Making the Invisible Visible - Shining a Light on Warehouse Truck Air Pollution - Aileen Nowlan

Air pollution the goods supply chain, most trucks today raises the risk of preterm birth and low birth also contribute to noise pollution, traffic weight.3 For adults, air pollution increases and safety concerns, and, notably, harmful the risk of dementia,4 in addition to heart air pollution. [...] Proximity map users can work with map on demographic and layers to gain a better understanding of the Additionally, the tool removes bodies health characteristics disproportionate proximity of communities of water using the 2015 Census Areal of neighbors, and of color and areas of low wealth to areas Hydrography National Geodatabase before making apportionment calculations. [...] the ability to compare a set of facilities to GIS application that applies aerial one another based on demographic and apportionment to estimate the characteristics of populations living health characteristics of neighbors, and to Methodology near specific facilities or other pollution compare neighbors around a set of facilities sources, using the U. [...] “Early life exposure to air pollution and incidence of childhood asthma, allergic rhinitis and eczema.” European Respiratory Journal 55.2 (2020).) Environmental Defense Fund | edf.org 11 More data is needed on warehouses and air pollution Warehouse locations are hard Monitoring and modeling aren’t to identify keeping up It is very hard to identify the locations of The extent of air monitoring, and. [...] Many of these Satellite Insights In 2019, satellite-observed levels of NO2 in neighborhoods with the greatest percentage of residents of color were more than twice as high as levels in the neighborhoods with the fewest residents of color.