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The Gas Utility Industry is Gaslighting Us

Union of Concerned Scientists

Certainly, gas stoves are just one source of air pollution in the District. But a study published in the December 2022 issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health calculated that gas stoves are responsible for 12.7

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Using Environmental Data As a Business: Where Do You Start?

Breezometer

What can companies do with new forms of actionable environmental intelligence and what value does it bring? Here is everything you need to know about leveraging environmental data as a business in 2021. Defining ‘Environmental Data’. Some examples of methods used to collect data include: Air pollution monitoring stations.

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Environment & Energy Educational Opportunities For Students & Adults

PA Environment Daily

[PaEN] -- Pennsylvania Oil & Gas Weekly Compliance Dashboard - May 27 to June 2 -- Conventional Operators Fail To Start Plugging, Fail To Cleanup Spills; More NOVs For Abandoning Wells [PaEN] -- PA Oil & Gas Industrial Facilities: Permit Notices/Opportunities To Comment - June 3 [PaEN] -- DEP Posts 59 Pages Of Permit-Related Notices In June (..)

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PennFuture 25th Anniversary Celebrations Honor 7 Pennsylvanians For Fighting Climate Change, Industrial Pollution

PA Environment Daily

Today, he is a Presidential Distinguished Professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania. Napoleon Nelson with the Champion of the Environment Award for his commitment to environmental justice and green technologies in Philadelphia and across the state.

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Thursday PA Environment & Energy NewsClips - 6.1.23

PA Environment Daily

Click Here to watch online. -- House Committee Holds June 5 Hearing On Bill Requiring Environmental Impact Reports On Certain Electric Generation, Waste, Major Air Pollution Sources Locating In Already Burdened Communities [PaEN] -- PA Assn. Room 8E-B East Wing.

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Ask a Scientist: Fighting Big Ag Pollution with Maps and Math

Union of Concerned Scientists

Geostatistics can be applied to any spatially dependent data, and it is commonly used in environmental science investigations. In that case, I used math to estimate the new rule’s devastating impacts and drew maps to show which communities’ waters would suffer more industrial and agricultural pollution.

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Academy leads effort to map Philly’s heat and air quality

Academy of Natural Sciences

It raises awareness about the challenges of climate change, urban heat and air pollution and gives communities information they can use to explore and advocate for different solutions.” . The sensors will record temperature, humidity, air pollution, time and location every second. Photo courtesy of Octavia Jones.