One of Clean Air Carolina’s interns conducted his own citizen science research over the summer. Brian Kornegay, a student at UNC Pembroke, embarked on a summer project to measure PM2.5 levels across various areas in North Carolina. The goal of the project is to put...
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On September 6, the Asthma Alliance of North Carolina held its quarterly meeting where they discussed the planning of the spring Asthma Summit, the NC Healthy Homes Provider Referral Database, wildfire alerts and communications and other updates. Jonathan Navarro,...
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A long time coming for cleaner buses in Charlotte. It has been a long time coming for the Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS) to invest so much money in vehicles and projects not directly associated with the fantastically successful Lynx Light Rail line. Since the...
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Ozone, what it is and where it comes from? This year, for the Charlotte region, has been a challenging season for ozone pollution and the particles, gases and other volatile organic compounds that create it. As a professor at UNC Charlotte, member of the Mecklenburg...
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Western Piedmont Council of Governments (WPCOG) On August 4th, Calvin Cupini, Citizen Science Program Manager presented Clean Air Carolina's AirKeepers Program at the Western NC Air Quality Conference at Lenoir Rhyne University. This annual event traces back to 2007,...
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Clean Air Carolina was at Camp Open Airways in Kannapolis, NC this August leading a session on air quality education for 29 kids with asthma. High School volunteers assisting with the program held air quality flags up for the campers to see as they learned a song...
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On Saturday, July 22, during the height of Ozone Season, we launched our very first membership meeting and a public workshop on how to create an Ozone Bio-monitoring Garden. Did you know ground-level ozone pollution not only impacts human health, but plant life too?...
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What do you do when you find out the road “improvements” in front of your home include a tractor trailer turn around that will take out 1/3 of your yard? You reel over the details, imagine how the plan will reshape your family’s future. You sit in shock and ruminate...
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In the politically-charged world of climate change, an important paper appeared in Science last month, written by Solomon Hsiang and 11 others, assessing the regional impacts of the projected changes in climate on the economic productivity within the U.S.
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This summer, Clean Air Carolina intern, Xirui (Coraline) Xu, and Medical Advocates for Healthy Air (MAHA) intern, Peijia Yan, compiled Air Quality Health Reports for nine counties in North Carolina. The reports provide an overview of air quality in each county,...
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