Details of the updated database have a pollution risk of students nationwide.

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Researchers at the Massachusetts University Amanst Political Economic Research Institute (Peri) are updated AIR TOXICS At School, a web -based platform that tracks toxic air pollution that influences K -12 and higher educational institutions nationwide. DataBase was issued.
This tool provides a toxic weight concentration of pollutants and emphasizes health risks that students and staff may face for industrial emissions. Using data from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Ministry of Education, 131,325 schools from large -scale industrial sources near factories, oil stations, oil depot, metal mining sites, toxic waste facilities. I will match. (Data does not contain mobile sources, agriculture, flacking, forest fire, or pollution from other sources, all of which can greatly contribute to air pollution near the school.)
“Our purpose is to promote access to public information and notify parents, students, staff and teachers, school management, regulatory authorities, companies, and a wide range of people.” Professor Michael Ash, Professor of Peri’s company toxics Information Information Information Project, said Professor Michael Ash.
“This tool is based on the results of a knowledge exercise, and translates into a fair right to create a general participation in the environmental decisions, and to cleanse the residents of clean air, clean water, and to clean the resident planets. Useful for doing.
Users can search for U.S. schools in their names or places, receive detailed pollution reports, and list to toxic chemical substances that are released within 31 miles of nearby industrial facilities. This report also offers a comparison ranking of school exposure to industrial pollution compared to people in the state and all over the country.
For example, in Texas, which is a major contributor to industrial air pollution, the average toxic air hazard at school is more than twice the national average.
Air tools at school work as screening tools, not completely risk evaluation, but their goals are to strengthen general consciousness and involvement. With this database, users can explore facilities ownership, industrial activity, and chemical toxicity.
This tool depends on the data of the EPA toxics release inventory. In 2022, the distributor recorded about 500 toxic chemicals air discharge from 15,600 major industrial facilities nationwide. This is the latest year when the data has been published. The EPA modeling system estimates the pollutant concentration of half -mile grids around these facilities, distinguishing chemical dangers for each pound. Complete information about data configuration and source can be obtained by the technical memo of the project.
The school airtoxic is based on the heritage of the 2008 US survey project, The Smokestack Effect: toxic Air and America’s Schools.
Details: Database: Grconnect.com/tox100/schoolry2022/
Provided by Massachusetts University Amurst
Quotation: Details of the updated database are https: /2025-01-01-Database-polloutions-tudencwide.html on January 29, 2025 on January 29, 2025. Risk nationwide (January 29, 2025)
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