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Exhaust Pipe Position Affects How Much Air Pollution We Breathe, Research Finds
The Guardian | Research shows that diesel vehicles remain the dominant source of traffic-related air pollution, with exhaust design influencing roadside exposure and diesel cars accounting for the majority of nitrogen oxides, black carbon, and fine particles measured in busy urban streets.
Improve Air Quality In Public Transportation
Science | Frequent tunnel cleaning, real-time air quality monitoring, and adoption of next-generation air management technologies can reduce dust resuspension and improve air quality control in enclosed transport environments.
Once Beset By Pollution, Beijing’s Skies Are Clearer Than Ever Thanks To EVs
Electrek | Beijing achieved its cleanest air on record in 2025, with a dramatic drop in PM2.5 pollution and a record number of clear-air days driven by strict emissions controls, industrial limits, and the rapid adoption of electric vehicles.
Detroit Air Quality Declines Due To Winter Weather Patterns: What The Forecast Says
Planet Detroit | Detroit experienced its highest air pollution levels of the year as winter weather conditions trapped PM2.5 near the surface, briefly pushing the AQI into the unhealthy range for sensitive groups before improving later in the week as winds increased.
Why Air Pollution Is An Underreported Health Story Of The Decade
Association of Health Care Journalists | Air pollution is a global public health emergency responsible for about seven million premature deaths each year, harming nearly every organ system and remains dangerously underrecognized in medical training and public awareness.
Satellites Are Now Tracking Big Polluters Around The World
Yale Climate Connections | Climate Trace uses satellite data to track greenhouse gases and harmful air pollutants from industrial facilities worldwide, highlighting how sources of climate emissions like CO₂ and methane also contribute to deadly air pollutants such as PM2.5, SO₂, and NOx.
Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability To Use New Science To Strengthen Air Pollution Rules
ProPublica | The EPA’s authority to tighten air pollution rules based on new science is being questioned amid a legal reconsideration that could limit its ability to regulate hazardous pollutants like ethylene oxide, despite evidence of far greater cancer risks than previously understood.
Crucial To Monitor Air Quality Data
Sarawak Tribune | A public health expert says real-time, hyperlocal air quality data from ESG Smart Poles can help Kuching advance its Healthy City goals by raising public awareness, protecting vulnerable populations, and guiding actionable health, planning, and pollution control measures.
Filtering The Invisible: New Evidence Points To More Efficient Indoor Air Microbe Sampling
Newswise | The study demonstrates that membrane filtration far outperforms liquid and cyclone-based samplers for capturing submicron indoor microbial aerosols, and shows that sampling method, collection medium, and airflow rate critically influence measurement accuracy, with PBS and optimized flow rates yielding the best results.
Poison Air: Time To Tackle Tailpipe Toxins, Environmentalists Focus On Alternative Safety Steps
Telegraph India | Despite extensive road water-sprinkling efforts in Kolkata and Howrah to control dust, air quality remained poor, with experts emphasizing that meaningful improvement requires stricter control of PM2.5 sources such as vehicle emissions, unclean cooking fuels, waste burning, and industrial pollution.
Exhaust Pipe Position Affects How Much Air Pollution We Breathe, Research Finds
The Guardian | Research shows that diesel vehicles remain the dominant source of traffic-related air pollution, with exhaust design influencing roadside exposure and diesel cars accounting for the majority of nitrogen oxides, black carbon, and fine particles measured in busy urban streets.
Improve Air Quality In Public Transportation
Science | Frequent tunnel cleaning, real-time air quality monitoring, and adoption of next-generation air management technologies can reduce dust resuspension and improve air quality control in enclosed transport environments.
Once Beset By Pollution, Beijing’s Skies Are Clearer Than Ever Thanks To EVs
Electrek | Beijing achieved its cleanest air on record in 2025, with a dramatic drop in PM2.5 pollution and a record number of clear-air days driven by strict emissions controls, industrial limits, and the rapid adoption of electric vehicles.
Detroit Air Quality Declines Due To Winter Weather Patterns: What The Forecast Says
Planet Detroit | Detroit experienced its highest air pollution levels of the year as winter weather conditions trapped PM2.5 near the surface, briefly pushing the AQI into the unhealthy range for sensitive groups before improving later in the week as winds increased.
Why Air Pollution Is An Underreported Health Story Of The Decade
Association of Health Care Journalists | Air pollution is a global public health emergency responsible for about seven million premature deaths each year, harming nearly every organ system and remains dangerously underrecognized in medical training and public awareness.
Satellites Are Now Tracking Big Polluters Around The World
Yale Climate Connections | Climate Trace uses satellite data to track greenhouse gases and harmful air pollutants from industrial facilities worldwide, highlighting how sources of climate emissions like CO₂ and methane also contribute to deadly air pollutants such as PM2.5, SO₂, and NOx.
