At a raucous meeting during which tempers frequently flared, dozens of T.M. Peirce Elementary parents vociferously shot down a Philadelphia School District plan to keep children at the school.
The 2019 wildfires have laid bare the drawbacks to an air quality monitoring system designed more for measuring large swaths of land over time than for providing real-time, localized data that is more valuable in disasters like wildfires.
Last week, a nationwide study by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) found that the country's air quality deteriorated in 2017 and 2018 — a dramatic reversal of improvements recorded over the prior seven years.
Houston city officials and university researchers develop technologies to more accurately inform the community when the air quality might be particularly concerning for the most vulnerable.
A Louisiana Environmental Action Network attorney argued that Thermaldyne's modified air permit allows it to release dangerous cancer-causing materials into the environment.
President Rodrigo Duterte has voiced support for renewables but has yet to release an executive mandate that could propel the energy department to change its coal-dependent roadmap.
