Stuck in traffic on Broadway is a seemingly-ordinary, bright blue and white car. Sucking air in through clear plastic tubes that run through the rear window, the car is measuring the quality of New York City's air in a small lab in its trunk—in real time.
– a sooty pollutant that comprises a significant portion of particulate matter. Black carbon and particulate matter have been linked to a long list of health problems, including birth defects and cancer.
Seggos estimates that about 5 million people will receive this monitoring at an initial cost of $11 million annually. The project is mostly funded through a grant from the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority as part of the regional greenhouse gas initiative, the same tool the state used to reduce power plant emissions. Just over a quarter of the funding comes from monies allocated by Gov. Kathy Hochul.
In 2017, the agency tried to find what was causing a surge of air hazards near a public housing campus in Albany’s South End. In addition to black carbon and particulate matter, a stationary tower had detected nitrogen dioxide and cancer-causing benzene. “These folks actually walked about the distance between Albany and Washington D.C. [over the course of the project],” Seggos said. “That knowledge that we gained resulted in a fairly dramatic shift in the way that we proposed to handle truck traffic.”
Some pollutants are higher at different times of day — or on certain days of the week. Air contaminant levels also change seasonally. Ozone is higher in the summer, while nitrogen oxides peak in the winter. Every data point has a timestamp and a GPS location, so the results can help build real-time maps.
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