Good evening everyone Martina Zimmerman- SWEA

Gabby Troutman - Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Charlie DEEVA DE Electric Vehicle Association

Peter Jones, back from JHU! Glad to be here.

Rev. Heather Rion Starr here, Minister for the Unitarian Universalists of southern Delaware.

Travis from southwest VA. I am a data scientist and looking forward to this session in particular. Thanks!

Greetings, I am Curt in Delaware; independent scholar: energy and environmental policy

Michael Payan- Sussex Health & Environmental Network

Daphne Heppding concerned citizen in Baltimore ,Md. Hello to all

Chad Oba Friends of BuckinghamGood Friday evening everyone!

Sophie Stanko - SBCLT

Vania Fong, research curation fellow with Public Lab, working with Jeanette!

Marilynn Marsh-Robinson, Environmental Defense Fund (NC)

Catherine Masoud - PhD candidate at UT Austin!

Hi everyone, Jay Monteverde with Namati and the Mid-Atlantic Environmental Justice Coalition

Tracy O. Garrett, Ph.D. NAACP/ Resident of a Hot spot

hi jay

Sharon Todd, a private citizen living near legacy nuclear contamination and a TVA electricity generating steam plant in East Tennessee.

Hi Daphne!

Vivek Ravichandran, graduate student at UMD and interested in building data skills

maria payan- SRAP

Jim Young from SWEA

RuthAnn from Lenapehokink

Friends of Lenape Everywhere

That's great to know I live in Baltimore

Thats amazing

There was a reported spill by the fire dept. in Curtis Bay I listened. This was in Curtis Bay the Rd. was closed for Hours because of the septic or whatever polluted Curtis creek. Neither Baltimore city or Anne Arundel county wanted to take responsibility. Very confusing

Had no idea so much public data available! Wow! Do any of our regulatory agencies really look at this ? Yup they often miss rural EJ communities!

Me Either

Like compressor station blowdowns!

If they know we are collecting data on these polluters WHY are they being so stupid and reporting false data ??

Access to data is not equitably distributed.

A recent Aclima/Google partnership ascertained 40 million data measurements of greenhouse gas pollutants, and these were at a quite hyperlocalized level. Relying on city-wide data levels could be fatal. Especially the inequitable placement of sensors (who gets accurate readings?)

Not only accurate but toxins that aren’t included in the measuring

CAFOS in Wisconsin self report, therefore most problems never come to light unless neighbors report

This is disparing

Baltimore Curtis Bay

Washington DC 20018

elcome

Live EDA is brave, good on you!

Accessing the Aclima/Google dataset does require you to fill out a google form stating your research purpose: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSf_4GIkK1tmVMFRSxz42KgvOM3Z3NGeOFFje_FS8FBbz1vTig/viewform)

YES

I'd note that the air quality isn't more zoomed in than city level (as it says)

Patapsco river and Curtis creek in Curtis bay

Thank you

Question: the first site you showed us, enviro.epa.gov/myenvironment, I can’t get to load. Other websites are loading fine for me. Is there something more to accessing this site? It looked broad brush & particularly user-friendly, to me.

Answered it; went about it through more general search, and now it worked. Sorry to bother y’all! https://enviro.epa.gov/

your good

do you have any info so people can know what should be there, say under the statute, and have an idea what is missing?

Thank you Jeanette, these resources are great.

ThANK YOU

Sorry

Thanks for your presentation

Where do you get the tools to monitor

That is something we noticed too. The monitors are not near the polltion

At the University of Maryland, we are using Purple Air monitors to gather hyperlocalized PM2.5 measurements for the surrounding DC/Maryland/Northern Virginia area, and are uploading this data to the Crowd Map which is publicly available. This fill in the gaps that we observe in existing tools, and the CSV files make it easy/easier for the general public to navigate

One thing that can be helpful is diligently calling your state environmental agency to complain about pollution / smells etc. A lot of times facilities are able to say "were good corporate neighbors" because there are no complaints on file. Sometimes even calling officials is not as good as calling in a pollution complaint to the agency Cuz officials aren't putting complaints in the company's record in the system.

