Downwinders at Risk – Cleaner Air Through Citizen Action

What am I seeing?

This is a live interactive feed of air monitors in the SharedAirDFW Community Air Monitoring Network. It also shows EPA and Purple Air air monitors in the DFW area. All of these monitors are recording levels of Particulate Matter air pollution. The SharedAirDFW network is a collaboration of the University of Texas at Dallas, Downwinders at Risk, Paul Quinn College, the City of Plano, and Dallas County Colleges.

Over the next 12-16 months, the SharedAirDFW network is scheduled to deploy over 100 new air monitors throughout. the North Texas area, including the front line communities of Joppa, West Dallas, and Midlothian.

For more information on the Dangers of Particulate Matter, see our library of studies and articles we’ve collected on our Particulate Matters page.

Our Mission

Downwinders at Risk Education Fund is dedicated to taking effective action on behalf of those being harmed by air pollution. Our goal is to build a strong grassroots constituency and create new strategies for clean air in North Texas. We do this by informing, connecting, and mobilizing citizens to become active participants in the decision-making that affects the air we breathe. In doing so, we improve both the quality of our air and the quality of our democracy.

We’re committed to working for environmental justice with communities impacted by the worst pollution; to deliver the best science to those communities; to making decisions about pollution and polluters more democratic; to providing solutions to the problems we spotlight, and to funding staff devoted to grassroots empowerment.

Citizen Science

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Our Campaigns & Projects

Shared Air

Neighborhood Self Defense Project

Southern Sector Rising

Portable Air Monitoring Training

College of Constructive Hell Raising

Particulate Matter Air Pollution

Our Posts

We Did This: A Shingle Mountain Clean-Up is Coming

By jim | December 15, 2020

Send Your Public Comments for a SAFE Shingle Mountain Clean-Up

By jim | November 25, 2020

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"There is an enormously high flow of blood [to the retina] and we think that as a consequence of that the distribution of pollutants is greater to the eye than to other places,” said Prof Paul Foster, at University College London, UK, and who was part of the study team. “Proportionately, air pollution is going to become a bigger risk factor as other risk factors are brought under control.” ... See MoreSee Less

Air pollution linked to higher risk of irreversible sight loss

www.theguardian.com

Large UK study found small pollution rise associated with more cases of age-related macular degeneration

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College of Constructive Hell-Raising

43 minutes ago

"The police on that winter morning in 1969, arriving with a search warrant after a gun battle between police and the Panthers the month before, fired a barrage of more than 90 bullets into the apartment. They claimed they had been fired on themselves, pointing to what they said were numerous bullet holes in doors and walls. But, as reporters for the Chicago Daily News quickly discovered, police photos of the supposed bullet holes showed nothing more than nail heads." ... See MoreSee Less

The killing of two Black Panthers, the secrets of the FBI — and our nation’s long fight for police reform

chicago.suntimes.com

Newly released documents shed disturbing light on the FBI’s involvement in a 1969 police raid that resulted in the deaths of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark.