Aviation-Related Impacts on Ultrafine Particle Number Concentrations Outside and Inside Residences near an Airport

Jet engine exhaust is a significant source of ultrafine particles and aviation-related emissions can adversely impact air quality over large areas surrounding airports. We ...

KUOW: These Are Washington’s Top 10 Climate Polluters 01/29/16

he Tesoro refinery in Anacortes, one of Washington’s top 10 sources of greenhouse gases. Credit: Flickr Photo/Scott Butner (CC BY NC ND 2.0) These Are Washington’s Top 10 Climate Polluters By John Ryan Jan 29, 2016 at 9:30 am The biggest climate polluters in Washington have been identified, according to numbers out this week: the

Obama’s Climate Betrayal

Elizabeth Kolbert Some international disputes are significant for symbolic reasons, others for substantive ones. The current conflict between the United States and the European Union over airline-emissions limits is both. Unfortunately this means that the U.S. is doubly on the wrong side. The Obama Administration ought to be applauding the Europeans. Instead it’s threatening a

Plane Exhaust Kills More People Than Plane Crashes

Toxic pollutants kill at least ten thousand annually, study says. By Mason Inmanfor National Geographic News Published October 10, 2010   There’s a new fear of flying: You’re more likely to die from exposure to toxic pollutants in plane exhaust than in a plane crash, a new study suggests. In recent years, airplane crashes have