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We want to hear from residents of Cicero about their experiences with air pollution

We want to hear from residents of Cicero about their experiences with air pollution

MuckRock and the Cicero Independiente are also looking for volunteers who are interested in having a free air quality sensor installed outside their home or business. Fill out the form in the article for more information.

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Queremos escuchar a los residentes de Cicero sobre sus experiencias con la contaminación del aire.

Queremos escuchar a los residentes de Cicero sobre sus experiencias con la contaminación del aire.

MuckRock y Cicero Independiente también están buscando voluntarios que estén interesados ​​en tener un sensor de calidad del aire instalado fuera de su hogar o negocio. Complete el siguiente formulario para obtener más información.

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‘This is really concerning:’ Chicago air quality sensors show disparities across the city — and unexplained spikes in pollution

‘This is really concerning:’ Chicago air quality sensors show disparities across the city — and unexplained spikes in pollution

Nearly two years after the tech company Microsoft installed more than 100 air quality sensors atop bus shelters across Chicago, a MuckRock analysis of the data documents the neighborhood-by-neighborhood hotspots and disparities — and raises questions about how air pollution continues to affect the city’s fenceline communities.

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In California, unhealthy pollution from wildfire smoke has become dangerously common

In California, unhealthy pollution from wildfire smoke has become dangerously common

In 2010, the number of Californians living in areas exposed to at least one day of 100 micrograms of PM2.5 barely crossed 200,000. A decade later, that number increased to 4.5 million.

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Air Quality Access: How local government is planning (or not) to protect your air

Air Quality Access: How local government is planning (or not) to protect your air

In the late 1980s, an area of the Jurupa Valley in Riverside, California began a transformation that would turn it from a community of sprawling dairy farms to hub for enormous warehouses. David Danelski, then an investigative reporter for the Riverside-Press Enterprise, unraveled the details through public records on town planning and found one important document missing from projects approved by county officials for more than a decade: the environmental impact statement. Here are his tips on this and other key records requests you can file.

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