by Ryan Wilmot | Aug 8, 2026 | Articles
Summer encourages people to spend more time outdoors, but the same weather that brings beach days, cookouts, and outdoor exercise can also create difficult air-quality conditions. High temperatures and strong sunlight encourage ground-level ozone formation. Wildfires...
by Ryan Wilmot | Aug 7, 2026 | Articles
Air quality is not one profession. The people who measure pollution, inspect factories, investigate workplace exposures, design ventilation systems, analyze atmospheric chemistry, and enforce environmental regulations may all work in air quality while having very...
by Ryan Wilmot | Aug 6, 2026 | Articles
Air pollution is often associated with factories, highways, wildfires, and power plants. Yet some of the pollution around American homes and neighborhoods comes from much smaller sources repeated millions of times every day. Starting the car before leaving the house,...
by Ryan Wilmot | Aug 5, 2026 | Articles
Wind turbines are unusual among large power-generating systems because the energy source arrives at the facility already moving. There is no coal to burn, natural gas to ignite, or fuel oil to deliver. Wind pushes against the turbine blades, turning a generator that...
by Ryan Wilmot | Aug 4, 2026 | Articles
A major sporting event can bring tens of thousands of people into a relatively small area within a few hours. Cars and buses arrive, kitchens begin cooking, generators and equipment operate, crowds fill the stands, and sometimes fireworks or pyrotechnics mark the...
by Ryan Wilmot | Aug 3, 2026 | Articles
When firefighters extinguish a house fire, the emergency may be over, but the damage is rarely limited to the area that burned. Heat can weaken structural materials, smoke can travel throughout the building, and water used during firefighting can soak walls, flooring,...
