Environmental > Related Links

Websites about Air Quality

• CCA: Coalition for Clean Air
• CHEC: Resource for environmental health risks affecting children
• EDF: Environmental Defense Fund
• Livable Streets: Re-envisoning US cities
  
• Nescaum: Northeastern US clean air organization
• NRDC: Research and advocacy about environmental pollution
• WEACT: West Harlem environmental action group building community power to fight environmental racism and improvehealth, protection and policy.
  
• WEACT Maps: NYC-area maps related to pollution sources, asthma rates and socio-economic factors.

Websites about Smoking

• Campaign for a Tobacco-Free Kids: National advocacy for prevention of tobacco use in youth.
• Kick Butts Day: National toolkit fo resources for schools.
• NYC Coalition for a SmokeFree City: NYC policy, advocacy and resources.
• Map of NYC tobacco retailers: pharmacies and other outlets.

Articles about Air Quality

• A Multi-Site Analysis of between black carbon and idling ... AFSZ air quality research. (download)
• Associations of PM2.5 and Black Carbon Concentrations with Traffic, Idling, Background Pollution ... AFSZ air quality research.
• US Surgeon General's Report ... How Tobacco Smoke Causes Disease
• Associations of PM2.5 and black carbon ... traffic, idling, background pollution and meterology during dismissal time
• Idle Moments Turn into Tons of Air Pollutants at Schools ... School bus idling and airborne pollution, based on AFSZ research.
• Healthier Students Are Better Learners ... Air quality is linked to health, which is linked, in turn, to school achievement.
• Lung Development of Young Monkeys ... Exposed to Ozone Pollution
• Diesel Exhaust Particles ... Asthma
• Long-Term Exposure to Particulate Pollution ... Lung Cancer
• Slower Lung Function Growth Rate ... in Children Exposed to Pollution
• High Diesel Exhaust Levels ... School Buses
• Findings on Air Pollution ... Asthma, Other Respiratory Illnesses