Air Pollution
Your car’s tires are swirling donuts of pollution – The Washington Post
2019 Largest Title V VOC Polluters in NY State
MODIS Terra – June 29 and June 30, 2023
Smokey skies.
Aqua – June 29, 2023 Afternoon
Wildfire smoke blankets Central NY, not as a bad locally in the Capital Region.
Notice the blocking on the east, trapping the smoke over CNY, while the Taconics had clouds. This was probably later in the evening yesterday, after the clouds moved to our east, which is why locally it was fairly clear for a while.
Smoke from Canadian Wildfires Reaches Europe
This is from multiple passes of NOAA-21 Suomni VIIRS so it's stitched together from different parts of June 27th.
New York’s Communities With 50 Largest Hazardous Air Polluters
Hazardous air pollutants, also known as toxic air pollutants or air toxics, are those 187 air pollutants that are known or suspected to cause cancer or other serious health effects, such as reproductive effects or birth defects, or adverse environmental effects. This interactive map shows the communities that host 50 largest hazardous air polluters based on the 2013 data (most recent available from the DEC). The communities hosting the largest HAP polluters are shown in red, lower on the list are blues. The biggest HAP emitters in the state are Alcoa Massena Operations (West Plant), Eastman Business Park, Reynolds Metals St Lawrence Reduction Plant, Lafarge Building Materials Inc and Morton Salt Inc.
More about Hazardous Air Pollutants: https://www.epa.gov/haps/what-are-hazardous-air-pollutants
Data Source: https://data.ny.gov/Energy-Environment/Title-V-Emissions-Inventory-Beginning-2010/4ry5-tfin/