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PA DEP has declared an Air Quality Action Day for Susquehanna Valley Area, PA on Feb 17
Tomorrow’s Forecast Tuesday, Feb 17: 101 AQI Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups Particle Pollution (2.5 microns) Tuesday’s forecast: Air quality will be unhealthy for sensitive groups of the population most of the day Tuesday, especially in the morning and again Tuesday night, with average concentrations in the code ORANGE range.
PA DEP declares Code Orange alert for Tuesday, Feb. 10
***AN AIR QUALITY ACTION DAY IS IN EFFECT FOR TUESDAY*** Current Conditions at 2 p.m. EST Monday afternoon: Despite a mostly sunny sky, temperatures are struggling in the middle 20s. Air quality remains in the good range, but fine particle pollution (PM2.5) levels will increase significantly overnight and during the day Tuesday as a strong […]
Exposure to air pollution worsens Alzheimer’s disease, Penn research finds
Living in areas with high concentration of air pollution is associated with increased buildup of amyloid and tau proteins in the brains of Alzheimer’s patients, accelerating cognitive decline. Read more . . .
See where wildfire smoke is getting worse in the U.S.
Washington Post, Sept. 18, 2025, by By Shannon Osaka, John Muyskens and Daniel Wolfe Every year, millions of Americans’ lungs are filled with wildfire smoke — smoke that stretches from the northwest tip of Washington state to the East Coast’s most populated cities. It’s blown in from thousand-acre Canadian wildfires and from blazes in the American West. That smoke […]
Air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia, research suggest
The Guardian, Sept. 4, 2025 by Ian Sample, Science Editor Fine-particulate air pollution can drive devastating forms of dementia by triggering the formation of toxic clumps of protein that destroy nerve cells as they spread through the brain, research suggests. Read more
Looking From Space, Researchers Find Pollution Spiking Near E-Commerce Hubs
By Hiroko Tabuchi New York Times, July 24, 2024 Research showed truck-related releases of nitrogen dioxide, which can cause asthma, concentrated around some 150,000 warehouses nationwide. Read more …
Warehouses As an Environmental Justice Issue August 29, 2017 by Quan Yuan When we think of locally undesirable land uses, we often think of large power plants, puffing single plumes of pollution. But many plumes of pollution from trucks traveling to and from warehouses can have equally large impacts on health. Read more …
Warehouses worsen local air pollution Truck traffic associated with the facilities increases NO2 by 20%, study finds by Krystal Vasquez August 7, 2024 Warehouses in the US worsen local air pollution, according to a new study. Using satellite data to study the air quality around nearly 150,000 warehouses, researchers found that nitrogen dioxide levels were 20% higher […]
DEP declares Code Orange Action for Particulate on Tuesday, Aug. 5
The PA Department of Environmental Protection is concerned about wildfire smoke from Canada drifting into Pennsylvania. Excerpts from PADEP message dated Aug. 4, 2025: A(n) Air Quality Action Day has been declared for Susquehanna Valley Area, PA, on Tuesday, Aug 5 Tomorrow’s Forecast Tuesday, Aug 5: 102 AQI Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups Particle Pollution […]