Exactly

Thanks Jay

For what it's worth, it may be worth reaching out to local universities for help regarding data cleaning and analysis. There are often students looking for experience and to help.

Purple air monitors are really useful

And the website has the crowdsourced map with everyone who is using a purple air monitor. It got really popular during wildfires

Atmotube portable air monitors - https://atmotube.com

In DE, Clean Air Council is supplying some PM 2.5 monitors

https://map.purpleair.com/

https://www.habitatmap.org/airbeam/buy-it-now

These and Purple Airs go for ~$249

Brenda, I live near a large university, and that makes a difference.

This site has a great comparison of cost, measured pollutants, and accuracy of different air quality sensors http://www.aqmd.gov/aq-spec/evaluations

Yes Brenda! I can only speak for my Center, CEEJH - we abide by Community-based participatory research principles for the reasons you mention! Traditional research can be (and oftentimes is) incredibly extractive and not beneficial to community members

Thanks for saying that

WE have more info available to stop this pollution and it goes on more then we can comprehend. One planet its our planet I am so ashamed of all that are suffering through this greed

YES

Friends of Buckingham used southwest Pennsylvania Environmental Health Project for air monitors and assessments. Http://www.environmentalhealthproject.org/health-issues/air

I agree. how many workshops do we keep taking before we get our voice heard?

Thank you so much Chad!

As researchers, it should be our duty to build trust in these communities and that means, as you said Tracy, seeing where you are living firsthand

exactly we definitely need boots on the ground and get work done in our community for. a better quality of life

Yes, I agree Dr. Tracy

Yeah, my analytics graduate students work with local groups. If you're here you have some kind of expertise, you just need to connect with people with other skills.

There is no political will to do the science where the "job providers" will have to be held accountable

Tracy O. Garrett, Ph.D. 202-271-8650

it's hard work

Brenda M. Trejo brenda@gwu.edu

https://environmentaljusticealliance.org

Agreed. Zoning is weaponized against communities

https://publiclab.org/wiki/fellows

https://chej.org/ has a long history of organizing communities to fix envtl problems

I am going to look at these fellowships, ty Jeanette. This is all neat!

Great to hear, Travis, please do reach out if you have any questions! jeanette@publiclab.org

I appreciated the chance to listen to the really genuine & heartfelt exchange that occurred here just now. Thanks for bringing folks together here!

Great resources but many gaps exist in databases

We need more tools to help find the source of pollution and send to the agency in real time

Likewise, thanks so much to all for sharing

I really appreciate learning about these new tools and look forward to using them in my work

I am going to look more into publicly available data, and adding to it. It looks like Public Lab has an active GitHub page! Thank you for putting these together Rachel, it was definitely worth the time on my end.

I have learned about of di

there are good cumulative data sites available

I really love hearing about the importance of the open science movement as a whole and learned a lot about how it can be used by communities.

Jeanette, Thank you for this. It was very helpful

I agree with this: I appreciated the chance to listen to the really genuine & heartfelt exchange that occurred here just now. Thanks for bringing folks together here!

u learned so much from the lectures the importance of the quality of water really stuck out and how much it relates to health and the environment

Good resources and data info to know about . Thanks!

Thank you for a wonderful presentation on not just the opportunities to utilize data but also the limitations that persist.

Thank you Rachel and all! Great info and learned a lot myself

It was great to hear about all the different tools you can utilize to access pollution data but it was interesting to hear issues related to the placement of monitors and how some communities aren’t effectively monitored.

Thank you so much Rachel for this series of workshops. Thank you Jeannette for your presentation!!!

I have learned more about the impact on public health from pollution and the importance and urgency of becoming an advocate for EJ communities.

Appreciate the presentation. I had no idea about the degree to which even younger people are getting involved in this kind of activity.

Thank you Rachel!

rcasteel@umd.edu

Thanks so much, everyone, for coming and talking about this topic!

Thank you, everyone!

Thank you

Again Rachel you have done a fantastic job !

Thanks Rachel and everyone!

thank you everyone it was awesome

Thank you Jeanette and Rachel.

Thank you.

Have a great evening

Thank you!

Thank you so much!! This was an incredible series!

Thank you!

Thank you!!

we need one another!