Air Pollution

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He’s making pollution worse | Grist

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We’re ignoring the biggest Pruitt scandal: He’s making pollution worse | Grist

We get all worked up about murder but not cardiac arrest and cancer caused primarily by a handful of the dirtiest of dirtiest power plants.

They estimate that 25 people die per year from cancer and cardiac arrest in Albany County alone from the emissions caused by energy generating facilities, mostly coal fired power plants lacking pollution control. If there was somebody out there shooting 25 random suburbanites on the street, there would be a swat team and hundreds of police officers investigating. But power plants pollution? Not newsworthy, even though hospitals are filled with victims harmed by electricity generation.

National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary

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National Weather Service Watch Warning Advisory Summary

"The New York Sate Department of Environmental Conservation has issued an air quality health advisory for the following counties...

Dutchess...Ulster...Columbia...Greene...Schoharie...Albany...Rensselaer...Saratoga...Schenectady...Washington...Fulton...Montgomery...Warren...Hamilton...Northern Herkimer...Southern Herkimer.

Air quality levels in outdoor air are predicted to be greater than an air quality index value of 100 for ozone.

The air quality index...or AQI...was created as an easy way to correlate levels of different pollutants to one scale. The higher the AQI value, the greater the health concern.

When pollution levels are elevated...the New York State Department of Health recommends that individuals consider limiting strenuous outdoor physical activity to reduce the risk of adverse health effects. People who may be especially sensitive to the effects of elevated levels of pollutants include the very young and those with pre existing respiratory problems such as asthma or heart disease. Those with symptoms should consider consulting their personal physician."

May 2, 2018 3:01 pm Update

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Today, Albany has some of the worst air quality in many years with the air quality index at 77 at Loudonville Reservoir (and may get worse as the day progresses and tailpipe emissions are converted to smog under the heat of the sun). Which is bad, but it’s much better then was common on hot days back in the 1980s.

Currently 88 degrees at Albany Airport, which ties the May 2, 2001 record. It may break 90 before 5 PM. This will be first record high day since September 27, 2017 when it was 89 degrees — and today is the warmest day since then.