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.
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Why are we spending so much time and money building our own local air monitoring network? Because the current one has failed miserably.....
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**Yet the federal air quality index (AQI) score for south Philadelphia showed that day as one of the year's cleanest,** according to data from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The score was based on readings from part of the federal network of air quality monitoring devices, which are operated by the city of Philadelphia with oversight from state regulators and the EPA. **None recorded any significant pollution."**
Special Report: U.S. air monitors routinely miss pollution - even refinery explosions
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Reconstructing Fragmented Lives
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UMD Researcher Co-Leads New Digital Collection Piecing Together Histories of Enslaved Peoples