Air Quality Articles
Hospitals as Engineered Air Environments: Keeping Contamination Moving in the Right Direction
Hospitals use pressure control, filtration, ventilation, and specialized exhaust to direct airborne contamination away from vulnerable patients and workers while also managing pollutants from surgery, sterilization, cleaning, and emergency power systems.
Data Centers and Air Quality: The Pollution Behind the Cloud
Data centers can affect local air quality through backup diesel generators, cooling systems, refrigerant leaks, and construction activity, making their physical infrastructure an increasingly important part of environmental planning.
Inside Livestock Barns: Ammonia, Dust, Methane, and the Air Around Animal Agriculture
Enclosed livestock barns can generate ammonia, methane, hydrogen sulfide, dust, endotoxins, and animal-derived particles, with some emissions affecting workers indoors and contributing to regional air pollution after leaving the facility.
Coffee in the Air: When Roasting Becomes an Industrial Air-Quality Issue
Coffee roasting plants can affect air quality through smoke, VOCs, carbon monoxide, chaff, dust, and naturally occurring compounds such as diacetyl, making ventilation and source control important throughout roasting, grinding, and packaging.
Protecting the Past From the Air: How Museums and Archives Control Their Atmosphere
Museums and archives carefully control particles, reactive gases, VOCs, temperature, and humidity to protect artifacts from slow chemical damage while still maintaining a healthy environment for visitors and staff.
After the Fire: The Hidden Air-Quality Challenge Inside Fire Stations
Fire stations can become secondary exposure environments when diesel exhaust, soot, contaminated gear, chemical vapors, and tracked-in particles move from apparatus bays and equipment areas into occupied living spaces.
Air Beneath the City: What Makes Subway Pollution Different?
Subway air can contain high concentrations of metal-rich particulate matter from wheels, rails, brakes, electrical equipment, and resuspended tunnel dust, making ventilation, cleaning, and regenerative braking important tools for reducing exposure.
Running Through the City: How Air Quality Can Shape a Marathon
Marathon runners inhale far more air than sedentary spectators, making race-day pollution from NO₂, PM2.5, ozone, traffic, and wildfire smoke an important factor in both performance and event planning.
Ink in the Air: Understanding Air Quality Inside Commercial Printing Plants
Commercial printing plants can affect air quality through solvent vapors, VOCs, paper dust, cleaning chemicals, and curing emissions, while newer inks, ventilation, and pollution-control systems help reduce those exposures.
Air Quality Headlines
Forecasted Growth Of The Air Quality Monitoring System Market At A 10.1% CAGR Through 2030
openPR.com | 6 October 2026 | The global air quality monitoring systems market is projected to grow from $7.66 billion in 2026 to $11.25 billion by 2030, driven by stricter emissions requirements, smart-city investments, IoT sensors, real-time monitoring, and...
Keeping The Air Clean In Heavy Fab Shops
Canadian Metalworking | 6 October 2026 | Heavy fabrication shops face unique welding-fume challenges as large workspaces, movable operations, cranes, and oversized components make effective air quality management more complex than relying on traditional fixed...
Washington Smoke Blog
Washington Smoke Blog | 5 October 2026 | Washington’s 2026 wildfire season brought unhealthy air quality to most of the state, with several eastern counties experiencing some of their highest numbers of smoke-affected days in the past 20 years.
Environmental Sensors Enable Advanced Air Quality Monitoring
Electropages | 5 October 2026 | Mouser Electronics and Sensirion are expanding access to compact sensing technologies designed to monitor indoor air quality and HVAC systems, including sensors for CO2, formaldehyde, particulate matter, VOCs, and refrigerant leaks.
Air Quality Permit – Minerals Research, Inc. Copper Slag Processing Facility
ADEQ | 4 October 2026 | Arizona environmental regulators have opened a public comment period on an air quality permit for a Yavapai County copper slag processing facility that emits particulate matter, VOCs, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, and...
AIR PRO: A Pip-Boy Style Air Quality Monitor With Qualia S3 And SEN66
Adafruit Blog | 4 October 2026 | A DIY Fallout-inspired air quality monitor uses multiple sensors and a simple color-coded display to track CO2, particulate matter, VOCs, NOx, temperature, and humidity without relying on cloud services or a smartphone app.
Air Quality Monitoring Will Take On Increased Importance Due To Wildfire Events
WXPR | 3 October 2026 | Wisconsin officials are considering expanding air quality monitoring after severe wildfire smoke pushed pollution to hazardous levels and coincided with a sharp increase in emergency department visits for severe asthma.
Shrinking Air Monitoring Networks Leave Communities With Fewer Options
Governing Magazine | 3 October 2026 | A Floodlight investigation found that several states have restricted regulators from using community-collected low-cost air sensor data for enforcement, raising concerns as the nation’s traditional air monitoring network declines.
No Concern About Air Quality Following Massive Fire At South Haven Plastic Facility, EPA Says
WZZM 13 | 2 October 2026 | The EPA says air monitoring found no ongoing air quality concerns following a massive fire at a plastics manufacturing facility in South Haven, Michigan, despite hours of thick black smoke.
Higher Pollution Levels Linked To Slower Race Times Across Six World Marathon Majors
Technology Networks | 2 October 2026 | A study of more than 2.7 million marathon performances found that higher race-day air pollution was associated with slower finishing times, with recreational runners showing greater effects than elite athletes.
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