alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to Environment@beehaw.orgEnglish · 10 months agoEVs are lowering Bay Area's carbon footprintnews.berkeley.eduexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up145arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squaretunetardis@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 months agoI’d be curious to know whether urban air quality in general is improving also?
minus-squareaveryminya@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up1·10 months agohttps://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/historical-air-quality-data/historical-data-by-year Comparing 2021 and 2022 it looks like there are marginal gains in quality, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this trend continued (if I’m reading it correctly of course)
minus-squareTehPers@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-210 months agoThose charts seem to be from SoCal. This might be a better reference for Bay Area: https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data/#/ Worth adding that Bay Area has manufacturing and refining. Not sure how much that affects air quality relative to cars.
I’d be curious to know whether urban air quality in general is improving also?
https://www.aqmd.gov/home/air-quality/historical-air-quality-data/historical-data-by-year
Comparing 2021 and 2022 it looks like there are marginal gains in quality, so I wouldn’t be surprised if this trend continued (if I’m reading it correctly of course)
Those charts seem to be from SoCal. This might be a better reference for Bay Area: https://www.baaqmd.gov/about-air-quality/current-air-quality/air-monitoring-data/#/
Worth adding that Bay Area has manufacturing and refining. Not sure how much that affects air quality relative to cars.