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Pollution 101

  • Pollution 101From One Breath Partnership
    Nitrogen oxide and volatile organic compounds emitted by cars, trucks, industrial facilities and other sources react together with sunlight to form ozone. Photo: Allyn West.

    What is ozone?

    By Catherine Fraser
    05.27.2020

  • Pollution 101From One Breath Partnership
    The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is TCEQ is proposing to quadruple the acceptable threshold for exposure to ethylene oxide. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.

    What is ethylene oxide?

    By Matt Tresaugue
    11.11.2019

  • Pollution 101From One Breath PartnershipEnvironmental Racism
    The ease with which polluting facilities are sited in communities of color is just one example of environmental racism. Photo: Karen Kasmauski.

    What is environmental racism?

    By Joy Semien
    07.8.2020

  • Pollution 101From One Breath Partnership
    Nearly all of Houston lives with levels of particle pollution above 10 micrograms per cubic meter — and many areas are above the current federal standard of 12.

    What is particulate matter?

    By Matt Tresaugue
    04.27.2020

  • Pollution 101From One Breath Partnership
    Benzene is one of the most commonly produced and most toxic chemicals in the U.S. Photo: Stephanie Young Merzel.

    What is benzene?

    By Allyn West
    11.1.2019

  • Pollution 101In the Media
    The health problems that result from long-term exposure to air pollution could make it harder for people to fight off the coronavirus when they are infected.

    Air pollution could be making the coronavirus more deadly

    By The Intercept
    03.19.2020

  • Pollution 101From One Breath Partnership
    The W. A. Parish plant near Houston is the second-largest source of sulfur dioxide in Texas. Photo: Allyn West.

    What is sulfur dioxide?

    By Torie Ludwin
    10.27.2020

  • Pollution 101From One Breath Partnership
    Air pollution prematurely kills about 7 million people worldwide every year. Photo: Allyn West.

    'Our cities can be so much better': A conversation about air pollution with Beth Gardiner

    By Allyn West
    12.12.2019

  • Pollution 101In the Media
    Air pollution in the media.

    There's more particulate matter in our air. And it's costing people their lives.

    By Washington Post
    10.23.2019

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