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The Problem: Richmond Is Home To Industries That Sometimes Pollute
August 25, 2012
Chevron’s Richmond Refinery – the company’s second largest refinery – spewed toxic smoke over Richmond and San Pablo sending more than 14,000 people in the East Bay to medical facilities with smoke-related complaints.
Step 4: Combine Census Data With VasP ReadingsVasP Data: Nitrogen Dioxide
Census Data: Median Household Income
High Median Income Areas Had Worse NO2
Readings!
Studies on human populations indicate that long-term exposure to NO2 levels currently observed in Europe may decrease lung function and increase the risk of respiratory symptoms such as acute bronchitis and cough and phlegm, particularly in children.
Step 5: Find Correlations Between Census Data And VasP ReadingsCorrelation Engine Query: Which Areas Are Correlated With Medium To High (360 – 528) Levels Of Nitrogen Dioxide?
• Healthy living: Real-time hyper-local air quality measurements available to the public help citizens with Asthma or other respiratory issues plan
• Energy efficiency: measuring hyper-local CO2 emissions can indicate areas for reducing emissions
• Urban Sustainability: hyper-local air quality metrics, available online in real time give a broader picture of the air quality per neighborhood vs. static measuring stations
• Great Outdoors: • Provides a citizen facing information service that provides historical and real-
time information about environmental air quality• Enhances existing datasets (census data) through additional environmental
sensors (gathered from VasP)• Enhances the value of new datasets in terms of community-and/or policy
impact (correlations of census information with hyper-local air quality data)• Environmental justice/equity considerations:
• Which neighborhoods are suffering the most? • Which locations are polluting the most?