Smoke from the wildfires in central Canada has been affecting a large portion of the eastern United States over the past several days, and now the Southeast, including Alabama, is experiencing the effects. The National Weather Service in Birmingham today said it expects smoke from the fires to...
Clean Air Journal
Study: Air Pollution is Deadly
A study recently published in the journal PLOS Medicine confirms what we already know: air pollution is hazardous to human health. Specifically, the authors found that fine particulate matter was...
More Strong Evidence Linking Air Pollution to Dementia
Often, when I read scary articles about air pollution and the frightening effects it has on your and my health, I experience a lot of anxiety...and then proceed to do nothing. I was curious about...
Flawed Consent Decree Fails Local Communities Impacted by ABC Coke’s Illegal Pollution
Conservation groups are charging that a proposed consent decree is woefully inadequate in addressing the impacts of ABC Coke’s excessive and illegal levels of toxic pollution on local communities around northeast Birmingham and Tarrant, Ala.
GASP Comments on JCDH Ambient Air Monitoring Network Plan for 2019
Every year Gasp comments on the Ambient Air Monitoring Plans put out by ADEM and JCDH. These plans contain any changes that either ADEM or JCDH plan to make to their ambient air monitoring network...
‘What’s Up With that Sherman Concrete Plant?’
Here are some of the answers to the most common questions we have been getting about the propose concrete plant relocation to Five Points West.
Clean Air, Healthy Kids: What I Learned as an Intern
While learning the ins and outs of my responsibilities as an intern, I was also learning important information that contributes to the quality of our air.