As we continue to experience air quality concerns across our area, a Harlem-based nonprofit is monitoring one of the city's hotspots. TVJessi shows us how the organization WeACT4EJ steps in to fill a gap in city and state data.
Outside an old building at Amsterdam and West 152nd Street, new technology is hard at work, sharing real-time readings of the haze billowing above.
"For example, in the evening when we'd have trucks going by to do their deliveries, there's a huge spike at night," said Jaron Burke, an environmental health manager for WE ACT. "We can see if that burden is indeed being shifted Uptown and if it matches the models that the state and everyone else put together," said Burke.supplements its own monitors with Aclima cars
Diaz brought one of the cars to WE ACT to show students in the summer program how their cars capture air quality measurements for monitoring. Aclima shares this data with the state quarterly.
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