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.
Our Campaigns & Projects
Our Posts
"The rates of [cancer](academic.oup.com/jncics/article/4/6/pkaa088/5919078), including bladder, breast, colon, lung, lymphoma and prostate, was higher among Texas residents living within 30 miles of a refinery, according to the study published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Researchers studied Texas cancer cases and census data from 2001 to 2014."
Proximity to Oil Refineries and Risk of Cancer: A Population-Based Analysis
l.facebook.com
AbstractBackground. The association between proximity to oil refineries and cancer rate is largely unknown. We sought to compare the rate of cancer (bladder, br...."historians and genealogists have combed through the archives, piecing together millions of documents that trace slave voyages, sales, baptisms, marriages and other events that form the life histories of named slaves. However, much of that research has been compiled in isolation at separate institutions, making it more challenging to follow the threads of individuals and families. Daryle Williams, a University of Maryland historian and associate dean in the College of Arts and Humanities, is working to address that as one of the leads on a massive new online database that will be an invaluable research and discovery tool: Enslaved.org: Peoples of the Historic Slave Trade."
Reconstructing Fragmented Lives
l.facebook.com
UMD Researcher Co-Leads New Digital Collection Piecing Together Histories of Enslaved Peoples