Under a bright blue sky in early August dignitaries mingled with pregnant women and children at the Open House for Novant Health’s Women’s Center in Matthews, NC just outside of Charlotte. It was a celebration complete with food, live music, speeches, and tours of the...
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Just like the whoosh of flames that appear when you fire up a gas grill, power plants, petroleum refineries, and other industrial facilities normally see their emissions spike for short periods of time when they start up and shut down for routine maintenance, or...
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A statewide program, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air has been on the road this summer, with more trips planned this fall. MAHA recently met with enthusiastic members from Mecklenburg and Cabarrus Counties to talk about strategies for engaging new members, and is...
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2016 represents the third anniversary of the Western NC Air and Water Quality Conference. The purpose of the conference was to educate the public, government officials and the private sector on current air and water quality issues important to the Unifour region...
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As teenagers, we understand how important solar energy is to our future. Climate change is an ever-growing threat as excess greenhouse gases from non-renewable energy sources continue to warm the planet and damage ecosystems. So, we were excited about the opportunity...
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It's official! As part of our new citizen science initiative, Clean Air Carolina is proud to announce our first Live Streaming AirBeam Particulate Matter monitor is up and running at Garinger High School in Charlotte, North Carolina. You can visit the link at...
read moreNorth Carolina can realize health benefits of between $1,000,000 and $100,000,000 annually by adopting the Clean Power Plan, according to a Harvard University study published in PLOS One that monetizes the public health co-benefits from pollution reduction. The Clean...
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On Monday, July 18, the Clean Air Carolina’s Citizen Science Team headed over to the Beasley Media Group in Charlotte for our shot at prime time (well, if prime time were actually 6:00 am on Saturdays and Sundays). We were meeting Francene Morris of the Francene Marie...
read moreThe Clean Air Carolina Citizen Science group was out educating young scientists today at the Freedom School at the Ada Jenkins Center in Davidson, NC. We were introducing Particulate Air Pollution and its effects to the students who are part of a summer program at the...
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Citizen science is a term that has been thrown around a lot recently, but what does it mean exactly? Technically, citizen science is scientific work undertaken by members of the general public, often in collaboration with or under the direction of professional...
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