in Camden, presented by air quality specialist AirScape as a bid “to fundamentally transform how government, businesses and the public monitor and manage air pollution in urban spaces”. The technology is said to provide a significant uptick in the spatial resolution of air quality … Read more
An air quality health advisory is in effect today for Long Island and the NYC metro region. The advisory is in effect from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. for the pollutant ground-level ozone, the State Department of Environmental Conservation said in a press release yesterday afternoon. Summer heat can lead to the formation of ground-level … Read more
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Only a fraction of the material that could be turned into new plastic is currently recycled. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden have now demonstrated how the carbon atoms in mixed waste can replace all fossil raw materials in the production of new plastic. The recycling method is inspired by the natural carbon … Read more
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have shown that recent record-breaking increases in the atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gas methane can be explained by year-on-year changes in the climate. They show that climate change is a stronger driver of increasing atmospheric methane than expected, causing the Earth to heat up more and faster … Read more
A new study has found that 6 in 10 classrooms have worse air quality than busy roads. School is somewhere that every parent should be able to send their children, and feel like they are safe and taken care of. They feel content that they are in a space that is safe, both for their … Read more
Crowds of pedestrians and cars, on a busy street adjacent to the Camden Market entrance and the … [+] yellow, brick-faced Camden Lock Market Hall building, with a covered rail passage, reading “Camden Lock” in the background, located at Camden Lock Market in London, United Kingdom, October 28, 2017. (Photo by Smith Collection/Gado/Getty Images) Getty … Read more