Mar 30, 2024 | Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Low Cost Monitoring Project, Monitoring, ROCIS Data, Solutions
Radon Reality Check: Testing Isn’t Enough, and Here’s Why by Shaina Lacap The ROCIS radon data shows that we should all be testing for radon, but testing isn’t enough. While most Americans are aware of the risks associated with smoking, the health impacts of radon...
Mar 30, 2024 | Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Low Cost Monitoring Project, Monitoring, ROCIS Data
What we found by measuring CO2 Don Fugler Carbon dioxide (CO2) is everywhere. It’s in the breath you exhale, the emissions from your gas stove, and the smoke from your fireplace. Plants use it during photosynthesis to produce oxygen and sugars. Everyone knows CO2 as...
Mar 30, 2024 | Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Monitoring, Uncategorized
Low-cost air monitoring is a rapidly evolving field with the acceleration of new and modified products. One monitor which performed well in a study from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab is the PurpleAir PA-II Dual Laser Air Sensor. This laboratory analysis provided...
Mar 30, 2024 | Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Monitoring
“Weather inversions don’t inherently stink. It’s the pollution trapped by inversions that stinks.” —Mark Dixon Smoke has been a fixture in the coal-rich inversion-prone Pittsburgh region for centuries. Only in the 1900s did community members finally come together to...
Mar 30, 2024 | Indoor/Outdoor Air Quality, Monitoring
For 150 years, Millvale has sat opposite Lawrenceville on the Allegheny River, sharing in many of the economic successes of the region. When much of local industry left Pittsburgh with a trail of economic and environmental distress, Millvale shared in that as well....