The #AirPollution in Minneapolis’s #EastPhillips is so bad today that even the EPA—which basically everyone agrees has far too lax particulate pollution standards, compared w modern evidence abt health effects—says is so bad that “sensitive groups” will harm their health by going outside
“Sensitive groups”: infants, the elderly, people with cardiovascular disease or diabetes or asthma…
12% of E Phillips has asthma
But #Minneapolis wants to INCREASE pollution there w #HiawathaCampusExpansion
The air quality in #Minneapolis’s #EastPhillips has been worse than Beijing for the last 24 hours
This is #AirPollution in #Minneapolis’s #Phillips (and some of #Seward) right now.
Covid didn’t win us the air quality standards that we deserve, but more of us understand what we’re living with all the time, and the increasing wildfires (and weather extremes) coming with the changing climate will make this worse and worse. So what are we going to do about it?
@wrigleyfield Longfellow must also be really bad tonight. I took the dog out, and I literally thought there was a fire next-door. It’s that hazy. And the odor was spent jet fuel from the airport, 6 miles away!
@daphsci Gross. Minneapolis/Hennepin really needs to address this. We’re going to keep getting air inversions, so what’s the plan for limiting emissions when they happen?
The most *minimal* thing they could do would be to request that employers let people work from home during this period to reduce transit emissions.
(Oh, and, you know, scrap the plan to radically worsen things in one of the state’s most polluted neighborhoods with the #HiawathaCampusExpansion…)
Instead, they’ve done…nothing?