State officials hope to gather hyperlocal data that could lead to understanding hot spots of air pollutants like greenhouse gases and particulate matter.
New York’s air monitoring initiative has also launched in Buffalo and the Capital Region. Another six communities, including Brooklyn, Queens, Mount Vernon/Yonkers and Hempstead will start the air monitoring program by this fall.
"As New York continues to forge a greener path ahead to make our state cleaner and healthier, we are also correcting decades of environmental injustices that have overburdened disadvantaged communities for far too long," Hochul said in a press release. "As someone who grew up in the shadow of a steel plant that contributed to orange skies and a polluted Lake Erie, I know firsthand the urgency of our fight against air pollution and climate change.
The initiative plans to “measure air pollution on a block-by-block level during different times, days and seasons. In total, the monitoring will provide an initial screening of community-level air quality sources for further evaluation.”have mounted sensors inside Google’s Street View cars rolling through California.
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