The lack of air-quality monitoring capabilities across the U.S. affects the health of millions of people and disproportionately impacts minority and low socioeconomic-status communities, say researchers. Motivated by a new U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency standard for air pollution , the team employed a model for fine-scale air pollution mapping using real-world data, and it indicates there is an urgent need to address gaps in the agency's monitoring network.
"The national air pollution monitoring network aims to act as an umbrella to protect all Americans," says lead author Yuzhou Wang."But we saw that unfortunately, millions of people, especially underrecognized populations, will not receive adequate protection from the monitors. Thus, they will receive fewer benefits from the more stringent standard."
While the EPA is now modifying the national air pollution monitoring network to account for environmental justice, the adequacy of this network to correctly identify areas that do not meet the new air pollution standards has not been thoroughly investigated. So, researchers led by Joshua Apte used a statistical model to identify gaps in the monitoring network's coverage across the continental U.S.
The team identified metro locations to add new air pollution monitors across the U.S. that could help identify large populations that currently breathe air more polluted than the EPA's new standards. The metro areas are in Texas, Ohio, California, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Missouri and Idaho.Our latest study shows there are racial/ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in air pollution emissions reductions, particularly in the industry and energy generation sectors. The findings provide a ...
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