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Greening the Ghetto
According to experts at all levels, we have a global climate crisis. Columbia University released a report in 2006 that documented learning disabilities in children living nearest to fossil fuel emissions sources.
Journal Article
Elemental carbon and PM(2.5 )levels in an urban community heavily impacted by truck traffic
Hunts Point, a 690-acre peninsula in the South Bronx, New York City, is a hub in the tristate (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) freight transportation system. This study was carried out in response to community concerns about potential health effects of exposure to diesel exhaust particulate (DEP). We measured particulate matter < 2.5 microm in aerodynamic diameter (PM(2.5)) and elemental carbon (EC) on sidewalks and tested whether spatial variations in concentrations were related to local truck traffic density. Ten-hour integrated air samples for EC and PM(2.5) were collected for 9 days over a 3-week period in the summer of 1999 at seven geographically distinct intersections. Simultaneous traffic counts were carried out for each sampling event. Traffic was classified into three classes: passenger cars, small trucks, and large trucks (diesel vehicles). Mean diesel vehicle volumes ranged from 9.3 to 276.5 vehicles/hr across sites. Mean EC concentrations by site ranged from 2.6 microg/m(3) at the control site to 7.3 microg/m(3) along a designated truck route. Linear regression of site-specific mean EC concentration on mean large truck counts predicted an increase of 1.69 microg/m(3) EC per 100 large trucks/hr (SE = 0.37; p = 0.01; R(2) = 0.84). Average PM(2.5) concentrations by site ranged 1.6-fold (19.0-29.9 microg/m(3)) and were more weakly associated with local traffic. Variations over time for PM(2.5 )were more pronounced, ranging almost 4-fold (8.9-34.4 microg/m(3)). These results show that airborne EC concentrations, an important component of DEP, are elevated in Hunts Point and that the impact varies across the community as a function of large truck traffic.
Journal Article
Elemental Carbon and PM2.5Levels in an Urban Community Heavily Impacted by Truck Traffic
Hunts Point, a 690-acre peninsula in the South Bronx, New York City, is a hub in the tristate (New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut) freight transportation system. This study was carried out in response to community concerns about potential health effects of exposure to diesel exhaust particulate (DEP). We measured particulate matter < 2.5 μm in aerodynamic diameter ( PM2.5) and elemental carbon (EC) on sidewalks and tested whether spatial variations in concentrations were related to local truck traffic density. Ten-hour integrated air samples for EC and PM2.5were collected for 9 days over a 3-week period in the summer of 1999 at seven geographically distinct intersections. Simultaneous traffic counts were carried out for each sampling event. Traffic was classified into three classes: passenger cars, small trucks, and large trucks (diesel vehicles). Mean diesel vehicle volumes ranged from 9.3 to 276.5 vehicles/hr across sites. Mean EC concentrations by site ranged from 2.6 μ g/ m3at the control site to 7.3 μ g/ m3along a designated truck route. Linear regression of site-specific mean EC concentration on mean large truck counts predicted an increase of 1.69 μ g/ m3EC per 100 large trucks/hr (SE = 0.37; p = 0.01; R2=0.84). Average PM2.5concentrations by site ranged 1.6-fold (19.0-29.9 μ g/ m3) and were more weakly associated with local traffic. Variations over time for PM2.5were more pronounced, ranging almost 4-fold (8.9-34.4 μ g/ m3). These results show that airborne EC concentrations, an important component of DEP, are elevated in Hunts Point and that the impact varies across the community as a function of large truck traffic.
Journal Article
sustainable solutions
In light of the New York (NY) City's projected growth, it is in the city's best interest to fund and implement a comprehensive citywide planning process with a one-year timeframe for completion and five-year tracking. This process should evaluate the real costs of doing business as usual, provide significant financial and personnel support toward building a comprehensive sustainability agenda, and establish a timeline for implementation within all city operations. The city should explore developing a way to impose tariffs on any goods and packaging that cannot be recycled or reused, require any major development that receives city subsidies to do it entirely green, and expect developers to pay for the privilege of doing business anywhere in NY -- especially if their projects run even the slightest risk of reducing the quality of life in overburdened neighborhoods.
Journal Article
Setting the example for a 'greener' New York
Compare it to New York. I am from the South Bronx, a low-income Latino and African-American neighborhood that has been forced by city and state regulatory agencies to accommodate a disproportionate amount of New York City's regional infrastructure. Our neighbors are waste and sewage facilities. We suffer 55,000 diesel trucks per week, hauling most of the greater metropolitan area's food, as well as waste of all sorts, into the borough and out. The threat of a new power plant, capable of generating far more megawatts than the Bronx is ever projected to need - with polluting emissions to match - looms on our horizon. This profile is not exclusive to the South Bronx. Other low- income communities suffer similar burdens. Southeast Queens and Williamsburg-Greenpoint in Brooklyn join the South Bronx in handling almost 80 percent of the city's solid waste. Brooklyn's Sunset Park, along with Williamsburg-Greenpoint, hosts a plethora of power plants and diesel truck traffic.
Newspaper Article
Make It Right
The value of the inland property they are protecting far outweighs the costs of restoration. Since we know climate change predicts more and more severe weather, we need to put Americans to work restoring wetlands on a grand scale, right now. lobs, environmental restoration, and reduced risk-this is the kind of shovel-ready project the U.S. needs yesterday.
Magazine Article