Healthy Air Peabody
Steve Andrada, “Stop the Peabody Peaker Power Plant.”
Link for YouTube https://youtu.be/_Ur58nZO4oY
Link for Vimeo https://vimeo.com/794944943
Links to BCNS Facebook https://www.facebook.com/search/top?q=breathe%20clean%20north%20shore
BCNS online: https://breathecleannorthshore.org
BCNS Contact: https://breathecleannorthshore.org/contact/
Stop the Peaker http://CleanPowerCoalition.org
Healthy Air Peabody http://cleanpowercoalition.org/HealthyAirPeabody
Real time air quality map (Purple Air)
Breathe Clean North Shore Meetings on Zoom, alternate Tuesdays. Contact me and I will add you to the email invite list.
Contact:
Jerry Halberstadt Jerry (at) CleanPowerCoalition.org
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Allen, Adrienne, MD, MPH, "I am short of breath, I can't walk." Clean Power Coalition, August 8, 2021
Halberstadt, Jerry, Stop Pollution for Our Health
Halberstadt, Jerry, Stop Pollution to Protect Our Health & Climate
Landrigan, Philip J. and David Bellinger, "Air pollution is responsible for premature deaths in every Massachusetts city and town," BostonGlobe.com, August 8, 2022
Rodgers MPH, Kathryn, Pollution, People, and Powerplants: Health Burdens in Peabody, MA, November 1, 2022. Mass Climate Action Network
MassCleanAir at the Boston College Global Observatory Schiller Center outlines ways to combat air pollution, with a town-by-town mapping of health burdens.
Comprehensive list
American Chemical Society. "Tracking air pollution disparities -- daily -- from space." ScienceDaily. ScienceDaily, 22 August 2022.
Boston Public Schools Families for Safety Parents who are advocating for safety from COVID, environmental issues; hosting teach-ins in English and Spanish for community members to learn about school renovations with respect to both public health and climate chang Email families4covidsafety@gmail.com to get involved or sign up at https://bit.ly/FamCOSaSignup
CBS News, Global pollution kills 9 million people each year, study finds MAY 17, 2022
Climate One, Podcast and Transcript, Talk Isn’t Cheap: The Power of Conversation, March 15, 2024 [Katherine Hayhoe, Anand Giridharadas, others share ideas on how to connect with people who may have very different ideas ]
Global Greater Boston: Immigrants in a Changing Region
Ciurczak, Peter, Luc Schuster, and James Jennings, Great Migration to Global Immigration: A Profile of Black Boston, Boston Indicators, April 7, 2023
Clean Energy States Alliance, Building Equitable Practices & Programs: A Conversation with Energy Equity Leaders (Webinar)
Clean Energy Group’s Peaker Plant Mapping Tool
Durkin, Amanda et al, Establishing a Community Air Monitoring Network in a Wildfire Smoke-Prone Rural Community: The Motivations, Experiences, Challenges, and Ideas of Clean Air Methow’s Clean Air Ambassadors, Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2020, 17(22), 8393
Enos, Caroline, Research shows neighborhoods near new plant face high rates of health issues, The Salem News, September 21, 2022
Enos, Caroline, 'Our line in the sand:' Protesters 'die' on bridge to protest peaker plant, The Salem News, September 28, 2022
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Proposed Decision for the Reconsideration of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards for Particulate Matter (PM), January 6, 2023
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Air Sensor Loan Programs Examples of projects include monitoring for localized particulate matter (PM) concentrations in areas affected by wood smoke as well as monitoring local air quality in areas with environmental justice concerns and vulnerable populations that are sensitive to air pollution.
Fuller, Gary, Even low levels of air pollution can damage health, study finds, The Guardian, August 12, 2022
Giridharadas, Anand. The Persuaders: At the Front Lines of the Fight for Hearts, Minds, and Democracy Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. 2022.
Harrington, Kelly, Luc Schuster, and Anthony Capote, Immigration Research Initiative, Boston Indicators, February 14, 2024 [Lists top 5 origins of immigrants in each town or city]
HEI Panel on the Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution 2022. Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Selected Health Effects of Long-Term Exposure to Traffic-Related Air Pollution, Special Report 23. Boston, MA: Health Effects Institute [HEI is a nonprofit corporation chartered in 1980 as an independent research organization to provide high-quality, impartial, and relevant science on the health effects of air pollution.]
HEI Traffic Review Webinar: Health Effects of Traffic-Related Air Pollution, Health Effects Institute, Webinar recording July 16, 2022
Kuebler, Martin, Health groups call for fossil fuel nonproliferation treaty, DW.com, September 14, 2022
Landrigan, Philip J. and David Bellinger, "Air pollution is responsible for premature deaths in every Massachusetts city and town," BostonGlobe.com, August 8, 2022
Landrigan, P.J., Fisher, S., Kenny, M.E., et al. A replicable strategy for mapping air pollution’s community-level health impacts and catalyzing prevention. Environ Health 21,70 (2022).
MassCleanAir at the Boston College Global Observatory Schiller Center outlines ways to combat air pollution, with a town-by-town mapping of health burdens.
Mass Clean Air, Health Effect of Air Pollution in your Town (Map)
Mass Clean Air, Spreadsheet of town data
Mass Clean Air, Contacting Policy-Makers, The first step toward a Clean Air Massachusetts Provides a list of policies and actions that can reduce pollution; advocacy at the local and state levels.
Massachusetts Building Electrification Accelerator
Neslen, Arthur, Health groups call for global fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty, The Guardian.com, September 14, 2022
Power, Maria Belen, Sofia Owen, Ellin Reisner, Karl/Claire Müller and Staci Rubin, "Massachusetts needs to improve air quality in pollution hotspots (viewpoint)," MassLive, August 20, 2020 Urges adoption of the Air Quality Bill.
Rodgers MPH, Kathryn, Pollution, People, and Powerplants: Health Burdens in Peabody, MA, November 1, 2022. Mass Climate Action Network
Sigsgaard, Torgen and Barbara Hoffman, Assessing the health burden from air pollution: A broader approach to assessing the burden of disease from air pollution is required, SCIENCE, 4 Apr 2024, Vol 384, Issue 6691, pp. 33-34.
United States Census, QuickFacts, Peabody city, Massachusetts
WHO, Leading causes of death globally
Air Quality Monitors
Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) (19 monitors)
AirNow.gov
Breezometer
Detailed information at Peabody Square including historical data; select a different location for similar data.
IQAIR
IQ AIR provides data using the sources of Mass DEP, purple air, and IQ sensors to map Air Quality, PM2.5, NO2, and CO.
Plume Labs/AccuWeather
FLOW 2 was a hand-held, portable air quality monitor that gives readings on PM2.5, PM10, PM1, NO2, and VOC. It was a very useful tool, but is no longer being manufactured.
PurpleAir
From September 26, 2022 there are 7 air monitors in Peabody. Purple Air provides a choice of variables to display, including PM2.5.
PurpleAir: North Shore including Peabody, options are: apply conversion, EPA values, averaging and data reports in real time, updates every 2 minutes