Community Air Monitoring
Clean Air is one of nine organizations statewide which is currently running a Community Air Monitoring Capacity-Building Program funded by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation’s Environmental Justice Office. Click here to read the full press release from NYS DEC.
We are currently working to recruit and train our first cohort of community leaders to host Purple Air Monitors at their homes, schools, churches, community centers or businesses, and run neighborhood-level community air monitoring programs. Once we finish training our first cohort and the first round of installations, we will be reaching out to the next class. Click here to apply to be a Community Leader/be a host site, or to sign up to learn more .
As part of this initiative, we are also working with the TESA Collective to develop a card game to educate the general public about air quality and community organizing – please reach out to Bridge if you are interested in joining this effort.
You can look at realtime air quality data on Purple Air’s website by clicking here.
Check out this blog post for resources about wildfire smoke.
The DEC also recently shared the results of the Mobile Air Monitoring project for the Buffalo and Niagara Falls Disadvantaged Communities – click here to see the map, or read our blog post summary.
Please join us on October 15 from 5:30-7:30pm at the Buffalo Science Museum, 1020 Humboldt Parkway in Buffalo for NYS DEC’s Community Air Monitoring Public Meeting for our area. There is also a related survey you can take to give the DEC your feedback on these results which will remain open through the end of 2024 – please take it today, and share the link with peers!
