Urban Planning

Vehicle emissions significantly contribute to air pollution levels and emit a variety of pollutants known to be harmful to both human and environmental health. By implementing initiatives such as low-emission zones and encouraging the use of alternative forms of transport, we can reduce traffic-related air pollution.

The impacts of air pollution and climate change cannot be contained to one geographical area, making it essential for different levels of government — including local, state, and national agencies — to cooperate to mitigate these environmental crises.

Renewable sources of energy, like wind and solar, are an increasingly viable alternative to fossil fuels and have vast benefits for air quality and the climate.

While air quality can often be poor in urban areas, various innovative approaches have been developed to improve air quality in conjunction with air quality monitoring networks.

By recognizing the multitude of impacts that air quality has on other sectors, we can leverage the co-benefits that come with cleaner air to galvanize action.

Because cities play a major role in air quality and climate health, it is essential that they establish high-resolution air quality monitoring networks.

Climate change and air pollution are both global environmental crises with enormous health, economic, and environmental impacts — but also environmental justice issues.

By better understanding the relationship between air pollution, fossil fuels, and a changing climate, air quality co-benefits can be quantified to incentivize climate change action

With the signing of a series of Executive Orders on climate and the environment during his first weeks in office, Biden has reaffirmed his commitment to environmental justice.

The pandemic has created a weird test case of what might happen if humanity really reduced its fossil fuel-related emissions.