Trump’s EPA Could Limit Its Own Ability To Use New Science To Strengthen Air Pollution Rules
ProPublica | The EPA’s authority to tighten air pollution rules based on new science is being questioned amid a legal reconsideration that could limit its ability to regulate hazardous pollutants like ethylene oxide, despite evidence of far greater cancer risks than previously understood.
Crucial To Monitor Air Quality Data
Sarawak Tribune | A public health expert says real-time, hyperlocal air quality data from ESG Smart Poles can help Kuching advance its Healthy City goals by raising public awareness, protecting vulnerable populations, and guiding actionable health, planning, and pollution control measures.
Filtering The Invisible: New Evidence Points To More Efficient Indoor Air Microbe Sampling
Newswise | The study demonstrates that membrane filtration far outperforms liquid and cyclone-based samplers for capturing submicron indoor microbial aerosols, and shows that sampling method, collection medium, and airflow rate critically influence measurement accuracy, with PBS and optimized flow rates yielding the best results.
Poison Air: Time To Tackle Tailpipe Toxins, Environmentalists Focus On Alternative Safety Steps
Telegraph India | Despite extensive road water-sprinkling efforts in Kolkata and Howrah to control dust, air quality remained poor, with experts emphasizing that meaningful improvement requires stricter control of PM2.5 sources such as vehicle emissions, unclean cooking fuels, waste burning, and industrial pollution.
Air Quality Headlines
Appeal Filed Over Court Decision Letting EPA Suppress Factory Farm Air Pollution Reporting
Animal Legal Defense Fund | 15 October 2025 | The Animal Legal Defense Fund and partner groups appealed a federal court ruling that upheld an EPA rule exempting factory farms from reporting hazardous air emissions like ammonia and hydrogen sulfide, arguing the...
Carnegie Mellon Research Is Behind A New Global Map Of Air Pollution
90.5 WESA | 15 October 2025 | Carnegie Mellon University’s CREATE Lab and Climate TRACE launched a global map visualizing particulate pollution from over 9,500 industrial sources, linking emissions to nearly 9 million annual deaths and supporting environmental justice...
Wildfire Smoke, Regenerative Ag: Cornell Atkinson-EDF Research Aids People And Planet
Cornell Chronicle - Cornell University | 14 October 2025 | Cornell University and the Environmental Defense Fund are studying how dust and wildfire air pollution has evolved since 1850 to better predict future impacts on health, mortality, and economies, with a focus...
Air Enforcement: Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board Proposed Order Addressing Calhoun Chemical Manufacturing Facility
JD Supra | 14 October 2025 | The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board fined Southern Ionics Inc. $3,000 after determining its Calhoun facility exceeded sulfur dioxide emission limits and failed to report hydrogen chloride emissions in violation of its air permit.
Delhi’s Air Quality Remains Poor, Clear Skies Predicted For The Week
The Economic Times | 13 October 2025 | Delhi’s air quality remained poor on Sunday with an AQI of 168, as PM2.5 reached 74 µg/m³ and PM10 hit 159 µg/m³, prompting health precautions despite clear skies and comfortable temperatures.
Community Wish List For New North High School Includes Soccer Stadium, Green Spaces, Better Air Quality
Signal Akron | 13 October 2025 | At a community meeting about Akron’s new $85 million North High School, residents requested features like green space, natural light, better air quality, and athletic facilities, while architects outlined a timeline aiming to complete...
Air Pollution Is An Administrative Failure. Can Pakistan See Through The Haze?
Dawn | 12 October 2025 | The fear of smog has already started lingering upon us. We are once again bracing ourselves to choke in our own neglect. Are we doomed to suffer every year, through climate change, mismanagement, broken promises, or is it just bad luck?
Yerevan’s Air Quality Index At Moderate Level, Mayor Says
Panorama.am | 12 October 2025 | Yerevan’s air quality index reached 85.9 for PM2.5 on Saturday, classified as “moderate”, with Mayor Tigran Avinyan noting it’s acceptable for most residents but could affect those with health conditions.
From Clairton To Climate Week: How A Pittsburgh Pollution Tracker Went Global
Pittsburgh's Public Source | 11 October 2025 | Carnegie Mellon’s CREATE Lab expanded its Plume Pittsburgh pollution-tracking platform into Climate TRACE, a global tool unveiled by Al Gore that visualizes emissions from nearly 10,000 industrial sites worldwide, helping...
Modeling Heterogeneity In Air Pollution Mixture Effects On Birth Weight: A Spatially Varying Coefficient Approach
ScienceDirect.com | 11 October 2025 | Using an extended quantile g-computation model with spatial Bayesian analysis, researchers found that higher mixtures of PM2.5, NO₂, SO₂, O₃, and CO were linked to reduced birth weight in 21 Georgia counties, highlighting...
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